Avatar 2

2022 - 12 - 16

James Cameron James Cameron

How Much <i>Avatar: The Way of Water</i> Cost—And How Much It ... (TIME)

The big-budget film hits theaters globally today, and with its gigantic price tag, it has to become one of the highest-grossing movies of all time to break even ...

It also got the green light to [premiere in China](https://fortune.com/2022/12/10/avatar-2-china-release-profit-james-cameron-movie-box-office/), which is never a given for Hollywood movies given the criteria they need to meet [to be released there](https://time.com/4649913/china-remaking-global-film-industry/), and on the conservative side, Variety estimates that “initial returns [from Chinese cinemas] could reach $100 million by Sunday” in addition to the $22 million in advance sales. [FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Charged With Fraud](https://time.com/6240579/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-arrested-bahamas/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20221213)by SEC After Arrest in the Bahamas [an interview with Total Film](https://www.gamesradar.com/avatar-3-james-cameron-box-office-way-of-water-interview/), Cameron said that the franchise will end with Avatar 3 if the second one underperforms at the box office. [reported to have cost](https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/avatar-way-of-water-box-office-opening-weekend-projections-1235459227/) Disney $350 million, according to Variety. Avatar: The Way of Water needs to make $1.49 billion to clinch the top spot for 2022, and it There are a multitude of reasons why it cost so much money and took so much time to make the second Avatar movie. That puts it ahead of early projections for Top Gun: Maverick, which currently ranks as the most successful movie this year. Reviews aside, it remains to be seen how the movie will perform and if it will reach the heights of its predecessor. “For the sequels, Cameron wanted to use the same motion capture tech for actors while they were submerged underwater, an unheard-of feat that required years to engineer a solution.” Cameron also decided to film the second and third movies together, which took three years to complete. This, on top of the time it took for post-production, all adds up to the 13-year wait. But if its current rating of 80% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes is any indication, a majority ultimately did enjoy the sequel for the visual spectacle that it is. Domestic box office projections are strong and reviews sway positive in general, but the coming days will offer a better sense of whether it’s on track to meet its lofty ambitions.

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Disney's 'Avatar' Sequel Takes In $17 Million in Preview Ticket Sales (Bloomberg)

The film generated an additional $50.4 million in international markets in its first two days, Disney said in a statement Friday.

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If You Forgot What Happened in Avatar, We Have Good News for You (Slate Magazine)

This move was attempted as a last-ditch effort to save the life of the lead scientist, Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), in the first film, but it was ...

Avatar 2 is perfectly enjoyable without the context of the first film, and there are clearly, as you can see above, some questions you might have that even the first film doesn’t answer. In The Way of Water, she oversees RDA activity on Pandora, activity she blames Sully for hindering; it’s she who calls for his execution. In the comic, Socorro dies during battle and, after the Na’vi defeat the humans, Miles is too small to return to earth in a cryopod, so he is left behind and raised alongside the few human stragglers and the Na’vi on Pandora. Edie Falco, who plays General Frances Ardmore, was not in the first film, but was introduced in the comics. Miles “Spider” Socorro (Jack Champion) is a retconned character who was first seen in the comic Though he wasn’t in the first film, the comic explains that Spider was born on the RDA colony base to Quaritch and Paz Socorro, an RDA pilot who never appears in Avatar 1. And if she died, how did the circumstances allow her to give birth to her 14-year-old daughter, Kiri (also played by Sigourney Weaver), in Avatar 2? In the first movie, Jake Sully was a paraplegic former Marine who agreed to join the Avatar Program, part of the Resources Development Administration (RDA), an incredibly powerful non-governmental human organization that wanted to mine Pandora for “unobtanium”—an energy-conducting mineral that had become highly valuable, given the depletion of Earth’s natural resources. [take the public’s judgment to heart](https://www.yahoo.com/now/james-cameron-doesnt-care-think-230000574.html), has decided he has a few opuses left in the [motion-capture water tank](https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/13/21257520/avatar-2-cast-water-tank-image-behind-the-scenes), starting with the second film in this series, Avatar: The Way of Water. When was the eternal youth whale serum discovered, and how long did it take to prove its effects, sell it to potential buyers, and establish the infrastructure to effectively farm it in the Pandoran ocean-wilds? Though avatars are remotely controlled by humans, it is possible—with the help of the Na’vi who can channel their deity, Eywa, through the Tree of Souls—for a human to transfer their consciousness permanently into an avatar body. Avatars are used to help humans explore Pandora (a moon in the Alpha Centauri star system) without breathing equipment, as the atmosphere on Pandora is toxic to humans.

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'Avatar 2' Cast: What 'The Way of Water' Cast Really Looks Like (Variety)

In the original “Avatar,” actors such as Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez and Joel David Moore all appeared on screen in ...

“He’s a rebel, sort of a guy who gets in trouble and a screw-up in that way,” Dalton Filip Geljo plays Aonung, a young male hunter and free diver of the Metkayina who happens to be Tonowari and Ronal’s son. “She does not see herself as the youngest,” the actor told Variety. “The family might be protective of her, but she sees that as underestimation. “Even in the face of grave danger, and with an unborn baby on board, she still joins her people and fights for what she holds most dear: her family and their home.” “To get to see yourself in the film… “But we were really led by a terrific team of professionals who were with us every step of the way, making sure that we were as safe as one can possibly be when one is doing a knife fight 25 feet below the surface. It’s a relatively straightforward reveal in “The Way Water,” but still one that’s best to discover in theaters. “Doing the water work was challenging and difficult,” he “I got to work with my idol at a very early stage of my career,” she said. Jake is the leader of the Pandora forest tribe, known as the Omaticaya people. In the original “Avatar,” actors such as Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez and Joel David Moore all appeared on screen in their own bodies for significant amounts of screen time.

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Avatar 2 Ending Explained: James Cameron Plays All the Hits! (Den of Geek)

James Cameron makes the grand finale of Avatar: The Way of Water into a visually dazzling victory lap full of easter eggs and homages…

When the rest of the Sullys go down with the ship, with the parents resigning themselves to a watery grave just as Ed Harris did in The Abyss, an almost otherworldly force of nature is summoned and a glowing sentience is manifested by Kiri. For in both True Lies and Avatar 2, it all comes down to the baddie kidnapping the hero’s little girl. The one to embody this in Avatar: The Way of Water is unsurprisingly Neytiri. However, what they find at the bottom of the ocean is something altogether more powerful: a sentient godlike race of aliens that the film’s scientists call NTIs (non-terrestrial intelligence). As bitter as it is losing Neteyam, it’s a bit of a gift for Saldaña who was mostly relegated to the background of Avatar 2 as the next generation of Na’vi took centerstage. The reason Jake and Neytiri, and for that matter the remainder of their biological children, are alive at the very end though is more of a nod to another movie: The Abyss (1989). Of course the most obvious easter egg in the Avatar 2 finale is how so much of it resembles Titanic. Before Jake and Neytiri learn of Kiri’s kidnapping, they have already entered the deepest shadow of grief; they have suffered the death of a child. Quaritch (Stephen Lang) has slaughtered the gentle whale-like creatures of Pandora’s deep seas in order to bring the coastal Na’vi out for a fight—and to lure Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) to his death. Because don’t be fooled, the ending of Avatar: The Way of Water is a visceral callback to nearly every other movie Cameron ever made. Perhaps more importantly to the industry, too, they were all magnificent hits with Titanic and Avatar each spending a minimum of nine consecutive years at the top of the “Highest Grossing Movies of All Time” list. And the good [Terminator](https://www.denofgeek.com/terminator/).

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'Avatar 2: The Way Of Water' Review: A Major Disappointment, Bro (Forbes)

I didn't see Avatar: The Way Of Water on an IMAX 3D screen because the nearest IMAX to where I live is at the Grand Canyon and they don't show this kind of ...

I tweaked the new version that Austin Kleon came up with that replaced the fourth image of the man sitting up with a smile in his face (#4) with the man sitting back in his chair expressionless (#3). But then I would have had to watch it again to pen this review, and that would be . Ultimately, Avatar: The Way Of Water is just not all that good or cerebral or exciting. I would have loved it if this were an adventure movie, with Jake and his family heading out into the wide, wild world and facing struggles that had nothing to do with the human colonizers. But the bad guys are coming with their guns and their bombs and their bombs and their guns. But even if that is how kids in the US talk in 2022—it isn’t, not to this degree—it makes no sense on an alien planet. And the Navi—a crude analog for the indigenous people of our own world—remain the Noble Savage trope they were in the last film, only less interesting now. It’s a retread of the first film. I didn’t see Avatar: The Way Of Water on an IMAX 3D screen because the nearest IMAX to where I live is at the Grand Canyon and they don’t show this kind of movie on that screen (even if they did it’s being renovated until next Spring). It’s arrogant and self-indulgent and I think the novelty that made that okay in the first film has worn off for audiences, or at least it has for me. Some of the fights—while too long—were exciting and action-packed and had cool special effects. - That’s the best way I can describe Way Of Water.

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Here's Where to Watch and Stream 'Avatar: The Way of Water' Online (GoodHousekeeping.com)

The new James Cameron movie 'Avatar: The Way of Water' stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana. Here's where to watch and stream 'Avatar 2' online at home.

Here's what to know about where to watch and stream Avatar: The Way of Water online. With this in mind, you'll probably be able to start watching it the beginning of March 2023. There is also the option to bundle Disney+ with either Hulu and/or ESPN+, which starts at a rate of $9.99 per month. So, where can you watch and stream the new Avatar movie? Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña return as Jake Sully and Neytiri, who are now the leaders of the Omaticaya Clan. Set 15 years later, the highly anticipated film welcomes familiar faces, new characters and even surprise actors who have previously worked with James (Sigourney Weaver from Alien and Kate Winslet from Titanic).

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