Variety:

James Cameron’s long-awaited and oft-delayed follow-up to “Avatar" has been pushed back another year. “Avatar 2" will hit theaters on Dec. 17, 2021 instead of Dec. 18, 2020 as originally planned. Its move means that “Avatar 3" will open on Dec. 22, 2023 as opposed to Dec. 17, 2021 while “Avatar 4" will bow on Dec. 19, 2025 instead of Dec. 20, 2024 and “Avatar 5" will launch Dec. 17, 2027. The news comes as part of a larger shift in release dates unveiled by Walt Disney Studios. The company is changing the debuts of various films it inherited after buying the bulk of 21st Century Fox’s film and television assets in a $71.3 billion mega-merger.

As part of the great release date shake-up, Disney announced that three new untitled Star Wars films will start hitting theaters in Dec. 16 2022. There will be two other follow-ups during the Christmas corridor in 2024 and 2026. Disney is poised to dominate around Christmas for the foreseeable future. The studio is alternating between “Avatar" and “Star Wars" films every year through 2027 starting in 2021. In 2020, Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story" adaptation" will bow on Dec. 18, while “Cruella" will launch Dec. 23 ahead of the long holiday weekend.

Other release date changes of note:

• Ad Astra, a Brad Pitt-lead astronaut drama was pushed from Memorial Day weekend to September 20, 2019
• The New Mutants has been pushed back again, to April 2020
• Artemis Fowl is now a May 2020 release.

Crazy stuff.

Is there actually going to be anyone interested in the four Avatar sequels by the time they release?