Some quite revealing statements from Cameron on the third Avatar movie came out today:



It is released on 20 December 2024, sharing the Christmas box office with Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Wicked.

I think it get close to the second film - perhaps even a little higher.

A year ago I would have said sub-400m gross but A2 has restored my faith in Camerons work and I think audiences have responded in the same way.

Fire will add another cinematic dimension for Cameron to wow us with - so that at least brings something new.

$700m at this point.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it tops whatever A2 ends up with

It will do on par with the second, unless it gets really badly received, which is possible

Probably higher opening than A2 slightly. Total around the same.

3 and 4 decline slightly domestically. 5 increases.

WW, if China is back on track, 3 will probably increase.

So the first movie was Earth tribe; then we met Water tribe in the sequel; next one is Fire tribe, and let me guess, Wind tribe? Which 'Avatar' franchise is this again?

James Cameron may be a really good director and storyteller but he does have a very limited, basic imagination.

My thoughts exactly.



It's fine if he's finding inspiration from Avatar though, going the element route is usually fun.

*shrug*

I’m having fun counting another man’s (Cameron) money.

Titled revelead to be: Fire and Ash. Sounds cool. Way better than The Seed Bearer.

Great title. Makes it very clear what were In for. Avatar on a fire planet.

$$$$$

Lol I knew it. He's just going round the classic four elements. The original Na'Vi were wind, The Way of Water is self-explanatory, this one is fire. Literally the plot of the other Avatar series. The most basic, predictable way of divying up the nations of Pandora.

He's a great director but post T2 James Cameron has the most basic imagination ever. Like seriously. Wind, Water, Fire, Earth (I'm sure the next one will be 'The Stone Tribe' or whatever). How many movies and series have that motif? Like give us something more original pls.

It's clearly going to be about another Na'vi tribe that live near a volcano and now the evil humans are trying to mine the planet's core for ultra rare space diamonds or whatever, and it threatens to disrupt the techtonic plates and eventually the volcano blows up in the climax. I bet you $100 at least 80% of that will be in the movie.

Cameron knows how simple people are. Simple makes money.

This is some good video game tactics. Sand or ice level for #4!

I think the fourth film will be green.

The first one wasn't really any colour, more just setting up the universe, the people, the concept. Second was blue. Third will be red/orange. So I think the fourth has to be rainforest and grasslands, so green. I suppose it could be sand (yellow) but I think Dune has pipped Avatar to that tone for a few years while it resets.

Which one is the time jump taking them to planet earth? 4 or 5
Whichever one will be green

This will make bank. Fire will allow for a different set of hopefully groundbreaking visuals. The not a big fan of the first - the second surprised me in both quality and box office. $700m is a good shot.