All about Avatar with James Cameron at Comic-Con 2009
Kristin Adams sits down with James Cameron and his team from Avatar to talk about their highly anticipated 3-D film, as well as the special 15 minute preview for fans in theaters across the country…
James Cameron talks about Avatar
Director says films won’t take nearly as long to make now that they have CG technology figured out.
“Aliens.” “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” James Cameron knows how to make a sequel, revisiting fully created fictional worlds, taking what’s already established and trying to outflank what came before. That’s been the director’s plan since embarking on his technology-revolutionizing quest to being “Avatar” to the big screen, and with the film’s mammoth first weekend behind it, an alien love story sequel we almost certainly shall get. (If you haven’t seen the film already, now would be a good time to stop reading, as spoilers abound below). Continue Reading
A great success that Avatar reached
Back in the day (read: three weeks ago), some people said James Cameron’s weird blue alien movie with its gimmicky 3D effects would flop at the box office. Heck, they had spent so much making this movie and so much marketing it last minute, that there’s no way it would succeed, right? It would never come close to the numbers that Twilight Saga’s New Moon made in November; It wouldn’t even compete against Sherlock Holmes.
Those people were all wrong.
After 17 days, including a December opening weekend record, a record for the largest opening of an original film not based on an existing property (novel, short story) or film (sequel, remake), the biggest second weekend of all time, the biggest third weekend of all time, among many other records, Avatar hit it big amongst critics, fans and the box office; And it’s only the beginning.
Did I mention that it was just 17 days? In 17 days, Avatar has helped James Cameron become the only director ever to have two films cross the $1 billion dollar mark. Continue Reading
A short description about Avatar
Avatar is a 2009 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang. The film is set in the year 2154 on Pandora, a fictional inhabited Earth-like moon in a distant planetary system. Humans are engaged in mining Pandora’s reserves of a precious mineral, while the Na’vi — the sapient race of humanoids indigenous to the moon — resist the colonists’ expansion, which threatens the continued existence of the Na’vi and the Pandoran ecosystem. The film’s title refers to the remotely controlled, genetically engineered human-Na’vi bodies used by the film’s human characters to interact with the natives.
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