James Cameron's Avatar to get four sequels - The message will still be the same

Saw the movie last week. Really enjoyed it. I'm a little disappointed that there weren't new fantasy environments to explore like the bioluminscent forest or floating mountains of the first movie, but I was way more invested in this one. When I saw the first movie in theaters, there were parts where I was bored and went to the bathroom. Here, I was really invested and didn't want to go to the bathroom for fear of missing a scene. Also didn't feel like it was 3 hours long. The characters were a lot more likeable.

Biggest disappointment was the soundtrack. It's serviceable but I can only recall a couple snippets from the movie. RIP James Horner. Supposedly the new composer was an assistant to James Horner, but the soundtrack just isn't as memorable as the first movie's. For a movie of this caliber (also spent... what? a decade in development?), the music should have top notch.

Looking forward to Avatar 3.
 
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Avatar 4 & 5 confirmed
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James Cameron Says ‘Avatar 2’ Is Profitable and He’ll Make the Sequels

According to the visionary director, 'The Way of Water' will "easily" pass the break-even point at the box office, and now he "can't wiggle out" of making more sequels.
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The giant blue cat eco-aliens will return: James Cameron says Avatar: The Way of Water will “easily” pass the break-even point at the box office and that he will indeed make more sequels to his fantasy hit.

The director was on this week’s episode of HBO Max’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? and pointed out his mega-budgeted sequel has crossed $1.5 billion at the the global box office (surpassing Top Gun: Maverick to become the highest-grossing film released in 2022).

“It looks like just with the momentum that the film has now that will easily pass our break even in the next few days, so it looks like I can’t wiggle out of this, I’m gonna have to do these other sequels,” Cameron said (with presumably some feigned reluctance, given his obvious dedication and enthusiasm for his franchise). “I know what I’m going to be doing the next six or seven years. The point is we’re going to be okay. I’m sure that we’ll have a discussion soon with with the top folks at Disney about the game plan going forward for Avatar 3, which is already in the can – we’ve already captured and photographed the whole film so we’re in extended post-production to do all that CG magic. And then Avatar 4 and 5 are both written. We even have some of 4 in the can. We’ve begun a franchise at this point. We’ve begun a saga that can now play out over multiple films.”
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Snekposter said:
That's really the most disappointing part here. This could have been Aliens meets Predator meets Vietnam (not Aliens vs. Predator, thank God), where mankind decides to resort to the Avatar project because the Na'vi guerillas are just that fucking good at murdering all of us because they're nine-foot tall killing machines with unbreakable carbon fiber bones and other weird-ass shit, but no, we get the worst, stupidest, dumbest environmentalist scripts ever with all of the humans constantly gripping idiot balls in order to make the Na'vi look good.

For the video game, just hire CryTek to slap together Crysis and the first FarCry with a fresh coat of paint.
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I'd buy that for a dollar
 
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Interestingly (or horrifyingly) there's been 36% inflation since 2009. Which means that to beat Avatar's original run box office, the sequel needs to hit around $3.5 billion within the next two months. [Obviously, this is very approximate, as I'm using US domestic inflation for global box office figures. But it should be close enough.]

More interestingly, it took Avatar 2 twenty-two days to hit $1.55 billion, as of yesterday. Adjusted for inflation, that's about $1 billion in 2009 dollars, in just 22 days.

Which seems impressive... however, the original film broke $1 billion in 17 days, five days faster. So as of right now, at this point in their respective runs, Avatar 2 is underperforming Avatar 1 by about 23%. And that's with next to no competition.
 
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WhiskeyJack said:
Interestingly (or horrifyingly) there's been 36% inflation since 2009. Which means that to beat Avatar's original run box office, the sequel needs to hit around $3.5 billion within the next two months. [Obviously, this is very approximate, as I'm using US domestic inflation for global box office figures. But it should be close enough.]

More interestingly, it took Avatar 2 twenty-two days to hit $1.55 billion, as of yesterday. Adjusted for inflation, that's about $1 billion in 2009 dollars, in just 22 days.

Which seems impressive... however, the original film broke $1 billion in 17 days, five days faster. So as of right now, at this point in their respective runs, Avatar 2 is underperforming Avatar 1 by about 23%. And that's with next to no competition.
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Does this imply that Cameron spent less on Avatar 2 compared to the first film?
 
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I for one am enthusiastic to find out what the fire titties will be like

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So as of right now, at this point in their respective runs, Avatar 2 is underperforming Avatar 1 by about 23%. And that's with next to no competition.
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That's actually impressive because there's nothing like the 3D gimmick fad this time around.
 
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