How Many Avatar Movies Are There?

There are three Avatar movies released so far, and two more, Avatar 4 and Avatar 5, are planned. James Cameron directed all three released films, and each reached US theaters in December, in 2009, 2022 and 2025.

If you want the sequence in which to watch them, the Avatar movies in order page covers it, and the Avatar movies hub gives the wider picture of the saga.

The released films are Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash, and they follow one family on the moon Pandora. Avatar 2009, directed by James Cameron, opens in 2154, when a company called the RDA mines a valuable mineral on Pandora, home of the blue Na'vi. Sam Worthington plays Jake Sully, a paralyzed former Marine who takes his dead twin brother's place in a program that lets humans control Na'vi bodied avatars, and Zoe Saldaña plays Neytiri, who brings him to her clan, the Omaticaya. According to Box Office Mojo, it took $2.92 billion worldwide on a $237 million budget.

Avatar the Way of Water jumps ahead sixteen years. Jake now leads the Omatikaya clan and raises four children with Neytiri, and when the RDA returns the family leaves the forest to shelter with the sea dwelling Metkayina, whose leaders are played by Kate Winslet (Ronal) and Cliff Curtis (Tonowari). Sigourney Weaver, who played Dr. Grace Augustine in the first film, returns as a different character, Kiri. Box Office Mojo reports $2.33 billion worldwide on a $460 million budget, and Disney has described its underwater capture work, which used a large tank and trained free diving rather than scuba gear.

Avatar Fire and Ash premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on December 1, 2025, and reached US theaters on December 19, 2025. It introduces Varang, played by Oona Chaplin, who leads a ruthless Na'vi clan, and it is the longest of the three. Box Office Mojo lists $1.49 billion worldwide against a $400 million budget. For the full money picture across the saga, see the Avatar box office page.

All three films stream on Disney+ in the US, UK and Australia as of November 2026, and the where to watch Avatar page gives the rent and buy options per country.

Avatar 4 and Avatar 5 are the only further films with dates attached, so the planned total is five, although neither is confirmed in the way a film in production would be. According to WION, Disney's schedule lists Avatar 4 for December 21, 2029, and that date moved from 2026 when Disney reshuffled its slate in June 2023, as TheWrap reported at the time. TheWrap's April 2026 report on the franchise's future gives Avatar 5 as 2031, and both dates remain reported rather than confirmed. No Avatar 6 or Avatar 7 has been dated.

The status is looser than the dates suggest. TheWrap described the 2029 date as tentative in April 2026, and Cameron said at the March 8 Saturn Awards that a fourth film is likely but not 100 percent, adding that no decision to go forward had been made. Producer Rae Sanchini, by contrast, said the team is full speed ahead. Scripts for the next films are reportedly complete, with Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno named as writers, and Michelle Yeoh was announced in 2019 as Dr. Karina Mogue.

If you are tracking the next release, the Avatar 4 trailer page will show whether anything official has appeared.

Avatar 3 is finished and released as Fire and Ash, while Avatar 4 is only partly shot, according to an unconfirmed report. An insider told TheWrap in April 2026 that about 22 percent of Avatar 4 was filmed during the Fire and Ash production. TheWrap also reported talks about making future films cheaper and shorter, and an unconfirmed suggestion that Cameron might hand the series to a younger filmmaker, as he did with Alita: Battle Angel. Treat all of that as rumor until Disney or Cameron says it.

No, Avatar: The Last Airbender is not part of this count. The count here covers only the Avatar films directed by James Cameron from 20th Century Studios, set on Pandora. For the people involved, the Avatar cast page lists who returns from film to film, and the Avatar timeline shows how the story runs between them.