Thirteen years after James Cameron released the highest-grossing film of all time, "Avatar", the filmmaker finally premiered its long-awaited sequel in London on Tuesday.

New "Avatar" film gets rare China release

November 23, 2022 12:02 pm

The long-awaited sequel to James Cameron's blockbuster "Avatar", will be released in mainland Chinese cinemas on Dec. 16, 20th Century Studios announced on Wednesday on its official Weibo account, according to the report of Reuters.

The title of the much-awaited sequel to James Cameron’s Avatar has been revealed at CinemaCon. The film is called Avatar: The Way of Water. Footage from the science-fiction film was also screened at the event, and as per reports, viewers were provided with 3D glasses. It appears that as with the original 2009 film, Cameron is going to set visual benchmarks with the sequels as well. Deadline reported that the footage showed different regions of Pandora, an Earth-like habitable extrasolar moon of the gas giant Polyphemus from the Alpha Centauri system, which was also the setting of the original film. The footage also had shots of the Na’vi interacting with aquatic mammals like whales.

Filming the sequel of James Cameron’s sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar” will bring hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars to New Zealand after it ended its coronavirus outbreak, the film’s producer told media as production resumed on Monday.

James Cameron says ‘Avengers: Endgame’ should enjoy its moment under the spotlight but when ‘Avatar 2’ comes, he will reclaim the top spot of the highest grossing feature film.

James Cameron has teased the possibility of more films in the ‘Terminator’ franchise, but the filmmaker said they will only happen if the upcoming installment ‘Dark Fate’ performs well at the box office.

Ace Hollywood director James Cameron is set to head the interesting project for National Geographic titled 'Mission Ocean X' which will follow a groundbreaking ocean exploration mission. The 'Titanic' director is no stranger to the deep, having dived down to the Mariana Trench in a submarine in 2012, among other aquatic adventures.

Filmmaker James Cameron has no bad blood with the Avengers, even though “Endgame” has eclipsed “Titanic’s” worldwide record and bumped the 1997 blockbuster to third place. Cameron tweeted a note Wednesday to Marvel president Kevin Feige and its employees congratulating the company for its success. Cameron writes that an iceberg sank the real Titanic, but it took the Avengers to sink his “Titanic.” The accompanying image shows the Titanic crashing into a massive Avengers logo.