"Avatar" director James Cameron on making "Fire and Ash," explaining performance capture in the age of AI and why it's too early to talk "Avatar 4."

Fire and Ash done, Cameron needs to take a break from Na’vi and work on the promised sequel to Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel.

The writer/director tells IndieWire about Chaplin's creative contributions to her role, and why making a mistake in casting is worse than making mistakes in terms of schedule, budget, and visual design.

With the help of the VFX experts at Wēta FX, the filmmaker turned his focus to the physics of fire for 'Avatar 3' — and forged a villain alliance like no other.

Technology has continued to evolve in the years since the first Avatar movie came out. The Way of Water was simply breathtaking, and Fire and Ash features similarly strong visuals. Sometimes, it does look like you're watching a three-hour video game cutscene; a top-of-the-line cutscene, at that, but a cutscene nonetheless.

The most talked-about scene in 'Fire and Ash' just might be the Cameron favorite, and the director had to push to keep it: "Guys, you’re about to become unemployed — put it back, every line."

Fire and Ash, which was filmed at the same time as The Way of Water, and Cameron himself has said that these two films were originally going to be just one movie. Unlike so many of Cameron’s films, Fire and Ash doesn’t feel like the same gargantuan jump in quality and technical achievement that we’ve come to expect from him That’s not to say that this third Avatar film isn’t a high-quality,