Like the original “Avatar,” the follow-up's success is attributed to its generation-spanning appeal as well as the incentive to watch the film in premium and 3D formats. On Imax screens, the movie has crossed $250 million. That's more coinage than many films manage to earn in their entire theatrical runs.
The attention to detail and the effort put into creating this world paid off, as viewers were drawn into this new and fascinating place. It was the closest thing one would get to a fully-fledged universe, such as Lord of the Rings and Star Wars.
This process combines groundbreaking visual effects and immersive 3D environments. The film's visual effects team used a combination of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and practical effects to create the film's stunning world.
The film earned mostly positive reviews from audiences and critics alike and was a major box office success, earning over $2.3 billion and becoming the third highest-grossing movie of all time. Now, Deadline reports that Avatar: The Way of Water's actual profit is $531.7 million.
It was a major box office success, breaking multiple records, and grossing $2.320 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 2022, the highest-grossing film since the COVID-19 pandemic, and the third-highest-grossing film of all time.
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Was Avatar 2 a disappointment?
The biggest issue with "Avatar: The Way of Water" is its lackluster storyline. The plot is thin and predictable, with little to no character development. The film relies heavily on clichéd tropes and predictable twists, leaving the audience feeling underwhelmed and uninvested in the outcome.
While Avatar: The Way of Water opened below projections, it went on to defy expectations, outperforming most of the movies in the top 10 box office, proving the impressive performances of some of the biggest box office hits in history are more broken than people realize.
Filming wrapped in December 2020. In February 2024, Cameron gave the following update on Avatar 3: It's pretty much in the can. We're shooting pick-ups on 3, which is just filling in the last 2 or 3%, and we've also got live-action pick-ups in June, that's another couple percent.
Deadline also reported he made another $350 million from "Avatar's" unprecedented success at the box office, as well. According to Forbes' February 2023 report, Cameron has already made $95 million from "Avatar 2."
In a recent Twitter storm, critics of Avatar 2 accused James Cameron of racism and cultural appropriation, with some indigenous American groups calling for a boycott of the film.
And it turns out, there isn't just one simple answer but a combination of factors that led to it taking more than a decade for a new Avatar. For example, James Cameron wanted to make several sequels back-to-back, but that meant he needed to write all the scripts before he shot anything.
Moviegoers couldn't get enough of the film and the ticket sales rushed in from the start and didn't stop until it nearly reached $3 billion off a roughly $237 billion budget. Even after almost 14 years, Avatar's reign atop the highest-grossing films of all time list has rarely been contested. Read our review of Avatar.
In fact, the franchise's producer Jon Landau tweeted on Tuesday about the rumoured changes: "Each Avatar film is an exciting but epic undertaking that takes time to bring to the quality level we as filmmakers strive for and audiences have come to expect.
Her father is not a father, her father is another mother, Eywa, the Great Mother, the sentient life force of Pandora itself that exists in all things there, but is rarely understood. So essentially yes, Kiri was born from Eywa just like Anakin Skywalker was allegedly conceived by the Force itself and its midichlorians.
“We've completed most of the first act of Avatar 4 and there were logistical reasons why we needed to do that," the producer said. "We've designed most of the whole movie for Avatar 4 but we haven't actually filmed all of it — just the first act.”
Cameron has the rest of “Avatar 4” and the entirety of “Avatar 5” left to shoot. The third movie was originally going to arrive in 2024, but Disney delayed the franchise and scheduled “Avatar 3” for a Dec. 19, 2025, opening.
It was only when Lo'ak insisted that Neteyam agreed to the rescue. Neteyam risked his life and perished in order to save Lo'ak and Spider from Quaritch. As Jake himself said: "A son for a son". Spider wept for Neteyam as he died as well.
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The short and easy answer is, No. But, it's important to note that the Avatar franchise has brought dead characters back in the past. The Way of Water brought Quaritch back as a recombinant.
The biggest issue with "Avatar: The Way of Water" is its lackluster storyline. The plot is thin and predictable, with little to no character development.
"Many Hollywood blockbusters including Avatar 2 have underperformed in the Chinese mainland film market in recent years mainly because the storytelling is no longer appealing to Chinese moviegoers," Shi Wenxue, a film critic based in Beijing, told the Global Times.
But at least it makes you feel for them. Man, I can not remember a time I was sad at a movie. But Avatar 2 did it. I mean, not that much, about the same as in Avatar 1 but now there's multiple sad parts unlike in Avatar 1 which just hits you all at once.
