So Star Wars trying to come for Avatar now.

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The 3D experience isn't as new as it was back then. I doubt it will duplicate the phenomenon of the first movie.

Most people would probably choose star wars over avatar due to the investment of TFA. Hard to say though until we start seeing trailers for both movies.
 

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Somebody will move dates. Star Wars already changed dates so...bye Avatar.


Welp it doesn't matter anymore. Avatar getting pushed back again.

Making 3 movies all at once (each with run times of probably 2 1/2 hours) has never been done before and won't make the deadline for next year.

I guess this thread is pointless now.
 

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People don't stan avatar like they stan Star Wars. Also a lot of it's hype was built around it being :whoo: with the 3d and cgi with the motion capture. But now that 3d isn't a big deal and a few other movies have done similar motion capture, Cameron either going to have to have to come up with some other visual thing, or make a movie that looks like it'll be great.
 

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Only reason why Avatar broke those records is cause it was new and no one knew what it was gonna be. Now that we know it was one of the most overrated movies ever, I doubt the same numbers of people are gonna go rushing to see the sequel.

Whereas the cliffhanger left in TFA will have everyone rushing to see SW8 first weekend.

Just my opinion though.


Why are you acting like Avatar wasn't as hyped up as Star Wars is now? Yea, you can say that Avatar wasn't as good as people hyped it up to be but that's hindsight. Lets not act like SW has done anything remotely different than any other blockbuster that has come out in the past years. The 2nd coming of The Matrix it is not.

TFA is already suffering from backlash, who knows how fans will view it in a couple years time.
 
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Avatar blinked. Disney probably already knew that Avatar 2 wasn't going to meet that date anyway...

Avatar 2 Delayed Again, Won't Meet Christmas 2017 Window

For anyone who was excited to see James Cameron‘s long-gestating Avatar 2 take on Star Wars: Episode VIII for a Christmas box office battle royale, we have some bad news. Avatar 2 will not be ready to meet the Christmas 2017 release that was staked out for the sequel. Though the release date was never officially claimed by 20th Century Fox, Cameron himself said they were targeting the holiday release window just last month. But now we have no idea when the sequel might hit the big screen.

The Wrap has the news of Avatar 2 delayed, though at this point we’re not surprised. For the past few years Avatar 2 has been rumored for 2014, 2015, 2016 and most recently 2017. But when Cameron did mention the previous Christmas 2017 target, he added that meeting that date wasn’t as important as “the fact that when we get all three films done, we drop them a year apart.”


There was already speculation that Avatar 2 wasn’t going to meet the estimated release when Star Wars: Episode VIIImoved to December 15th, 2017, a full seven months after the previously planned May 2017 release date. Disney clearly knew they weren’t going to have any major competition at the box office and also wanted that Christmas money for their merchandise release. Plus, there’s no way Disney would willingly take on Avatar 2 with the chance of having a smaller IMAX screen count, especially when there’s an Avatar installment planned for their theme parks.

So perhaps now that Star Wars: Episode VIII has laid claim to December for at least the next couple years, 20th Century Fox will take Avatar 2 to the summer of 2018 with the third and fourth movies following in 2019 and 2020. As of now Fox isn’t making any new date estimates, and it’s probably best to just let Cameron make the movies and then figure out when to release them when they’re done.

As of now, all we know about Avatar 2 is that Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are reprising their lead roles,underwater performance capture technology will be used, and there’s a chance that Sigourney Weaver might be back in some capacity. Otherwise, any story details are being kept under tight wraps.

In the end, the fact that it’s taking this long for Avatar 2 to come to fruition isn’t all that surprising. James Cameron first announced Avatar as a future project of his in 1996, and audiences didn’t get to see it until 2009. Hopefully fans won’t have to wait 13 years for Avatar 2, though at this point they’ve already waited a little over six, so what’s another seven years?
 

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Avatar blinked. Disney probably already knew that Avatar 2 wasn't going to meet that date anyway...

Avatar 2 Delayed Again, Won't Meet Christmas 2017 Window

For anyone who was excited to see James Cameron‘s long-gestating Avatar 2 take on Star Wars: Episode VIII for a Christmas box office battle royale, we have some bad news. Avatar 2 will not be ready to meet the Christmas 2017 release that was staked out for the sequel. Though the release date was never officially claimed by 20th Century Fox, Cameron himself said they were targeting the holiday release window just last month. But now we have no idea when the sequel might hit the big screen.

The Wrap has the news of Avatar 2 delayed, though at this point we’re not surprised. For the past few years Avatar 2 has been rumored for 2014, 2015, 2016 and most recently 2017. But when Cameron did mention the previous Christmas 2017 target, he added that meeting that date wasn’t as important as “the fact that when we get all three films done, we drop them a year apart.”


There was already speculation that Avatar 2 wasn’t going to meet the estimated release when Star Wars: Episode VIIImoved to December 15th, 2017, a full seven months after the previously planned May 2017 release date. Disney clearly knew they weren’t going to have any major competition at the box office and also wanted that Christmas money for their merchandise release. Plus, there’s no way Disney would willingly take on Avatar 2 with the chance of having a smaller IMAX screen count, especially when there’s an Avatar installment planned for their theme parks.

So perhaps now that Star Wars: Episode VIII has laid claim to December for at least the next couple years, 20th Century Fox will take Avatar 2 to the summer of 2018 with the third and fourth movies following in 2019 and 2020. As of now Fox isn’t making any new date estimates, and it’s probably best to just let Cameron make the movies and then figure out when to release them when they’re done.

As of now, all we know about Avatar 2 is that Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are reprising their lead roles,underwater performance capture technology will be used, and there’s a chance that Sigourney Weaver might be back in some capacity. Otherwise, any story details are being kept under tight wraps.

In the end, the fact that it’s taking this long for Avatar 2 to come to fruition isn’t all that surprising. James Cameron first announced Avatar as a future project of his in 1996, and audiences didn’t get to see it until 2009. Hopefully fans won’t have to wait 13 years for Avatar 2, though at this point they’ve already waited a little over six, so what’s another seven years?

:mjpls: they didn't blink. If anything they went to Fox to make sure they wasn't dropping before changing their date.
 
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