Avatar: The Way of Water will be released in China amidst continued struggles for Hollywood movies to hit the overseas market. A Marvel movie hasn't been released in China since 2019.
Avatar: The Way of Water now officially has a Chinese theatrical release. Recently, China has been increasing its censorship of American films, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This has led to many huge tentpoles, including every movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2019, not playing in the territory, which has taken a huge chunk out of their potential box office profits.
Per Variety, it was recently announced that James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water, the long-delayed sequel to 2009's smash hit Avatar, will be one of the few pandemic-era American releases to play in China. The film will open in that territory on December 16, the same day it premieres in the U.S. and most other international territories. It will play in both standard theaters and IMAX, the latter of which formed a huge part of why the original was such a box office success.
While things are already looking rosy for the future of Avatar: The Way of Water, it still needs to turn in a gargantuan box office performance in order to be profitable in any way. One of the most expensive films of all time, the epic sci-fi project has racked up a price tag of about $400 million, a number that doesn't include publicity and advertisement expenses, which are likely staggering for a tentpole movie of this stature.
While the original Avatar did perform well on the domestic front, it has been outgrossed on that chart by other projects including Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Endgame, and last year's smash hit Spider-Man: No Way Home, so its box office supremacy has only been retained due to its international grosses, of which China was a huge part.
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