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Time of India
29-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Avatar: Fire and Ash release date – When will James Cameron's highly anticipated film hit theaters in 2025?
Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer: James Cameron is ready to take audiences back to the stunning world of Pandora with Avatar: Fire and Ash, the eagerly awaited next chapter in the iconic film series. Set to hit theaters in 2025, the movie has already generated buzz among fans curious about the future of the Na'vi and their fight to protect their home, especially after the trailer dropped unexpectedly following an online leak. Now that the release date is confirmed, here's a look at what to expect from this epic adventure and when it will arrive on the big screen. Avatar: Fire and Ash release date Avatar: Fire and Ash is set to arrive in theaters on December 19, 2025, marking three years since the release of Avatar: The Way of Water. Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer breakdown The trailer was officially released after it leaked online, and it has fans going gaga. Here's what it reveals about what to expect from the movie. Fire and Ash introduces a new tribe known as the Ash People. At the 2024 D23 Expo, James Cameron premiered a teaser showing the soot-covered Ash People dancing around a massive fire pit. The trailer shows Jake Sully's family joining forces with the Metkayina clan to battle Varang and her blazing army. Varang, who leads the Ash People, has allied with Quaritch (played by Stephen Lang). Varang appears to wield control over fire, using it to burn down parts of Pandora's forest. Originally, The Way of Water and Fire and Ash were planned as a single film, but Cameron chose to split them due to the story's growing complexity during the writing process. Watch Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer here: Avatar: Fire and Ash cast Alongside Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña, the returning cast includes Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Britain Dalton, Jack Champion, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Bailey Bass, Joel David Moore, Edie Falco, and Dileep Rao. New additions to the ensemble include Oona Chaplin as Varang, the leader of the Ash People, as well as David Thewlis and Michelle Yeoh. FAQs: When is the movie releasing? Avatar: Fire and Ash hits theaters on December 19, 2025. What is it about? Jake Sully's family teams up with the Metkayina clan to fight the Ash People, a fiery new tribe led by Varang, who has joined forces with Quaritch. Who are the Ash People? A new soot-covered Na'vi tribe tied to fire, led by the fierce Varang. Who plays Varang? Oona Chaplin plays Varang, the leader of the Ash People. Who's returning? Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, and more.
The Guardian
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Fire cults and burning banshees: has Avatar: Fire and Ash sent Pandora all the way to hell?
Say what you like about James Cameron, but the man has somehow made three films, umpteen extraterrestrial biomes, and one endlessly grieving smurf wolf pack out of the phrase 'don't touch that tree'. Now, the veteran sci-fi film-maker returns with Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third instalment in cinema's shiniest blue 3D eco fable. And from a preview of the trailer (to be released before showings of The Fantastic Four: First Steps this weekend) this is going to be yet another jaw-dropping, box-office smashing triumph of elemental, stereoscopic worldbuilding – or possibly a very long and very heavy bioluminescent deforestation story, depending on your point of view. Where The Way of Water took us out to sea to commune with whales who cry in subtitles, Fire and Ash drags us into the scorched heart of Pandora's volcanic badlands. Here we meet the Ash People – an angry, soot-streaked Na'vi clan who appear to have spent the last two films building up a healthy mistrust of outsiders. Imagine running into the scariest-looking Great Plains warriors Hollywood ever dreamed up, then dipping them in tar and relocating them to Mordor. They ride screaming banshees through smoke clouds, and if the trailer is anything to go by, they've had just about enough of Sam Worthington's Jake Sully, his adoptive family and the entire colonial project of humanity in general. Which is why it's a little strange to see Stephen Lang's Colonel Miles Quaritch, or at least the reborn recombinant that carries the returning villain's memories, apparently sporting the same scarlet war paint as these newcomers to the franchise. Have the Ash People been conned by humanity into fighting their Na'vi brethren, or are they just the latest poor fools to fall victim to humankind's time-honoured tradition of co-opting Indigenous resistance to fight its proxy wars? Either way, this is a first glimpse of Fire and Ash that in terms of sheer scale, spectacle and blue-on-blue action looks likely to match anything the series has so far delivered. Oona Chaplin's Varang, leader of the new clan, tells a terrified Kiri (the Na'vi born from the dormant Avatar left behind by Sigourney Weaver's late Grace Augustine) that her goddess 'has no dominion here', which must be a pretty scary thing to hear when you've spent your entire life communing with Eywa-infused floating jellyfish. The Sullys appear to be caught up in their own family conflict, and at one point Sully basically tells Zoe Saldaña's Neytiri to stop trying to solve all their life problems with arrows and screaming. It is all incredibly intense and unapologetically Cameron. Yet there's a nagging feeling that if everyone on Pandora would just put aside their problems and try to get along, the extrasolar moon is such a gorgeous vision of eco-spiritual luxury real estate (if you'll forgive the Trumpian gaze) that they could probably all do quite well financially from low-impact glow-in-the-dark wellness tourism. Surely this is the sort of place that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are really trying to get to with all those expensive, celebrity-strewn missions to the 'edge of space'. Or perhaps that's just where Cameron is planning to take us with the next episode – a scorching allegory for climate guilt, where hordes of spiritually curious billionaires arrive at Eywa's doorstep in 3D-printed linen and wide-brimmed hats, demanding personalised banshee rides and artisan root-based cleansing rituals. It will be the final defeat of the Na'vi – not by war, but by a full season of White Lotus: Pandora, starring Amy Adams as a well-meaning but culturally disastrous grief yogi who accidentally destroys the Tree of Souls with her Tesla-branded personal eco-hoverpod. In the meantime, Avatar: Fire and Ash. If you liked the last two movies, this one will most likely boil your eyeballs and your conscience in roughly equal measure. If you thought the whole thing was a load of weepy, whale-whispering space guff, you'll probably spend three hours wondering why the trees are crying again.
The Guardian
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Fire cults and burning banshees: has Avatar: Fire and Ash sent Pandora all the way to hell?
Say what you like about James Cameron, but the man has somehow made three films, umpteen extraterrestrial biomes, and one endlessly grieving smurf wolf pack out of the phrase 'don't touch that tree'. Now, the veteran sci-fi film-maker returns with Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third instalment in cinema's shiniest blue 3D eco fable. And from a preview of the trailer (to be released before showings of The Fantastic Four: First Steps this weekend) this is going to be yet another jaw-dropping, box-office smashing triumph of elemental, stereoscopic worldbuilding – or possibly a very long and very heavy bioluminescent deforestation story, depending on your point of view. Where The Way of Water took us out to sea to commune with whales who cry in subtitles, Fire and Ash drags us into the scorched heart of Pandora's volcanic badlands. Here we meet the Ash People – an angry, soot-streaked Na'vi clan who appear to have spent the last two films building up a healthy mistrust of outsiders. Imagine running into the scariest-looking Great Plains warriors Hollywood ever dreamed up, then dipping them in tar and relocating them to Mordor. They ride screaming banshees through smoke clouds, and if the trailer is anything to go by, they've had just about enough of Sam Worthington's Jake Sully, his adoptive family and the entire colonial project of humanity in general. Which is why it's a little strange to see Stephen Lang's Colonel Miles Quaritch, or at least the reborn recombinant that carries the returning villain's memories, apparently sporting the same scarlet war paint as these newcomers to the franchise. Have the Ash People been conned by humanity into fighting their Na'vi brethren, or are they just the latest poor fools to fall victim to humankind's time-honoured tradition of co-opting Indigenous resistance to fight its proxy wars? Either way, this is a first glimpse of Fire and Ash that in terms of sheer scale, spectacle and blue-on-blue action looks likely to match anything the series has so far delivered. Oona Chaplin's Varang, leader of the new clan, tells a terrified Kiri (the Na'vi born from the dormant Avatar left behind by Sigourney Weaver's late Grace Augustine) that her goddess 'has no dominion here', which must be a pretty scary thing to hear when you've spent your entire life communing with Eywa-infused floating jellyfish. The Sullys appear to be caught up in their own family conflict, and at one point Sully basically tells Zoe Saldaña's Neytiri to stop trying to solve all their life problems with arrows and screaming. It is all incredibly intense and unapologetically Cameron. Yet there's a nagging feeling that if everyone on Pandora would just put aside their problems and try to get along, the extrasolar moon is such a gorgeous vision of eco-spiritual luxury real estate (if you'll forgive the Trumpian gaze) that they could probably all do quite well financially from low-impact glow-in-the-dark wellness tourism. Surely this is the sort of place that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are really trying to get to with all those expensive, celebrity-strewn missions to the 'edge of space'. Or perhaps that's just where Cameron is planning to take us with the next episode – a scorching allegory for climate guilt, where hordes of spiritually curious billionaires arrive at Eywa's doorstep in 3D-printed linen and wide-brimmed hats, demanding personalised banshee rides and artisan root-based cleansing rituals. It will be the final defeat of the Na'vi – not by war, but by a full season of White Lotus: Pandora, starring Amy Adams as a well-meaning but culturally disastrous grief yogi who accidentally destroys the Tree of Souls with her Tesla-branded personal eco-hoverpod. In the meantime, Avatar: Fire and Ash. If you liked the last two movies, this one will most likely boil your eyeballs and your conscience in roughly equal measure. If you thought the whole thing was a load of weepy, whale-whispering space guff, you'll probably spend three hours wondering why the trees are crying again.
UPI
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
'House of David' S2 to release early for Wonder Project subscribers
Stephen Lang arrives for the Golden Globe Awards in 2023. He plays Samuel in "House of David." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo June 24 (UPI) -- House of David Season 2 will release early for Prime Video users who purchase a new Wonder Project subscription, the streamer announced Tuesday. Wonder Project, which launches in the fall, is aimed at Prime Video's "global faith and values audience," according to a press release. The service will offer subscribers exclusive early access to content such as House of David. The sophomore season also becomes available in the fall, before a wide release on Prime Video at an unspecified date. The subscription will cost $8.99 a month. "Our audience is underserved and craves a destination they can trust with exceptional originals and curated movies and TV shows," said Wonder Project founder Jon Erwin in a statement. "With the new Wonder Project subscription on Prime Video, we will be delivering all of that and more." House of David tells the story of the biblical figure David, "who eventually becomes the most renowned and celebrated king of Israel," according to an official description. Michael Iskander stars.
