‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Footage Screened For China Film Group With Surprise Greeting From James Cameron
deadline.comExecutives from China Film Group were recently treated to a screening of footage from Disney/20th Century Studios’ Avatar: The Way Of Water, receiving a surprise greeting from filmmaker James Cameron in the process.
China Daily reported the news which Deadline has confirmed. Cameron beamed in with a video to say “thank you” in Mandarin and noted, “With the first Avatar, we set out to push the limits of the big screen.
With the new Avatar films, we’re pushing those limits even further.”China is a massive market for Avatar. The original film made over $200M there way back in 2010, and a 2021 reissue saw another $58M.
This helped push the Na’vi past Avengers: Endgame to reclaim the crown of highest-grossing film of all time at the global box office.After so much uncertainty over Hollywood releases in the PRC this past year, might this local teaser for China Film Group mean Avatar 2 is more likely to get a local date?
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