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How Weta FX Brought the Villainous Ash People to Life in James Cameron's "Avatar: Fire and Ash"

Over a three-year period, Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) were filmed simultaneously in New Zealand and California, beginning in September 2017 and wrapping in late 2020. While reshoots followed, the back-to-back production provided a consistent look for character appearances, specifically Spider (Jack Champion), a teenage “pinkskin” living on Pandora. With a compressed timeline, the visual effects department lean…
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James Cameron can be defined as King Midas of Hollywood, and it’s not an exaggeration. There’s only one director who surpasses his total revenue, and his name is Steven Spielberg. The subtle difference is that Cameron has far fewer films than Spielberg in his filmography. What he does have is a streak that seems doomed to end with Avatar: Fire and Ash. Cameron’s third adventure and science fiction franchise film that he created in 2009 came to t…

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Motion Picture Association broke the news in on Wednesday, January 21, 2026.
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