

The trailer broke records for Disney, raking in 148.6 million views in its first day, surpassing all of the trailers for the new Star Wars films. The following Monday, May 9, the official Avatar YouTube channel debuted the trailer online. The first official trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water first debuted exclusively in theaters in front of showings of Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness starting on May 5, 2022.

Below, we’ve put together everything we know so far about the next installment of the franchise: Avatar: The Way of Water. After the wildly successful first movie, Cameron then signed on to create four more Avatar films.

The effects of Avatar were absolutely groundbreaking for their time, and the film broke all kinds of box-office records. Cameron worked with linguists to create an entirely functioning Na’vi language, invented his own specialized camera for capturing actors’ facial expressions, and paved the way for future use of motion-capture animation in filmmaking.
