To be profitable, Avatar 2 has to do just as well as Titanic

James Cameron has spent big on the sequel to his 2009 masterpiece… But to match its success, viewers still need to be on the date.

In less than a month we will finally find out the movie we’ve been waiting for 13 years. THIRTEEN YEARS. But if the pressure is so strong on the shoulders of James Cameron, it is also for a history of wallets. the balance of the film implies that the latter a box office hitat risk of turning economic fiasco…

A $2 billion box office

In an interview for HQJames Cameron – to whom we owe small auteur films (just kidding, eh) like it titanic, terminator or Avatars entrusted his concerns less than three weeks before the sequel’s release on the planet Pandora.

The director opened all doors to finance Avatar 2: The Water Way. According to Hollywood Reporters, the budget of this highly anticipated sequel would be between 350 and 400 million dollars. “Mad Money”to use James Cameron’s expression.

The latter has done its calculations and the least we can say is that the bar is high. Indeed, to ensure that the studios continue to fund the sequels ofAvatars up to the fifth work, “It should be cinema’s third or fourth highest-grossing film. This is our breakeven point.”. As a reminder, the director plans to release a new episode ofAvatars every other Christmas until 2028.

Since Avatar, there has been Covid and streaming…

It’s ironic: to ensure the continuity of his saga, James Cameron will have to do as well as his performance in 1998 in 2009. Indeed, the director is already busy two places in the top 3 of the most profitable films in historywith Avatars And titanic. Between two, Avengers: Endgame by the Russo Brothers (2019) reached the 2.7 billion box office receipts.

Self Avatars almost reached the 3 billion dollars – suggesting good numbers for the sequel, its director’s concerns remain valid. Indeed, the world has had time to change Since 2009 : the explosion of streaming Therefore pandemic taken care of siphon the halls. James Cameron is far from ignoring it:

” the market could decide it it’s over for us in three months, or almost finished. It’s like, “Okay, let’s wrap up the story with the third movie, and let it go if it’s not profitable.”

Since we wrote these films, the world has changed. There were two upheavals: the pandemic and the rise of streaming. Or conversely, maybe we’ll be able to remind people of what a cinematic experience is. This is the purpose of this film. Now the question is, how many people still give a fuck?

we have can’t wait to find out the film and in theaters on December 14thand we want to say: courage James, never two without three.