Avatar 3 has started: Cameron is rewriting the rules of the movie business again

Thirteen years between parts, nine date changes, a budget the size of the GDP of a small country — and then it happened. “Avatar: Fire and Ash” burst into the world box office the way only Cameron can: loudly, expensively, with a claim to eternity.

December 19, 2025, blue humanoids returned to the screens. And judging by the first figures, the skeptics again lost their bets.

Three hundred million over the weekend is not a forecast, it’s a diagnosis

Analysts predict the threequel will earn from 350 to 380 million dollars over the first weekend. This is the second opening result of the year after Zootopia 2. For a film with a length of 3 hours and 15 minutes, this is an almost physically impossible result.

What new audiences will see:

• The people of Ash — for the first time, the “evil” Na'vi with their truth
• The Tlalim clan — wind traders with flying rocks
• The war between the Pandora clans — Sally's family is at the epicenter
• Lo'ak becomes the main character — the grown-up son intercepts the narrative

The Russian premiere is scheduled for January 15, 2026. The Association of Cinemas decided not to compete with domestic New Year's releases — logical, but painful for fans.

At Xrust.ru we have been following the franchise since the first part. And here’s what’s interesting: critics are again unhappy with the plot, and viewers are again paying money. It seems that Cameron has long understood something that reviewers do not understand.

Xrust Avatar 3 has started: Cameron is again rewriting the rules of the movie business