$2.3 billion: Will Avatar 3 be released on schedule? James Cameron responds

Last year’s Avatar 2 won over 14.2 million viewers. Internationally, James Cameron’s work brought in a modest $2.32 billion.

Part 3, which was supposed to be released in December 2024, was finally pushed back to December 17, 2025. The director announced the news of this new opus, which has already been filmed.

As of now, the feature film is in the post-production phase for the next two years, the director said. press conference in New Zealand. James Cameron called this stage of production “stressed and busy”which confirms that Avatar 3 will arrive by Christmas 2025.

As a reminder, last June, Disney announced the postponement of all franchise sequels. Avatar 4, which was supposed to be released on December 16, 2026, has been delayed by 3 years! The new date is December 2029. Opus 5, originally scheduled for December 20, 2028, has also been delayed. Therefore, the result of the saga will hit the screens in December 2031!

Information that Zoe Saldana, Neytiri’s translator, did not downplay with humor in an Instagram story. The 45-year-old actor wrote: “Great! I’ll be 53 when the last Avatar comes out. I was 27 when I did the first film.” If Zoe Saldana is still in the cast of Avatar 5 in 2031, she will have played Navi for 22 years.

Producer John Landau explained the delay in the release dates of the films by the intensive computer-generated imagery work required to create each component.

“Every Avatar film is an exciting yet epic undertaking that takes time to reach the level of quality that the director strives to achieve and that the audience expects. The team is hard at work and can’t wait to welcome audiences back to Pandora in December 2025.”He trusted his X account.

Therefore, we will have to wait two years before returning to the planet Pandora with Jake, Neytiri and their children.