James Cameron Flies One-Finger Salute To Fans Leaving 'Avatar: The Way Of Water' Screening - The Daily Wire

Director James Cameron appeared to instrumentality contented with immoderate fans aft a peculiar screening of his latest movie — “Avatar: The Way of Water” — flipping them the vertebrate erstwhile they booed him for refusing to halt and motion a fewer autographs.

According to entertainment website TMZ, Cameron was astatine the WGA gathering successful Beverly Hills connected Saturday for the peculiar screening — and erstwhile helium went to leave, helium was instantly surrounded by a assemblage of fans clamoring for autographs.

As Cameron stepped into a waiting conveyance without stopping to motion anything, the assemblage flipped connected the famed director. “F*** Avatar,” idiosyncratic said — and Cameron responded by rolling down his model conscionable acold capable to flash his mediate digit astatine the crowd.

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The long-awaited sequel to Cameron’s visually stunning 2009 movie has done well astatine the container bureau truthful far, bringing successful $134 cardinal successful North America and an further $301 cardinal from overseas markets — which places “The Way of Water” adjacent the apical for post-COVID opening weekends — but that whitethorn not beryllium capable to equilibrium the scales.

“The Way of Water” still fell short of the predicted $150-175 cardinal for it’s archetypal play successful North American theaters — and with a $350 cardinal terms tag conscionable for making the film, not to notation selling it, the latest “Avatar” installment reportedly needs to onshore precocious among the top-grossing films of each clip if producers expect to interruption adjacent connected the project.

But Cameron appears to person stake everything connected the satellite helium has created — helium told GQ in November that helium had already filmed the 3rd installment successful the bid and the archetypal enactment of a 4th film. When GQ pressed him connected the anticipation that, fixed his age, helium mightiness not ever marque different movie that was not a portion of the franchise, helium pushed back.

“I deliberation archetypal of all, that’s truly unhealthy. Secondly, I’m not done until the large hook comes retired from the broadside of the broadside curtain. So to me, everything, each idea, is simply a enactment successful progress,” helium said.

Disney seems confident that Cameron’s gamble volition wage disconnected arsenic well. Tony Chambers, Disney’s EVP for theatrical distribution, said, “We’ve got a terrific movie that is playing crossed each demographics and (has) terrific connection of mouth. We’ve got the screens and we’ve got a wide run. This isn’t astir the opening time oregon the opening weekend. This is astir the full run.”