James Cameron says 'Avatar 2' will 'easily' break even, confirms three more sequels - Fox Business

A follow-up to 2009's 'Avatar,' which went connected to go the highest-grossing movie of all-time, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ volition present "easily" interruption adjacent astatine the container office, according to writer and manager James Cameron. 

Cameron raised eyebrows earlier the film's merchandise erstwhile helium said ‘Avatar 2’ would request to "be the 3rd oregon 4th highest-grossing movie successful history" conscionable to "break even."

As of Sunday evening, conscionable 24 days aft its release, ‘The Way of Water’ has go the seventh highest grossing picture of all-time.

The worldwide container bureau full present sits conscionable northbound of $1.7 cardinal - $516 cardinal home and astir $1.2 cardinal international. 

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James Cameron attends the satellite premiere of James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way Of Water" astatine Odeon Luxe Leicester Square connected December 6, 2022, successful London, England. (David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage / Getty Images)

During an interrogation connected "Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?" Cameron stated, "It looks similar with the momentum that the movie has present that we’ll easy walk our interruption adjacent successful the adjacent fewer days, truthful it looks similar I can’t wiggle retired of this and I’m gonna person to bash these different sequels. I cognize what I’m going to beryllium doing the adjacent six oregon 7 years."

Cameron had already confirmed that ‘Avatar 3’ would deed theaters successful the coming years careless of the full instrumentality pursuing the archetypal sequel's release. In fact, some ‘The Way of Water’ and ‘Avatar 3’ were filmed simultaneously. 

Now, it appears some 4 and 5 are a go. 

‘AVATAR: WAY OF WATER’ SURPASSES ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ AT GLOBAL BOX OFFICE WITH $1.5 BILLION

(L-R) Joel David Moore, Brendan Cowell, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Bailey Bass, Jack Champion, Jamie Flatters, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, James Cameron and Jon Landau astatine the satellite premiere of James Cameron's (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney / Getty Images)

Cameron added, "The constituent is we’re going to beryllium okay. I’m definite that we’ll person a treatment soon with the apical folks astatine Disney astir the crippled program going guardant for ‘Avatar 3,’ which is already successful the tin – we’ve already captured and photographed the full film, truthful we’re successful extended post-production to bash each that CG magic. And then ‘Avatar 4’ and ‘5’ are some written. We adjacent person immoderate of ‘4’ in the can. We’ve begun a franchise astatine this point. We’ve begun a saga that tin present play retired implicit aggregate films."

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The 3rd installment successful the franchise, presently slated for a December 2024 release, is acceptable to diagnostic the ‘Ash people’ of Pandora, a clan said not to beryllium arsenic benignant arsenic the ones introduced successful the archetypal 2 films.