Avatar 2

And so it begins. Thirteen years after Avatar arrived in movie theaters, conquered and continued to conquer the global box office as the highest-grossing ...

They then traveled to Tokyo and Seoul. Among the top opening markets, we’re anticipating a mix of China, France, the UK, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany and Brazil. All of those figures are at today’s rates, which have been hit hard by a strong dollar. [China also is getting 3,000 preview showings](https://deadline.com/2022/11/avatar-the-way-of-water-china-release-date-1235180610/) at 7 p.m. The original 2009 movie was 82% certified fresh. Domestic presales for Avatar: The Way of Water stand at an estimated $38M through Monday, double that of Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World: Dominion at the same point in time but behind Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which respectively opened to $181.3M and $187.4M. Arguably the next big movie on the calendar is, yup, Disney/Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania on February 17. Despite being hot on tracking throughout all demos, the comp for Avatar: The Way of Water, given its older-skewing fanbase, are legacy franchise sequels Top Gun: Maverick ($126.7M) and Jurassic World: Dominion ($145M), not the Marvel movies. Sony predicted that the domestic opening for the Marvel Studios title would be $130M, the town called it at $175M-$200M, and the movie came in at $260.1M. A great touch of irony is how Bob Iger, who orchestrated the Disney-Fox merger with the Avatar franchise being one of many spoils, [recently returned as CEO](https://deadline.com/2022/11/disney-bob-iger-returns-ceo-bob-chapek-out-1235178223/) of the Mouse House. RELATED: [The Way of Water](https://deadline.com/tag/the-way-of-water/) at $150M, and if the movie arrives at the low level, it’s not the end of the world.

So far, domestic pre-sales for the film total $38 million, which puts the film ahead of Top Gun: Maverick, the current highest-grossing movie of the year, but ...

Avatar: The Way of Water splashes into theaters on December 16. The first Avatar is fondly remembered by many for its groundbreaking use of stereoscopic 3D technology, which is why it's no surprise that audiences will be returning to Pandora in the same format as well. So far, domestic pre-sales for the film total $38 million, which puts the film ahead of Top Gun: Maverick, the current highest-grossing movie of the year, but behind Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Avatar: The Way of Water is a visual spectacle—just don't pay too much attention to the dialogue.

[cost around $250 million](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/avatar-2-budget-expensive-2-billion-turn-profit-1235438907/), is the first of four greenlit sequels. The Way of Water, estimated to have Sure, he won’t convince cynics who think his fantasy is just too hokey—because it is very hokey—but if you are even a tiny bit impressed by his vision, it’s nearly impossible not to succumb to the overwhelming details that fill the screen.

James Cameron finally completed Avatar: The Way of Water, which returns Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, and Stephen Lang to the Na'vi world of Pandora.

But the battle in the last third of The Way of Water is different. The back and forth of the masking at the top and bottom can be intrusive. It seems like Pandora’s creator would recognize that sometimes the best move is to leave well enough alone, instead of looking for ways to fix something that didn’t need fixing in the first place. The changes mean that the tempo of the action on screen looks either sped up or slowed down as the switches occur. The final act of this movie shows off a freeing attitude he’s never fully embraced before in his action — even action that’s strikingly similar, like the massive sinking ship sequence in Titanic. In The Way of Water, Cameron leans all the way into manic mayhem, smash-cutting from one outrageous image to the next. It involves a gargantuan sea beast coming in off the top rope in a way that left my theater cheering. Avatar: The Way of Water tells a simple but engaging story in an imaginative, beautiful environment. Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), reborn in a cloned Na’vi Avatar body, is leading the charge to kill that turncoat/insurgent Jake Sully, and won’t let anything stand in his way. Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron’s fundamentally enjoyable and exciting sequel to the 2009 blockbuster Avatar, is meant to represent a major technological advance in cinematic exhibition. The story setup is simple: Sky People (the rapacious, militarized humans of the Resources Development Administration) are back on Pandora after the events of Avatar, and this time, they want something even more unobtainable than the element unobtainium. [long-delayed](https://www.polygon.com/2017/3/10/14882944/avatar-2-sequels-delayed) 192-minute opus, which reportedly cost somewhere between [$250 million](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/avatar-2-budget-expensive-2-billion-turn-profit-1235438907/) and [$400 million](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avatar-the-way-of-water-box-office-china-release-1235268699/) to make, were held at theaters equipped to project the film in a high frame rate (HFR).

James Cameron's Avatar 2 has some incredibly beautiful shots, but fails to live up to its legacy as a bleeding edge spectacle.

Way of Water really gives the impression that what James Cameron is actually interested in with Pandora is the sort of thing you'd find in a National Geographic documentary rather than a blockbuster movie. The problem is that Jake Sully is about as engaging and likable as a piece of driftwood, and he and Saldana's chemistry as the central couple is about as charming as a carton of spoiled milk. The movie is at its best when it's pretending to be the prettiest screensaver you've ever seen in your life, and then crumples spectacularly the second it tries to make any of its lovingly rendered blue aliens tell anything that resembles a compelling story. t one point, it's because the Earth is dying and humans want to repopulate on Pandora, and at another, it's because there's been a new Unobtanium-flavored natural resource that humans want to mine (we won't spoil what it actually is, but trust us: it's a doozy). Just about all of the water and underwater effects are rendered immaculately, and there is some genuinely incredible animation at work to capture little micro expressions in the acting which make the Na'vi characters look and feel very real. To be fair, not all of Avatar 2 looks like it's buffered with artificial frames for that motion smoothing effect.

James Cameron co-writes and directs the sequel to 2009's Avatar starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana.

In Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron has brought Pandora back into the public consciousness with an awe-inspiring mountain of a movie. Things happen underwater, on the water, in the air, on a sinking ship, anywhere to give the scene a sense of awe. But more than any of that, it’s the way the technology compliments the actors and helps them create believable and emotive performances in such different bodies. And while all of this might make Avatar: The Way of Water sound more like a nature documentary than a Hollywood action blockbuster, don’t worry, James Cameron delivers that as well. The joy is in the discovery, and it’s never boring, even if at times it can be a tad drawn out. The basic story of Avatar: The Way of Water is simple. So the Sullys must learn the ways of the new tribe (led by two new characters, played by Cliff Curtis and Kate Winslet) in hopes to contribute and keep themselves safe, all while the threat of war looms somewhere else on Pandora. As a result, you become increasingly attached to the world and everyone and everything in it. While not quite on the same level as Aliens or T2 (at least on a single watch), The Way of Water is a sequel that expands and improves upon the original in almost every way. [James Cameron](https://gizmodo.com/james-cameron-explains-why-the-original-aliens-poster-i-1848196917), has made four narrative sequels in his career and two of those, [Aliens](https://gizmodo.com/moms-the-word-on-the-anniversary-of-james-camerons-alie-1847281734) and [Terminator 2: Judgment Day](https://gizmodo.com/how-terminator-2-judgment-day-changed-the-blockbuster-1798318855), are inarguably two of the best sequels of all-time. The mission to kill Jake Sully is led by Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), who died in the first film but is brought back here in a Na’vi body that has Quaritch’s memories. Where things get more complicated is that in the years since Jake became Na’vi, he and Neytiri have formed a family.

Early reviews for Avatar: The Way of Water have been released, and critics are praising James Cameron's long-awaited Avatar sequel for its visuals.

[Avatar: The Way of Water's three-hour-plus runtime](https://screenrant.com/avatar-2-runtime-long-good-character-flaw-fix/) is one of the movie's biggest pitfalls. Ultimately, it is up to each individual to make their opinions on the movie regardless of what the Avatar: The Way of Water reviews say. While not quite on the same level as Aliens or T2 (at least on a single watch), The Way of Water is a sequel that expands and improves upon the original in almost every way. But with "The Way of Water," Cameron is more focused on the beauty and grandeur of Pandora, a place that doesn't even exist. The film's marketing has teased portions of the action-packed finale by showing the Na'vi going to war with the RDA in a fiery water setting. It was only after Cameron was confident that technology would be able to make the water and VFX believably blend together. Now, Avatar: The Way of Water finally arrives, and guess what? “The Way of Water” is the magic of movies made manifest, a three-hour-plus epic that brings us to a new world and makes it thrillingly tactile in ways that no other film has done before. In terms of narrative sophistication and even more so dialogue, this $350 million sequel is almost as basic as its predecessor, even feeble at times. The filmmaker has spent more than 10 years developing the sequel to Avatar, and that passage of time created some doubt that the sequel would be worth the wait. The first trailers helped erase some of that doubt due to the impressive CGI displayed in Avatar 2's footage. Cameron, who co-wrote the script with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, returns to Pandora, offering viewers even more stunning visuals, a personal, more emotional story, and incredible underwater sequences that put every other film’s technical achievements to shame.

Riding high on tremendous advance booking, Avatar 2 is said to be already ahead of several biggies of the post-pandemic era. Read on!

[Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/user/Koimoi4Bollywood) Of course, a lot of things have changed since 2009 including the addition of new screens, but such an opening will surely set the momentum for a glorious run. This is not something record-breaking but is almost double or more than double of But the film is lagging behind Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness and Well, no one can assure you that, but one is for sure, one of the biggest box office starts is on its way! It is predicted that the film will earn more than double its prequel during the opening weekend.