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'Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender’ Will Skip Theaters (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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The upcoming feature The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender will bypass a theatrical debut in theaters in October 2026 and premiere on Paramount+ as the streamer becomes the exclusive home of all animated content from Avatar Studios, the creative force behind the beloved and acclaimed Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Ditto for the new series Avatar: Seven Havens. Both animated projects are being produced by Avatar Studios, which was formed in 2021 under Nickelodeon as a division designed to create a new, ever-growing universe based on the worlds of Avatar and subsequent series, The Legend of Korra.

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[–] 35 points 10 months ago (4 children)

An interesting strategy. I'd have paid to go watch it at the cinema. No way in hell am I getting a sub to watch it though.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Same! I'm allergic to DRM. I will watch it though :)

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    • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I was just looking yesterday to see if they finally gave the original series a proper remaster for blu ray. Nope. Still a shitty HD upscale.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's a digital production, there won't be a magical "someone found the original print" moment with it.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    True, but that hasn't kept other digitally-sourced animations from rerendering in 4k for modern times. Takes a bit of work, but the fans would gobble it up.

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    • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    fortunatelly, Paramount+ is included in my high seas subscription

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    From all the stuff I've heard about this new Avatar series and having recently watched an hour plus long video on Kora, it makes me want to rewatch all of Kora again because I'm genuinely excited to see if this Seven Havens series is gonna be good.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly I tried rewatching Korra recently cause my partner had never watched Avatar so we were watching the whole thing. We couldn't make it through Korra, it was just painful. The Korra's dynamic with pretty much all the villains were fucking shit. The Equalists and Zaheer easily being the worst. Zaheer was the worst in my opinion. The Equalists felt entirely unresolved, and Zaheer just felt like an inconsistent strawman. It sucks cause the Equalists in particular were an interesting villain with a lot of potential, but they just dismissed it all by being like "oh the leader is a liar, so I guess we can just ignore the valid concerns and problems that birthed the movement in the first place."

    I'm hoping the new show does better.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    The one plus side to the Equalists not feeling resolved properly means that I now have a very solid writeup for my Avatar Legends campaign that I'm running where I can make the Equalists the primary antagonist and my party can basically do what the avatar forgot to after the Water tribe civil war started. Seriously though, even if they weren't the primary villains anymore, that movement wasn't founded from nothing A on just helped it along, there's no reason it couldn't keep showing up in small ways throughout the series.

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    [–] 19 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Seeing as Paramount/CBS are going full fascist, think I’ll pass thanks.

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    • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    Booooo!

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    [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Wtf? Why not in theaters?

    Are movie theaters against playing good movies now? I notice they rarely have anything worth going to see anymore

    I have no reason to pay for movie tickets or pay for this movie if this is how it's gonna be. I guess I'll pirate this and everything else

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    • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I'm sure this has nothing to do with Spongebob flopping.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I GuESs PeOpLe DoNt lIkE AvAtAr

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