Avatar: Fire and Ash Lands on Disney+ June 24

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The wait to return to Pandora from your couch is almost over. Avatar: Fire and Ash is officially coming to Disney+ on June 24 — and it was none other than Sigourney Weaver who delivered the news, stepping onstage at Disney’s Upfronts presentation in New York on Tuesday to make the announcement herself.

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The third installment in James Cameron’s Avatar franchise hit theaters on December 19, 2025, and has been on a steady march toward streaming ever since — landing on digital purchase platforms at the end of March and hitting physical media (4K, Blu-ray) on May 19. The Disney+ debut on June 24 completes that rollout, landing roughly 196 days after its theatrical release.

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What Fire and Ash Is All About

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Picking up shortly after the events of Avatar: The Way of Water, the film follows Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) as their family grapples with grief while being hunted by the relentless Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and his RDA forces. This time, Quaritch has a new ally: Varang, played by Oona Chaplin, the ruthless leader of the Mangkwan clan — a fire-based Na’vi tribe known as the Ash People — who trades her loyalty for human weaponry in exchange for helping Quaritch track down the Sullys.

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David Thewlis also joins the franchise as Peylak, leader of the Wind Traders, while the returning ensemble includes Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Bailey Bass, Britain Dalton, Trinity Bliss, Jack Champion, and Edie Falco. Cameron directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver.

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Critics were more divided on this one than on the previous films — it’s the lowest-rated of the three on Rotten Tomatoes from a critical standpoint — but audiences showed up and showed out, giving it a 90% Popcornmeter score. Clearly, the fans aren’t done with Pandora.

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A Billion Dollars and Then Some

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Box office-wise, Fire and Ash has been a monster. The film crossed $1 billion in early January and has since climbed to nearly $1.5 billion globally, including over $300 million domestically. That makes it Cameron’s fourth film to reach the billion-dollar mark, joining Titanic and both previous Avatar entries.

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It also cemented the Avatar series as the highest-grossing film trilogy of all time — a staggering achievement when you consider that the original 2009 Avatar remains the highest-grossing film ever made at $2.9 billion, and The Way of Water sits at $2.3 billion, ranking third all-time behind only Avengers: Endgame. Fire and Ash was also the third 2025 Disney theatrical release to hit $1 billion, following the live-action Lilo & Stitch remake and Zootopia 2.

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As film critic Katie Walsh put it in her review: “At 71, James Cameron still makes movies like he’s got something to prove — despite his many accolades, awards and box-office successes. But that fighting spirit is what makes Cameron’s films feel so alive and so urgent.”

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Oscars, Sequels, and What’s Next

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Fire and Ash also made a little franchise history at the 98th Academy Awards, earning Avatar its first-ever Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design (Deborah L. Scott) alongside a third consecutive franchise win for Best Visual Effects, taken home by Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett.

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As for what comes next — Cameron has already spoken about plans for Avatar 4 and Avatar 5, tentatively scheduled for December 2029 and December 2031 respectively. He’s said future films will jump ahead in time to age up the Sully children and dig deeper into the Wind Traders introduced in Fire and Ash. That said, TheWrap has reported that insiders say there have been conversations about how to make the films cheaper and shorter to manage the financial risk of their enormous budgets — so nothing is fully locked in yet.

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For now, though, fans have something much more immediate to look forward to. Avatar: Fire and Ash hits Disney+ on June 24. The first two films are already streaming on the platform if you need to catch up.

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