Bob Iger Calls ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ “Absolutely Breathtaking” Based On Early Cut, Unveils New Footage From ‘Lilo & Stitch’, ‘Alien: Earth’

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In a splashy 20-minute introductory segment at Disney‘s annual shareholder meeting, CEO Bob Iger touted a handful of film and TV projects as the company looks to maintain recent studio momentum.

Avatar: Fire and Ash, Lilo & Stitch and Alien: Earth were three titles given a high profile, including some new footage of the latter two. (A replay of the meeting will be posted Thursday afternoon on Disney’s investor relations website, with film and TV projects detailed between the 8-minute and 12-minute marks.) Iger said he has seen “an early cut” of the upcoming third installment of director James Cameron’s billion-dollar Avatar franchise. “I can tell you that it is absolutely breathtaking,” he said.

While no new images or footage was revealed from the three-hour-plus Cameron epic, which will bow December 19, a “special extended look” at Lilo & Stitch was shown during the livestreamed meeting.

It was a roughly 90-second sequence including scenes not featured in the film’s recently released trailer. Similarly, while FX’s Alien: Earth (derived from the long-running sci-fi thriller franchise) has recently been showcased in a teaser, Iger introduced a “special sneak peek” of it.