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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: James Cameron's Avatar 3 Warning · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, James Cameron has never
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Speaker 1: been afraid of releasing a long movie, with his smashes
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Speaker 1: Titanic three hours, fifteen minutes and his most recent Avatar
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Speaker 1: The Way of the Water three hours and twelve minutes.
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Speaker 2: But for the next Avatar film, Fire and Ash, he's
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Speaker 2: going even longer. He tells Empire in a nutshell, we
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Speaker 2: had too many great ideas packed into Act one of
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Speaker 2: Avatar two. In retrospect, it was moving like a bullet train,
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Speaker 2: and we weren't drilling down enough on character development. So
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Speaker 2: I said to my team, guys, who've got to stop it.
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Speaker 2: So movie three will be longer than Movie two parts
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Speaker 2: James Cameron. There, we might make some producers antsy with
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Speaker 2: that long of a run time, as some experts argue
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Speaker 2: it deters audiences, but considering the first two Avatars made
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Speaker 2: more than five point two billion combined, Cameron seems to
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Speaker 2: nobody's doing.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,