It will out do Avengers 2 simply by being a almost 4 generation spanning franchise. You have the original 3 stars in it, you have Abrams at the helm, you have the brand name, oh and Lucas isn't directing which anyone worth their salt as a Geek knows is a good thing. I think Star Wars is gonna break Avatars record personally. The Next trailer is gonna give us a HUGE indication as to where the hype is but come on this is Star Wars.
The thing is, Avatar war a brand new franchise, it didn't have any baggage and people were interested to know what it was about. Star Wars however, is something everyone knows about, almost every person on the planet has some kind of opinion regarding the franchise, and a lot of them are not positive, and i'm not even talking about how the Prequels alienated anyone, it's not as if every person will enjoy the Originals either.
SW will do a lot of money, maybe even more than The Avengers, but more than Avatar? That's a stretch, this is the type of franchise that has a lot of haters and people who will most likely refuse to see it, even if they hear a lot of hype, due to the opinion they already have of the previous films.
While it used to be more mainstream, now, Star Wars is counted among some of the geekiest film series, it's still not ridiculed the way Star Trek is, but some people don't realy seem to have much respect for SW.
Avatar and Titanic were different beasts, when they came out, people had to see them in order to form an opinion, now, Avatar 2's grossing will msot likely be affected due to many not feeling like they want to watch another film in that series.
Star Wars will definitely atract a new generation and break some records, but i doubt it will do Avatar business considering the baggage it has already. But i think fans need to lower their expectation a bit when it comes to the box office grossing.
