‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Runtime Sails Past Three Hours - Hollywood Reporter

Be prepared for a agelong soak.

James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has a runtime befitting of the 13-year hold for the sequel, astir 3 hours and 10 minutes, sources archer The Hollywood Reporter.

Avatar 2 hopes to articulation an elite nine of longer Hollywood tentpoles that person done blockbuster concern successful theaters, including Avengers: Endgame (three hours and 2 minutes) and Cameron’s Titanic (three hours and 14 minutes). The 2 films fertile No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, connected Comscore’s database of the top-grossing movies of each clip astatine the worldwide box office, not adjusted for inflation.

Cameron’s archetypal Avatar, released successful December 2009, remains No. 1 each these years later. That movie was immoderate 29 minutes shorter than the sequel, oregon 2 hours and 41 minutes.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, movies person gotten longer, with galore Hollywood lawsuit pics moving implicit 2 hours and 30 minutes, which, by accepted standards, is considered lengthy. (One objection was Sony’s container bureau sensation Spider-Man: No Way Home, which came successful conscionable nether the ligament astatine 2 hours and 28 minutes.)

This inclination volition proceed passim the remainder of the year. December tentpole Babylon, from Paramount and filmmaker Damien Chazelle, runs astatine slightest 3 hours, insiders archer THR. And Marvel and Disney’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which opens Nov. 11, is 2 hours and 41 minutes. Matt Reeves’ The Batman, released earlier this year, ran 2 hours and 55 minutes.

A movie’s moving clip includes credits, which tin instrumentality up arsenic overmuch arsenic 10 minutes.

20th Century and Disney, location of The Way of Water, haven’t yet released an authoritative runtime for the sequel, but the movie’s magnitude began leaking retired erstwhile it received an authoritative rating. (In the U.S., the movie is rated PG-13.) Some theaters inadvertently listed the moving clip connected their websites erstwhile posting the rating.

Disney, which inherited the Avatar franchise erstwhile buying up 20th Century Fox, declined comment.

In aboriginal September, Cameron beamed successful from New Zealand astatine the D23 to showcase fractional a twelve scenes from The Way of Water, which the filmmaker besides produced alongside his longtime Lightstorm spouse Jon Landau. Stars Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang were successful idiosyncratic astatine the convention. Much of the footage showed disconnected Cameron’s immersive underwater work.

Not agelong aft D23, Disney and 20th Century issued a remastered mentation of the archetypal Avatar in bid to premier audiences for the sequel. The rerelease grossed an awesome $76 million-plus astatine the planetary container office, bringing the film’s existent gross to much than $2.92 billion.

Way of Water once again centers connected Worthington’s Sully and Saldaña’s Na’vi quality Neytiri. It picks up a decennary aft the archetypal and follows their family, with further stars, including franchise newcomers Vin Diesel and Kate Winslet.

Avatar: The Way of Water opens successful North America Dec. 16, timed to its planetary rollout.