His highest-grossing movie is the third installment of The Lord of the Rings franchise, which alone made an impressive $1.1 billion.Īnthony and Joseph have broken our fans so many times in Avengers: Infinity War and then again in Avengers: Endgame… and made so much money doing it! Their movies have sold over $6.8 billion worth of tickets, with the penultimate installment of the Infinity Saga alone bringing in a third of that (over $2.7 billion).Īvatar 2 may not have beaten the first movie box office-wise, but it has moved Cameron up three spots on this list! The director’s films have made over $8.7 billion in theaters, and the first Avatar’s profits are a quarter of that (over $2.9 billion). The person who has given Tolkien’s Middle-earth a second life (now, on the big screen), has made films that have taken home over $6.5 billion combined. Michael Bay is also the only director on this list who hasn’t received much critical acclaim. His movies have grossed over $6.4 billion, and 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon is responsible for about a fifth of that (over $1.1 billion). This renowned filmmaker is best known for his work on the Transformers franchise. His films have taken home over $6.3 billion, with the final movie of the Harry Potter saga’s box office being a record $1.3 billion. Potterheads may hate him all they want, but their money spent on tickets to see Harry Potter has secured David Yates’ sixth place in this rating. 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises took the crown with over $1 billion in profits, but the upcoming Oppenheimer could still change things up… It frankly doesn’t bear thinking about.īut if Cameron really expects us to keep paying good money to see these films, he’ll need to ensure that The Way of Water fires up synapses and short-circuits photoreceptors like Avatar did.Nolan’s films are considered niche because they are too complicated to understand on the first viewing, yet they have grossed over $4.9 billion worldwide. Goodness knows how many sentient trees will have had to die, not to mention how many Na’avi great-grandchildren Sully and Neytiri will have spawned by the time we get to Avatar part seven. Frankly, he couldn’t be more invested in Avatar if he tattooed himself from head to toe in cyan like Ben Stiller in that infamous Oscars sketch, especially when the film-maker himself admits he’ll probably be close to 90 by the time we find out how all this ends up. Having moved into Peter Jackson’s old office in Wellington, Cameron is contemplating taking New Zealand citizenship as he searches for the perfect working environment to keep pumping out more tales of Pandora.
At the age of 68, the arch sci-fi storyteller is ready to make at least another three of these films and even has plans for a further two episodes that will probably be directed by other people. Yet we should give Cameron the benefit of the doubt. Giant blue space elves vie to fend off the same human meanies we saw last time while learning a lot about the importance of family in the process? It somehow doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. We needed a sequel to get us excited about the forest moon of Pandora all over again, and Cameron roundly refused to give us one until it was ready.įamily matters … Avatar: The Way of Water. Where once Avatar was a majestic, psychedelic and spine-tingling big-screen trip into 3D sensuality, for the last five years or so it has been the silly-looking space fantasy that pops up every now and again as an option on Amazon Prime. This, I suspect, is the real reason that the hype surrounding The Way of Water has been middling to say the least.
On normal screens … well, you would probably have had a better time at home in front of the telly.
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Watching Sam Worthington’s Jake Sully enter the spectacular world of the Na’vi in glorious Imax 3D was like having one’s eyes popped full of sugar serum and dosed with premium LSD. I remember catching the film four times at the cinema, twice at Imax cinemas in London and twice on standard screens elsewhere. This is some level of confidence, but perhaps we’re all forgetting how much of a Big Deal the first Avatar was. The Way of Water is currently predicted to take only $150m on its opening weekend in the US, but if it performs anything like the original, people will be turning up to the multiplexes for years to come hoping to grab their fill of 12ft blue space elves, sentient trees and evil human invaders in mech-suits.Ĭameron is certainly counting on people going multiple times in a new interview he even suggests it doesn’t matter if we all need the loo half way through the three-hour film, because we can catch the bits we missed the next time around.
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