{"id":509238,"date":"2026-04-02T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509238\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:36:10","slug":"avatar-4-and-5-get-positive-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509238\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar 4 and 5 Get Positive Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a>, fans of the franchise are wondering if creator James Cameron will get to realize his ambition of following it up with Avatar 4 and 5. While the legendary writer and director has yet to confirm either movie is 100% happening, an Avatar producer sounds convinced both are on the way.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Inverse<\/a>, Avatar producer Rae Sanchini said Avatar 4 and 5 in the planning phase as we speak.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now we\u2019re figuring out the schedule,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re working hard on it right now, budgeting, scheduling, planning, building out our new pipeline for them. As far as we\u2019re concerned, we\u2019re full speed ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The special effects-heavy Avatar films cost a huge amount of money to produce, but they have historically made billions of dollars at the box office. 2009’s Avatar 1 remains the highest-grossing movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation), and has earned a staggering $2.9 billion across several theatrical runs. 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water<\/a> has earned $2.3 billion, meanwhile, cementing its place as the third-highest grossing film of all time.<\/p>\n

Avatar: Fire and Ash, however, made $1.5 billion during its theatrical run. While that\u2019s a huge amount for any movie, it\u2019s some way behind its predecessors. So, has Fire and Ash done well enough to convince Disney to greenlight Avatar 4 and 5? Disney has given both sequels release dates already: Avatar 4 currently has a December 21, 2029 release date, with Avatar 5 due out December 19, 2031. Cameron, now 71, would be close to 80 years old by the time it all wraps up.<\/p>\n

According to Rae Sanchini, both those release dates are \u201ctentative,\u201d although she intends to solidify the schedule \u201cin the not too distant future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the scripts, they\u2019re brilliant,\u201d she continued. \u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, we\u2019re heading forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cameron recently said Avatar 3 would need to make a lot of money, and he\u2019d need to figure out a way to make Avatar 4 and 5 for less money in order to get the thumbs up from Disney<\/a>. \u201cHere\u2019s the thing: the movie industry is depressed right now. Avatar 3 cost a lot of money. We have to do well in order to continue. We have to do well and we need to figure out how to make Avatar movies more inexpensively in order to continue,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we continue and we do 4, we also do 4 and 5 together. So we made 2 and 3 together, one big story. And then 4 and 5 is another big story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameron\u2019s comments echoed those he made in the run up to Fire and Ash\u2019s release, when he admitted he was feeling nervous about the film\u2019s box office performance and expressed concern about the \u201cforces\u201d working against theatrical releases in 2025. Speaking on The Town with Matthew Belloni podcast<\/a>, Cameron said there was potential for \u201csequelitis.\u201d<\/p>\n

“People tend to dismiss sequels unless it\u2019s the third Lord of the Rings film and you want to see what happens to everybody, which in my mind this is \u2014 this is the culmination of a story arc, but that may not be how the public sees it,\u201d he said. And there\u2019s the \u201cone-two punch\u201d of streaming and Covid, which means fewer people are going to the movies \u2014 75% of the number in 2019, Cameron suggested.<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>The fate of Avatar 4 and 5 is still up in the air. Photo by VCG\/VCG via Getty Images.<\/p>\n

When pressed on how much Avatar: Fire and Ash cost to make, Cameron wouldn\u2019t be drawn into divulging a figure, only suggesting it was a lot of money, and so the movie will have to make a lot of money to turn a profit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is one metric f**k ton of money, which means we have to make two metric f**k tons of money to make a profit,\u201d he said. \u201cI have no doubt in my mind that this movie will make money. The question is, does it make enough money to justify doing it again?\u201d<\/p>\n

And on that point, Cameron admitted he was \u201cabsolutely\u201d ready to walk away from Avatar if Fire and Ash flops. \u201cI\u2019ve been in Avatar land for 20 years,\u201d he said. \u201cActually 30 years because I wrote it in \u201895, but I wasn\u2019t working continuously on it for those first 10 years. Yeah, absolutely, sure. If this is where it ends, cool.\u201d But what about open story threads? \u201cThere\u2019s one open thread. I\u2019ll write a book!\u201d Cameron responded.<\/p>\n

Disney had used Avengers: Doomsday teaser trailers (which, apparently, are neither teasers nor trailers<\/a>) to encourage repeat viewings of Avatar: Fire and Ash in theaters.<\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash, fans of the franchise are wondering if creator James Cameron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-509238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}