The sequel to movie box office champion “Avatar” arrives in theaters this week, 13 years after the first film, as cinemas try to recover from the pandemic and draw people away from streaming at home.
The sequel to movie box office champion “Avatar” arrives in theaters this week, 13 years after the first film, as cinemasHollywood’s big question about “Avatar: The Way of Water” is whether the follow-up to the highest-grossing movie of all time can attract enough moviegoers to recoup its massive production and marketing costs. Director James Cameron admits he is not sure.
But the lengthy interlude before the second film prompted questions about whether moviegoers still remember the story and have any interest in seeing it continue. The director said it was a “very legitimate concern” that audiences might no longer care about “Avatar.” But for him, those anxieties disappeared when the first ““What does worry me is the market has contracted,” he said, “due to the kind of double punch of streaming and the pandemic.”In “The Way of Water,” actors Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana return as Jake Sully and Neytiri 10 years later, now parents of five children.
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