Director James Cameron appeared to take issue with some fans after a special screening of his latest film — “Avatar: The Way of Water” — flipping them the bird when they booed him for refusing to stop and sign a few autographs.

According to entertainment website TMZ, Cameron was at the WGA building in Beverly Hills on Saturday for the special screening — and when he went to leave, he was immediately surrounded by a crowd of fans clamoring for autographs.

As Cameron stepped into a waiting vehicle without stopping to sign anything, the crowd flipped on the famed director. “F*** Avatar,” someone said — and Cameron responded by rolling down his window just far enough to flash his middle finger at the crowd.

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The long-awaited sequel to Cameron’s visually stunning 2009 film has done well at the box office so far, bringing in $134 million in North America and an additional $301 million from overseas markets — which places “The Way of Water” near the top for post-COVID opening weekends — but that may not be enough to balance the scales.

“The Way of Water” still fell short of the predicted $150-175 million for it’s first weekend in North American theaters — and with a $350 million price tag just for making the film, not to mention marketing it, the latest “Avatar” installment reportedly needs to land high among the top-grossing films of all time if producers expect to break even on the project.

But Cameron appears to have bet everything on the world he has created — he told GQ in November that he had already filmed the third installment in the series and the first act of a fourth film. When GQ pressed him on the possibility that, given his age, he might not ever make another film that was not a part of the franchise, he pushed back.

“I think first of all, that’s really unhealthy. Secondly, I’m not done until the big hook comes out from the side of the side curtain. So to me, everything, every idea, is a work in progress,” he said.

Disney seems confident that Cameron’s gamble will pay off as well. Tony Chambers, Disney’s EVP for theatrical distribution, said, “We’ve got a terrific movie that is playing across all demographics and (has) terrific word of mouth. We’ve got the screens and we’ve got a clear run. This isn’t about the opening day or the opening weekend. This is about the entire run.”

CNN’s Jim Acosta appears to be the latest in a growing list of journalists whose Twitter accounts have been restricted during a flurry of changes overseen by CEO Elon Musk.

In an interview with Insider columnist Linette Lopez, whose Twitter account has been suspended, Acosta said his account was locked overnight after he promoted his accounts on other social media platforms, including Post and Mastodon.

“One of my tweets was found to have violated Twitter’s new rule about promoting other sites,” he said, adding later that he is “still trying to sort it out.”

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Acosta, who made a name for himself during the last administration clashing with former President Donald Trump, was referring to a new policy that was established as users shared links to their accounts on other social media sites during a turbulent time for Twitter under Musk’s leadership.

“We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter,” Twitter support said Sunday.

“Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post,” the account added.

Acosta’s Twitter user name takes advertising other social media platforms to another level, as it was changed to: “Jim Acosta is also on Post and Mastodon.”

Another policy change last week entailed banning users from sharing or posting links to real-time location information. A handful of journalists, among others, were suspended in that crackdown.

Among them was CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan, who like the others was reinstated after Musk conducted a public poll, but he said on Saturday he was not allowed to tweet again unless he takes down a post about an account that tracked Musk’s private jet. CNN said it would “reevaluate” its relationship with Twitter depending on the explanation given for the suspensions.

The Daily Wire reached out to Twitter asking for comment in response to Acosta and Lopez who said her account is still suspended and has not heard anything from the social media company. There is some history between Musk and Lopez, who investigated him and his other businesses over the years. In 2018, Musk accused Lopez of writing “false articles” about one of his other companies, Tesla.

Musk seems to be having second thoughts about the way in which he’s implemented policy tweaks at Twitter.

In a series of tweets Sunday, he conceded, “Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme,” and then said, “Policy will be adjusted to suspending accounts only when that account’s *primary* purpose is promotion of competitors, which essentially falls under the no spam rule.”

Musk followed with another tweet that said: “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.”

The “Chief Twit” then shared a poll asking users to vote on whether he should step down as head of Twitter. “I will abide by the results of this poll,” Musk said. The poll, which after two hours had more than 5 million votes, is scheduled to end early Monday morning.