Even in today's difficult market, James Cameron's "Avatar" series has proven its box office prowess beyond any reasonable doubt. After "Avatar: The Way of Water" became Cameron's third $2 billion movie at the global box office (alongside "Titanic" and, of course, the first "Avatar"), you'd expect that studio executives would be throwing money at him to make as many sequels as humanly possible. And yet.

In an interview with Discussing Film's Andrew J. Salazar , Cameron talked about the moment when he decided to split the planned second "Avatar" movie into two separate films, thus creating a fifth "Avatar" movie. He also revealed that while he told his people about this before notifying the studio and reassured them a fifth film wouldn't be a problem, it turned out that the studio wasn'

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