(Image credit: Paramount Pictures) Theater Owners Could Finally Invest In 3D ImprovementsĬonsidering the inclusion of 4K, 48 FPS High Frame Rate, and Dolby Atmos and Vision releases into Avatar: The Way of Water’s portfolio, we might see improved methods of 3D hitting the wider theatrical market.

With Dolby Atmos and Vision also in the mix, more varied formats of 3D are on the horizon for this December 2022 release. James Cameron had previously nixed HFR versions of Avatar 's sequel, but it looks like the writer/director has changed his mind, specifically to the tune of 48 FPS. To draw even further context about how serious Avatar: The Way of Water’s release platform sounds, it’s going to have high frame rate versions being released. We are talking about high resolution, high frame rates, 3D, Imax, PLF, different sound systems and in 160 different languages. Or at least, his remarks on Avatar 2’s release platform at CinemaCon (via THR ) would indicate that, as he made the following pledge: John Fithian, the CEO of NATO, seems to remember those days rather well. James Cameron’s insistence that theaters be able to show the film in as many formats as possible, with IMAX and 3D being central to that strategy, changed everything when it hit. Without Avatar’s gargantuan success in 2009, the 3D market may have never landed as studios had intended.

(Image credit: 20th Century Studios) 3D, And Other Formats, Are Already Confirmed For Avatar 2's Release

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