James Cameron says ‘Avatar 2’ will ‘easily’ break even at the box office

Los Angeles, Jan 7 : Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron said that Avatar: The Way of Water will turn the profit it needs in order to get the remainder of his franchise sequels made.The director, who was speaking on this weeks episode of Whos Talking to Chris Wallace?, went viral in November, after telling GQ magazine that the The Way of Water was so expensive to make that it would have to "be the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history" just to break even," reports Variety.

The sequel has already earned over $1.5 billion worldwide to surpass Top: Gun Maverick as the highest-grossing movie of 2022."It looks like with the momentum that the film has now that well easily pass our break even in the next few days, so it looks like I cant wiggle out of this and Im gonna have to do these other sequels," Cameron said.

"I know what Im going to be doing the next six or seven years."Cameron added about the film turning a profit: "The point is were going to be okay.Im sure that well have a discussion soon with with the top folks at Disney about the game plan going forward for Avatar 3, which is already in the can - weve already captured and photographed the whole film, so were in extended post-production to do all that CG magic.

""And then Avatar 4 and 5 are both written.We even have some of 4 in the can.Weve begun a franchise at this point.Weve begun a saga that can now play out over multiple films.

"When Cameron said that The Way of Water would need to become "the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history, just to "break even", it appeared he was referring to the $2 billion mark.The director clarified his comment to Chris Wallace, saying: "I never actually gave it a number.I said it would has to be among the highest-grossing films in history and somebody else applied that number and it got picked up.The number is actually less."Sources have told Variety that the movies break-even point was set at roughly $1.4 billion, a figure the movie has already crossed.Insiders told Variety this week that the movie is going to generate a box office total of at least $1.825 billion, though $2 billion certainly remains in reach.Either way, Cameron says the film will be profitable enough to warrant the sequels.

So what can audiences expect to see as the Avatar franchise moves forward? Cameron previously told Frances 20 Minutes that Avatar 3 will explore "different cultures from those I have already shown," adding, "The fire will be represented by the people.I want to show the Navi from another angle because, so far, I have only shown their good sides.

""In the early films, there are very negative human examples and very positive Navi examples," the director continued."In Avatar 3, we will do the opposite.

"Producer Jon Landau told Gizmodo that once the Avatar franchise reaches Avatar 5," the story will feature some Navi characters coming to Earth.He said: "In (Avatar 5) there is a section of the story where we go to Earth.And we go to it to open peoples eyes, open Neytiris eyes, to what exists on Earth.

Earth is not just represented by the RDA.""Just like youre defined by the choices you make in life, not all humans are bad.Not all Navi are good.And thats the case here on Earth.

And we want to expose Neytiri to that."dc/fs/kvd #James #Cameron #Avatar #easily #break #Jan #Los Angeles #Disney.