Avatar

Avatar is back in theaters, with the 2009 James Cameron movie getting an update for today's technology.

And we do a master for the three and a half foot-lamberts.” The duo’s Lightstorm Entertainment is additionally planning to remaster Titanic in 4K, in high-dynamic range and incorporating a 48-frame-per-second frame rate. And later this year, The Way of Water might encompass the largest number of deliverables ever created for a single movie. “Doing all these things — the 4K, the high dynamic range, the higher frame rate, and the enhanced sound — it transports the audience even more to the world of Pandora.” Landau notes that in those moments, 48-frames-per-second made the image appear smoother and more consistent with what the human eye would see in real life. “Forty-eight frames for us is not something that necessarily needs to be ubiquitous in every shot,” says Landau. Starting Friday, audiences will return to a Pandora full of vivid details and colors that they didn’t see the last time the movie was in cinemas, back when many theaters were equipped with first generation digital cinema projectors paired with new 3D systems. The experience is buoyed by the remastering, coupled with cinemas that offer projection systems capable of doing more than what was possible in 2009. “When Jake enters the rainforest in the nighttime bioluminescence, the colors, and the detail and the range of colors and how rich your blacks can be and how bright your whites can be, without blowing things out, you go, ‘Wow.'” [Avatar](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/avatar/) opened in December 2009 — en route to becoming the biggest movie of all time, topping $2.8 billion at the global box office — for many movie goers, it was the first time they experienced digital 3D. Boyes was the supervising sound editor, designer and rerecording mixer on the original Avatar and returns to this role for Avatar: The Way of Water. Four-time Oscar-winner Christopher Boyes gave the new Avatar master an upgraded mix.