Posts Tagged ‘James Cameron’

At this years 82nd Annual Academy Awards the battle between 2D and 3D was truly on. James Cameron’s 3D epic ‘Avatar’ was up against his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow’s 2D war-zone drama ‘The Hurt Locker’. Avatar was nominated for nine awards in total but only won three of its categories. It won Oscars for; Best Art Direction, Cinematography and Visual Effects.

The majority of people expected Avatar to come out victorious in the Best Picture and Director categories, however ‘The Hurt Locker’ blew Avatar away and won the ceremonies two big Oscars. Read the rest of this entry »

Cameron settling down? Not at all. He is already preparing for a fresh underwater 3D drama called Sanctum. Not only is it a more intimate and much smaller project than Avatar, but it’s Cameron’s chance to prove that 3-D can be used well in movies that aren’t big blockbusters.

Sanctum is being directed by Australian filmmaker and Tropfest winner Alister Grierson and features an Aussie cast including: Rhys Wakefield (7’s “Home and Away”), Allison Cratchley (7’s “All Saints”), Richard Roxburgh (Van Helsing), Alice Parkinson (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Daniel Wyllie (Animal Kingdom).

Inspired by a real experience that producer Andrew Wight went through, Sanctum will show how he ended up trapped with 14 other people in a cave system for two days. “It’s really a character driven piece and the 3-D should only be part of enhancing the experience,” Cameron says.

James Cameron recently revealed the release dates of a 3D Blu-ray version of Avatar to the Wall Street Journal in an interview. His exciting revelation is now unfortunately being contradicted as Fox Home Entertainment stepped up to the podium to shoot down Cameron’s claims. According to Fox, the claims of a 3D Blu-ray version of Avatar been available in November of this year are false.

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The IMAX Corporation revealed that IMAX screenings of Avatar passed the $200 million mark this weekend. Now in its tenth weekend, Avatar grossed $4.3 million from 179 IMAX theaters domestically. Avatar also took $3.9 million from 84 IMAX theaters internationally.

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Another Avatar related story here for you. According to the Italian ministry of health, the use of 3D technology in the hit movie Avatar presents a health risk to audiences. So far 7,000 sets of 3D glasses have been confiscated from Italian cinemas and even more could be taken by the ministry. The officials claim that the glasses used in cinemas hold potential hygiene risks if they are not cleaned properly in-between screenings. The 7,000 sets of 3D viewing glasses were confiscated because they failed to display any official tags stating that they had been tested and they would not present any risk of short-term vision damage to users. Despite the glasses getting confiscated, Avatar is still the number one grossing film in Italy.

Although no official release date for Avatar on Blu-ray or DVD has been announced, James Cameron revealed his own thoughts on the matter recently in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. James Cameron, who now plays father to the world’s two highest grossing movies of all time announced that we can expect a 3D Blu-ray version of Avatar in November. “It’s all right on schedule. We’ll do the Blu-ray and the standard def DVD April 22nd, that’s our plan as of right now  and that’ll be pretty much bare bones. And then we’ll do a value-added DVD and a 3-D Blu-ray in I think November sometime.”

The 3D blockbuster Avatar has officially become the largest grossing movie of all time. Last week the film over took Titanic to become the highest grossing film worldwide, however it still hadn’t topped Titanic’s domestic grossing of $600 million. Since 1998, Titanic (another James Cameron epic) had ruled the ranking tables effortlessly, but now the futuristic Avatar has sunk the historical movie to second place.

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According to reports, a mountain in China has been renamed to honor James Camerons 3D epic, Avatar. The Southern Sky Column in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province is claimed to of inspired the scenery in the sci-fi adventure. The mountains new name is reported to be, the Avatar Hallelujah Mountain. Local Chinese officials said that images of the mountain were used as the basis for Pandora’s stunning landscape. To date, Avatar has made $80 million at the Chinese box office which makes it the most popular film ever in China, despite the movie having all its 2D theater versions cancelled.

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Titanic will sink once again thanks to James Cameron’s 3D blockbuster Avatar. The 3D sci-fi adventure movie has grossed a massive $1.858 billion in just 39 days of been released and its earnings are increasing by the second. Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic grossed a total of $1.843 billion when it was released 13 years ago. Avatar is also expected to take the US domestic record soon and leave Titanic feeling the Avatar blues. Currently, Avatar is in second place on the U.S domestic rankings, with a gross of $551 million, however It is rapidly catching up to Titanic’s $600.8 million and it is expected to become the new record holder in the next few weeks.

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AVATAR is making big news in the Orient this week.  In China, all 2D versions of the movie are to be pulled from the cinema to make way for a patriotic biopic on Confucius. Now it has been revealed that a 42 year old Taiwanese man has died ‘from excitement’ after watching James Cameron’s 3D blockbuster.

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