'Avatar' sequel crashes some movie theater equipment across Japan

The second Avatar film, one of the most expensive productions in Hollywood history, adopts many of the latest visual technologies which require a great deal of information processed quickly

Walt Disney Co.’s Avatar: The Way of Water crashed screening equipment in some theaters across Japan, running into technical difficulties during its critical opening weekend in the country.
 

Audiences who went to see the James Cameron sequel took to social media to report abrupt cancellations and staff apologizing about machine troubles while issuing refunds. At least one theater lowered the frame rate of the film in half in order to be able to screen it.

The second Avatar film, one of the most expensive productions in Hollywood history, adopts many of the latest visual technologies, including a high frame-rate 3D