James Cameron Says ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Will Break Even, Paving Way For Future Sequels Release
deadline.comJames Cameron believes Avatar: The Way of Water will break even, and is confident Disney will proceed with the sequels. Had Avatar 2 not been a moneymaker, there was a question about whether Cameron would realize his full vision of three more sequels despite the fact that he’s been in production on them.
Cameron comments were on the latest episode of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace”. The 3x Oscar winning filmmaker also clarified statements he made to GQ magazine: He told them back in November that the sequel would need to be the third or fourth highest-grossing movie in history just to “break even”.
Those pics all grossed over $2 billion worldwide. Cameron told Wallace, “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.” Avatar: The Way of Water stands at $1.54 billion worldwide, having just passed Top Gun: Maverick as the top-grossing release of 2022.
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