News culture “1 minute of film per day” At this rate, James Cameron’s Avatar 3 will be finished on time!
James Cameron isn’t ready to leave Pandora. The Canadian director is currently filming four films before he can hypothetically pass the torch. He is also in the middle of filming “Avatar 3,” which is going smoothly against all expectations. Maybe it will even be finished on time.
The “Avatar 2” phenomenon.
Science fiction fans and followers of the Na’vi people have waited 13 years to return to the planet Pandora and finally learn about the life of Jake Sully and his new family. Avatar: The Way of Water was released on December 14, 2022 in France and simultaneously in the rest of the world. The film ran for 21 weeks in French cinemas and received a total of 14 million admissions in our country alone. International, James Cameron’s feature film grossed $2.32 billion, which reimburses between 5 and 6.5 times the amount incurred by the studios (from 350 to 460 million excluding marketing costs). This astronomical result makes Avatar 2 the third-biggest box office success of all time, just behind Avengers: Endgame and Avatar with $2.8 billion and $2.92 billion, respectively.
Avatar 3 on track
The information was communicated long before Avatar: The Way of Water was released in theaters. James Cameron wouldn’t wait another decade to return to Pandora. Filming on Avatar 2 was still ongoing when production on Avatar 3, Avatar 4 and Avatar 5 beganall without exception produced by the master of science fiction… James Cameron himself. The release of the third Na’vi adventure is scheduled for December 2025, while the fourth and fifth are scheduled for December 2029 and 2031.
While filming with the actors has long been completed, the filmmaker behind “Terminator, Aliens and Abyss” and his teams are currently responsible for filming the so-called “virtual” part with an equally virtual camera. The exhibition on “The Art of James Cameron” organized at the Cinémathèque française was an opportunity for our colleagues Parisian talk to the distinguished guest. They took the opportunity to look back at the ending of Titanic and the progress of Avatar 3. According to the main stakeholder, who was blunt, 1 minute of film would be produced per day:
Filming with the actors has been completed. I’m currently shooting the virtual part. Alone in a room, I film with a virtual camera and use the actors’ performance captures. I create sequences from the angles I want and create the shots, the machines and the creatures. We get one minute of film a day. And we rise in parallel… – James Cameron
