James Cameron has another movie on the horizon, and it’s the highly anticipated Avatar: Fire and Ash. One of the biggest titles on the 2025 movie schedule, Cameron’s sci-fi threequel is earning attention not just for the stellar 3D effects it boasts but also because of the financial elements at play. A lot has been reported about how much the movie supposedly costs to make. Now, Cameron himself is speaking out after being asked and, when that happened, he dropped a few F-bombs.
What’s evident upon even seeing a snippet of footage from one of the Avatar films is that they’re technical achievements, and it costs quite a bit of money to make such blockbusters. As of late, it’s been alleged that Fire and Ash has a production budget of $400 million, though that hasn’t been formally verified by Bob Iger or other Disney execs. James Cameron was faced with some finance-related questions recently and quipped that those queries were for Iger. Still, Cameron offered up this take on The Town with Matthew Belloni podcast:
