Editing Avatar: Fire and Ash (section)

== Release ==
''Avatar 3'' is scheduled to be released on December 20, 2024, by [[20th Century Studios]]. Like its predecessor, the film was subjected to eight delays, since the crew took more time on the writing, pre-production and visual effects process. It was originally scheduled for December 2015, until Cameron pushed the release to 2016, 2017 and 2018. In April 2016, coinciding with the launch of four ''Avatar'' sequels, a new release date of December 2020 was announced. The following year, a new release date of December 17, 2021 was announced, with the recurring sequels: Avatar 4 and 5 releasing on December 20, 2024, and December 19, 2025, respectively. However, following the announcement of the then-upcoming [[Star Wars Sequel Trilogy|''Star Wars'' sequel trilogy]], in May 2019, the sequels' release dates were pushed back to two years, with ''Avatar 3'', being scheduled to released on December 22, 2023. The release date was again deferred due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in August 2020, a new release of December 20, 2024 was announced. Another delay happened on June 13, 2023 due to both complications surrounding the 2023 Writer's Guild of America strike and discussions about possible reshoots in post-production, pushing the film to December 19, 2025. ''Avatar: Fire and Ash'' and the forthcoming sequels will be released in Dolby Vision.

In December 2022, shortly after ''Avatar: The Way of Water'' was released, it was revealed that Cameron handed in his first cut of ''Fire and Ash'', which had a running time of nine hours. Cameron later clarified that the nine hours of material referred to ''Fire and Ash'', ''Avatar 4'' and ''Avatar 5'' being each three-hour films for a total of nine hours. Cameron revealed in a interview with 20 minutes that the film would feature new Na'vi people, called the 'Ash people', who will be the antagonists of the film.