James Cameron announces Avatar sequels

It’s official: James Cameron is going back to Pandora not just for his next film, but for his next two.

Mr. Cameron, the filmmaker behind the 3-D blockbuster Avatar, joined 20th Century Fox in announcing that he would make Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 as his next two movies, with the first of the sequels scheduled for release in December 2014, and the second for December of the following year.

That assures a lot of fantasy-filled Decembers, as Peter Jackson has already scheduled a pair of Hobbit films for Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in that month in the years 2012 and 2013.

Avatar
was released on Dec. 18 of last year and became the highest grossing film in history, with almost $2.8 billion in worldwide ticket sales. Mr. Cameron and the top Fox film executives, Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman, jointly said they aimed to begin production on the first sequel in 2011. The film is not yet officially titled, they said.

(Via ArtsBeat)

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