After big preview numbers headed into the weekend, Avatar: The Way of Water came in below predictions of $500-600 million — mostly due to a shocking uncontrolled surge of Covid in China that’s filling hospitals and spreading like wildfire through a population unprepared to deal with it — the $435 million worldwide holiday debut weekend is still the second-biggest of 2022 and points the way toward a potential multi-billion theatrical run.

Despite the exceedingly long wait – Avatar arrived to smash box-office records back in 2009 – the sequel is nearly upon us. So what took so long? In large part, producer Jon Landau says, it was down to writing not one but four scripts for the planned series of sequels up to Avatar 5.

Cinema is a visual language. This much is true across all forms; for this reason, the visual language is, in my opinion, the most beautiful and nuanced beyond all others. After all, just one image truly can be worth a multitude of words, and each of these words can be nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. However, in cinema, images don’t just exist separate from each other as they often do in their predecessor craft, still photography. In cinema, images corroborate with one another and derive exponential more meaning than any one image can. For this reason, the language of cinematic imagery is able to tell a story in a way that...

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