CinemaCon delegates, donning their 3D glasses, gave a wildly enthusiastic welcome to their return to Pandora with a primary take a look at the gorgeous teaser trailer for James Cameron’s newly titled sequel Avatar: The Means of Water, Wednesday throughout Disney’s slate presentation in Caesars Palace’s Colosseum.

“We want to verify [audiences] have an expertise they’ll’t get anyplace else, and that must be completely in theaters,” mentioned producer Jon Landau in introducing the teaser trailer, which will probably be launched subsequent week, completely in theaters, forward of Disney/Marvel’s Physician Unusual and the Multiverse of Insanity. Landau moreover introduced plans to re-release the unique Avatar on Sept. 23 in theaters, with restored image and sound.

Landau reported that every of the 4 sequels — the primary, The Means of Water, is scheduled for a Dec. 16 launch — will middle on returning Jake Sully, performed by Sam Worthington, and Na’vi Neytiri, performed by Zoe Saldaña, and their household, they usually lengths they go to maintain one another secure; every is a stand-alone movie that “collectively are a fair higher linked epic saga.”

In a narrative set greater than a decade after the occasions of the primary movie, the dazzling footage within the teaser trailer focuses on Jake and Neytiri and contains beautiful photographs of Pandora’s brilliant blue water — each above and under the floor; Toruk, the flying creatures launched within the first movie; and new whale-like creatures.

Returning characters additionally embrace Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine and Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles Quaritch. The movie additionally options some big-name newcomers together with Vin Diesel and Cameron’s Titanic star Kate Winslet. Behind-the-scenes expertise contains director of images Russell Carpenter, Cameron’s Oscar-winning Titanic DP.  Avatar’s visible results are again at Weta FX in New Zealand, once more led by senior VFX supervisor and four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri.

Launched in 2009, Cameron’s Avatar shortly grew to become the top-grossing movie of all time on the worldwide field workplace, with greater than $2.8 billion. It was additionally credited for ushering within the digital 3D period and introducing new manufacturing instruments and strategies in areas similar to efficiency seize and digital manufacturing. Its sequel is without doubt one of the extra anticipated movies of the previous decade.

“We got down to push the bounds to what cinema can do,” mentioned Cameron in a video message from New Zealand, the place he’s making the film. He reminded exhibitors that they’re “companions,” including, “Jon and I are right here with you. We are able to do that.”

Because it has in recent times, CinemaCon sponsor Dolby has outfitted the Colosseum — CinemaCon’s fundamental venue — with Dolby Atmos immersive sound and Dolby Imaginative and prescient, which means they put in the corporate’s premium 4K, excessive dynamic vary, excessive body charge and 3D succesful laser-based projection system. This enabled the Avatar 2 filmmakers to placed on fairly a present.

Cameron, Landau and their Lightstorm Leisure, together with twentieth Century and Disney, is predicted to supply Avatar 2 in all kinds of codecs to help the vary of theater installations, together with the usage of 3D, 4K and a excessive body charge of 48 frames per second.

On Tuesday at CinemaCon, John Fithian, president and CEO of the Nationwide Affiliation of Theatre House owners, famous that Avatar 2 may have extra variations than any film “within the historical past of flicks” when it arrives in theaters: “We’re speaking about excessive decision, excessive body charges, 3D, Imax, PLF, completely different sound methods and in 160 completely different languages.”

“He’s working very carefully with our members all over the world to indicate his film in the absolute best approach,” Fithian mentioned. “Jim is uniquely pushed. He’s sensible. There could also be solely a few hundred screens in [some of the formats] however he desires [Avatar 2] on these screens. It’s time to verify your gentle ranges are right and all the things concerning the image is right. We’re enthusiastic about it.”

Earlier than the discharge of 2009’s Avatar, Cameron created greater than 100 variations of deliverables in numerous gentle ranges, 2D and 3D, resolutions and sound methods. It was probably the most formidable digital launch at the moment.

Cameron beforehand used CinemaCon as a platform to debate the potential of excessive body charges. The filmmaker gave a presentation at CinemaCon 2011 with a comparability of 3D content material — a medieval dinner and motion scene — projected at 24 fps, 48 fps and 60 fps. Because the clips performed, Cameron shared his observations, together with some distracting strobing that happens in 24 fps (which has been blamed for why some viewers get complications when viewing 3D) and pointed to a smoother increased body charge picture.