Overview
- Early industry tracking points to a $100 million–$130 million U.S. opening weekend for Avatar: Fire and Ash, with a commonly cited $110 million estimate, below 2022’s The Way of Water debut.
- James Cameron says he is prepared to end the film series if the threequel doesn’t generate enough profit, and he would not hand the director’s chair to another filmmaker.
- If the series stops here, Cameron says a single unresolved thread would be addressed in a book to provide closure.
- Disney CEO Bob Iger privately praised the film as “magnificent” in a studio screening, and Cameron says the cut was shortened to about 3 hours 15 minutes.
- The threequel opens December 19, 2025, with a premium-format push and a darker chapter that introduces the Ash People.