by J.R. Powell

Created on: November 28, 2010   Last Updated: January 15, 2012

Avatar has become the all-time biggest box office hit since its release in December 2009, earning over 2.7 billion dollars worldwide according to the Internet Movie Database. Its success also encouraged other 3D films to be made.

What can we expect from the sequel:

It is expected that the sequel will carry on from where the first film left off, following what happens to Jake Sully and Neytiri and the others on Pandora.

Release Dates:

Avatar 2 was scheduled to be released in December 2014, with Avatar 3 scheduled for release in December 2015.  Though, according to Avatar producer Jon Landau, speaking in January 2011, the first sequel is "four years away", which could mean the sequels have been put back to 2016 and 2017 respectively.

The Oceans of Pandora

While initial reports about the sequel mentioned that it was going to be focusing on the oceans of Pandora, in more recent reports (for example by Empire magazine http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=29468 ) Jon Landau, the producer of Avatar, has indicated that while the oceans of Pandora will play a part in the sequel, they won't be as big a part as had been suggested, saying that "There’s been a lot of rumours that it’s an underwater movie – it’s not. Just like the Floating Mountains, and the Na’vi's interaction with the mountains, were a part of Avatar, it’ll be the same type of thing."

Frame Rates and the Future of Film Making

Back in April 2008, Variety reported (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983864) that Cameron had wanted to shoot Avatar at a higher frame rate than the 24 frames per second that films are normally shot at, with Cameron saying "I'd love to have done "Avatar" at 48 frames. But I have to fight these battles one at a time. I'm just happy people are waking up to 3-D. Maybe on "Avatar 2.""

Since then, at events such as Comic-Con 2009 and the Avatar première Cameron has mentioned future films will be made at higher frame rates (such as 48 or 60 fps), and that 'maybe' this will be done for Avatar 2.

More recently he has further elaborated on how he plans to make the sequel according to various sources including slashfilm.com, saying:

"The only sweeping change between now and when we release the second Avatar film is I want to natively author the film at a higher frame rate and project it at a higher frame rate. I want to get rid of the motion artifacting associated with 24 frame display. Because movies are way behind, they’re

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