Avatar 2 Reportedly Needs $2 Billion to Break Even

Here’s one thing you most likely don’t wish to hear if you happen to’re a high-powered film govt for Avatar producer twentieth Century or their new company overlords at Disney: director James Cameron to calling his personal sequel, The Way of Water, “the worst business case in movie history.” But that’s apparently what he did!

According to a report by Variety, Cameron stated the long-in-development (and probably long-anticipated?) Avatar sequel wants “to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history. That’s your threshold. That’s your break even.” That would imply The Way of Water must earn somewhere between Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ $2.07 billion field workplace and Cameron’s personal Titanic, which at present sits at $2.2 billion.

The excellent news for these execs is that the primary Avatar film is the all-time, worldwide field workplace champ with an astonishing $2.9 billion to its identify, so The Way of Water cracking the $2 billion mark is on no account not possible. The dangerous information is that planning on a film making $2+ billion looks as if the peak of hubris, which could be very a lot on model for Cameron however certainly makes these execs sit up bolt-upright in the course of the night time, screaming on the nightmare of all these greenback indicators getting flushed down the bathroom.

Avatar is so bizarre in that it was—is—the highest-grossing film of all time, however left nearly no popular culture imprint just like the Star Wars and Marvel franchises. Does that imply folks obtained their fill of blue cat folks again in 2009, or have they been quietly slavering for extra? We’ll see when The Way of Water lastly comes into existence on December 16, however relaxation assured even when it bombs, Cameron appears deadset on making Avatar 3.

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