Avatar: The Way of Water | 16 DEC 2022 | Don't worry guys, critics like it

[IronJimbo]

Yeah I'm thinking the Trailer will be out before Nov 11th, could be a cinema exclusive again.

It's kinda annoying that Avatar 2 marketing has to time itself around lesser films

[marveldcfox]

1 hour ago, GOGODanca said:

If Ant Man Quantumania gets its trailer before a 2nd one for Avatar 2 then cameron needs to go to Chapeks office and slap him

Oops..chapek to be mauled.

[Maggie]

I remember people complaining about the marketing of the first one too. The opening was not the biggest, but that movie was a WOM monster.

[WittyUsername]

I think the current lack of a full trailer wouldn’t feel so jarring if we didn’t get the teaser nearly six months ago.

[SnokesLegs]

25 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

I think the current lack of a full trailer wouldn’t feel so jarring if we didn’t get the teaser nearly six months ago.

The Oppenheimer trailer came out nearly a year prior to release, likewise with the new Mission Impossible. 6 months really isn’t THAT out of the ordinary for a teaser. Before Covid we’d be getting teasers for late summer releases with the Super Bowl in early February.

 

Wasn't the first Force Awakens teaser in May of 2015?

Edited October 24, 2022 by SnokesLegs

[cookie]

6 minutes ago, SnokesLegs said:

Wasn't the first Force Awakens teaser in May of 2015?

November 2014, actually. I remember people being surprised it arrived that early, but I guess Disney wanted to get the jump on announcing the return of Star Wars.

Edited October 24, 2022 by cookie

[WittyUsername]

14 minutes ago, SnokesLegs said:

The Oppenheimer trailer came out nearly a year prior to release, likewise with the new Mission Impossible. 6 months really isn’t THAT out of the ordinary for a teaser. Before Covid we’d be getting teasers for late summer releases with the Super Bowl in early February.

 

Wasn't the first Force Awakens teaser in May of 2015?

The first TFA teaser was released in November 2014, followed by another teaser in April 2015. 

Edited October 24, 2022 by WittyUsername

[SnokesLegs]

28 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

The first TFA teaser was released in November 2014, followed by another teaser in April 2015. 

 

38 minutes ago, cookie said:

November 2014, actually. I remember people being surprised it arrived that early, but I guess Disney wanted to get the jump on announcing the return of Star Wars.

There we go then, 13 months before followed by another teaser six months later. Disney have form for this. 
 

I know the fans are impatiently wanting to see more (hell, I’m one of them!) but the fact is that they won’t want to blow their marketing dollars too early. The fans are already well aware it’s coming, Mid-November is the sweet spot for making sure everyone else is aware of it, any sooner and general audiences are likely to forget.

[eridani]

Another big issue is that the teaser was aimed at avatar fans, and not the rest of the audience. It would have been better if teaser was trying to sell the movie to the folks that haven't ever seen avatar in theaters.

[IronJimbo]

2 hours ago, eridani said:

Another big issue is that the teaser was aimed at avatar fans, and not the rest of the audience. It would have been better if teaser was trying to sell the movie to the folks that haven't ever seen avatar in theaters.

 

well it is a teaser, not an explainer

[Lothar]

So we are about to see full trailer anytime now. 

 

https://thedirect.com/article/avatar-2-trailer-next-release

[IronJimbo]

5 minutes ago, Lothar said:

So we are about to see full trailer anytime now. 

 

https://thedirect.com/article/avatar-2-trailer-next-release

 

This is the source the article is linking, better just to link this.

 

So who the hell is this guy and can they be trusted?

[adaros]

AvatarRemaster on Disney+ is cool just hope we will get proper UHD blu-ray next year I need that.

[JWR]

27 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

 

This is the source the article is linking, better just to link this.

 

So who the hell is this guy and can they be trusted?

 

I wonder what the other trailers are?

[VENOM]

13 hours ago, eridani said:

Another big issue is that the teaser was aimed at avatar fans, and not the rest of the audience. It would have been better if teaser was trying to sell the movie to the folks that haven't ever seen avatar in theaters.

They literally did re-release it in theatres and gave it a big ad push. If there’s no hype it’s not because of lack of trying. 

[YM!]

1 hour ago, JWR said:

 

I wonder what the other trailers are?

Guessing Ant Man, The Little Mermaid or Elemental and Avatar 2

[SchumacherFTW]

1 hour ago, adaros said:

AvatarRemaster on Disney+ is cool just hope we will get proper UHD blu-ray next year I need that.

I need that disc, now preferably. 

[adaros]

The Underwater Cinematography Behind Avatar 2: 3D Beam Splitter and Nikonos Lenses - YMCinema - News & Insights on Digital Cinema

 

Good Read

[Deuce66]

New interview posted on the New York Times today. A few tidbits, the movie has been screened to test audiences already, 

 

If you need to bypass the paywall try the "reader" function if you have it. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/movies/avatar-way-of-the-water-james-cameron.html

 

So is this a more fun James Cameron?

SAM WORTHINGTON Yeah, absolutely.

CAMERON Don’t all speak at once.

 

The first “Avatar” was a major breakthrough when it came to 3-D. What do you make of what happened to the format in the years after that?

 

CAMERON I think the studios blew it. Just to save 20 percent of the authoring cost of the 3-D, they went with 3-D post-conversion, which takes it out of the hands of the filmmaker on the set and puts it into some postproduction process that yielded a poor result. I do think that the new “Avatar” film will rekindle an interest in natively authored 3-D, which is what I personally believe is the right way to do it. I say either do 3-D or don’t do 3-D, but don’t try to slap it on afterward to get the up-charge on the ticket.

[IronJimbo]

8 minutes ago, Deuce66 said:

New interview posted on the New York Times today. A few tidbits, the movie has been screened to test audiences already, 

 

If you need to bypass the paywall try the "reader" function if you have it. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/movies/avatar-way-of-the-water-james-cameron.html

 

So is this a more fun James Cameron?

SAM WORTHINGTON Yeah, absolutely.

CAMERON Don’t all speak at once.

 

The first “Avatar” was a major breakthrough when it came to 3-D. What do you make of what happened to the format in the years after that?

 

CAMERON I think the studios blew it. Just to save 20 percent of the authoring cost of the 3-D, they went with 3-D post-conversion, which takes it out of the hands of the filmmaker on the set and puts it into some postproduction process that yielded a poor result. I do think that the new “Avatar” film will rekindle an interest in natively authored 3-D, which is what I personally believe is the right way to do it. I say either do 3-D or don’t do 3-D, but don’t try to slap it on afterward to get the up-charge on the ticket.

I love Jim just constantly affirming everything we've said in this thread over the years

 

To completely blow my own horn I fully called that there will be an ocean version of the hometree getting blown up. Jim wants you all to realise the beauty we are destroying