{"id":22038,"date":"2022-11-22T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/22\/james-cameron-says-avatar-2-has-to-be-the-3rd-or-4th-highest-grossing-film-ever-to-be-break-even\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:38:12","slug":"james-cameron-says-avatar-2-has-to-be-the-third-or-4th-highest-grossing-film-ever-to-be-break-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/22\/james-cameron-says-avatar-2-has-to-be-the-third-or-4th-highest-grossing-film-ever-to-be-break-even\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron Says \u2018Avatar 2\u2019 Has To Be The third Or 4th Highest Grossing Film Ever To Be \u201cBreak Even\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"\/>\n<p><strong>James Cameron<\/strong> is a madman, proper? Twice in historical past, the filmmaker took on two bold movies that pundits had written off as possible flops. Instead, \u201c<strong>Titanic<\/strong>,\u201d went on to turn out to be the highest-grossing movie of all time. Then years later, \u201c<strong>Avatar<\/strong>\u201d did the identical (and it ought to be famous, \u201c<strong>Avengers: Endgame<\/strong>\u201d briefly grew to become the highest-grossing movie of all time till Cameron re-released \u201cAvatar\u201d worldwide and has reclaimed that throne). So we\u2019ve at all times stated, don\u2019t guess in opposition to and or don\u2019t ever depend out James Cameron.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/james-cameron-might-end-avatar-franchise-after-the-third-film-if-way-of-water-fails-at-box-office-20221107\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE: James Cameron Might End \u2018Avatar\u2019 Franchise After The Third Film If \u2018Way Of Water\u2019 Fails At Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That stated, Cameron isn\u2019t actually making it straightforward on himself. In a brand new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/james-cameron-profile-men-of-the-year-2022?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_brand=gq&amp;mbid=social_twitter&amp;utm_social-type=owned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GQ<\/a>, Cameron stated his upcoming film, \u201c<strong>Avatar: The Way Of Water<\/strong>,\u201d must be a large hit to interrupt even. How costly was the film? \u201cVery fucking [expensive],\u201d Cameron stated. The filmmaker even knowledgeable the studio that the movie represented \u201cthe worst business case in movie history.\u201d In order to be worthwhile, he\u2019d stated, \u201cyou have to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history. That\u2019s your threshold. That\u2019s your break even.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yikes. And look, if anybody can pull it off, it\u2019s James Cameron. Still, within the post-pandemic period the place cracking $1 billion on the field workplace seems like a miraculous achievement, one must be fearful for Cameron and Disney provided that third or fourth-highest-grossing movie in historical past means what he\u2019s speaking about is the $2.1 billion-$2 billion vary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like difficult,\u201d Cameron stated concerning the insurmountable challenges he at all times appears to tackle with every movie. \u201cI\u2019m attracted by difficulty. Difficult is a fucking magnet for me. I go straight to difficult. And I think it probably goes back to this idea that there are lots of smart, really gifted, really talented filmmakers out there that just can\u2019t do the difficult stuff. So that gives me a tactical edge to do something nobody else has ever seen because the really gifted people don\u2019t fucking want to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He definitely has an ego, that\u2019s for positive. But that is his m.o. for higher or worse, \u201c<strong>Terminator 2: Judgment Day<\/strong>,\u201d \u201c<strong>True Lies<\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201c<strong>Titanic<\/strong>\u201d had been all the most costly movies ever made throughout their day. Now Cameron leans into that ambition and scale and doesn\u2019t apologize for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I used to be really defensive about that because it was always the first thing anybody would mention,\u201d Cameron stated. \u201cAnd now I\u2019m like, if I can make a business case to spend a billion dollars on a movie, I will fucking do it. Do you want to know why? Because we don\u2019t put it all on a pile and light it on fire. We give it to people. If the studio agrees and thinks it\u2019s a good investment, as opposed to buying an oil lease off of the north of Scotland, which somebody would think was a good investment, why not do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameron has already stated his five-film \u201cAvatar\u201d is determined by if \u2018Way of Water,\u2019 and the third movie, which has already been shot, are hits. For the sake of the film business, which feels prefer it\u2019s in the midst of a disaster proper now, we hope that \u201cAvatar: The Way Of Water\u201d is a big hit, however can magic strike twice?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Avatar: The Way of Water | Official Trailer\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" onload=\"Wpfcll.r(this,true);\" data-wpfc-original-src=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-fastest-cache-premium\/pro\/templates\/youtube.html#d9MyW72ELq0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id){var js, fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if(d.getElementById(id)) return; js=d.createElement(s); js.id=id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.0\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] James Cameron is a madman, proper? Twice in historical past, the filmmaker took on two bold movies that pundits had written off as possible flops. Instead, \u201cTitanic,\u201d went on to turn out to be the highest-grossing movie of all time. Then years later, \u201cAvatar\u201d did the identical (and it ought to be famous, \u201cAvengers: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}