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Don’t Be Blue: ‘Avatar’ Named Most Pirated Movie of All Time
Jake Sully may have saved Pandora from destruction, but it doesn’t look like he was able to do the same for the American movie industry. Just two years after being released, James Cameron’s Avatar has been named the most pirated movie of all time in a new study by TorrentFreak.
At an estimated 21 million downloads, Cameron’s …
James Cameron: All Movie Theaters 3D in Five Years
Not content to persuade consumers that 3D movies are a good idea per blockbusters like Avatar, James Cameron has a new company to make it easier for people to broadcast in 3D.
The Cameron-Pace Group – named for Cameron and his partner in developing the Fusion 3D camera system, Vince Pace – was announced yesterday at the National …
Study: Virtual Reality Personas Influence How You Act In The Real World
Some people create virtual characters to escape reality, but a new study is showing that your virtual persona might have more influence on your real life than you think. Research completed at the Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) at Stanford University in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that when an avatar …
2010’s Most-Viewed Video on Demand Movies: Not What You’d Think
James Cameron’s Avatar may have ruled the box office, won countless awards and earned itself two separate DVD/Blu-Ray releases in the space of a year, but there’s one place where it doesn’t rule supreme: Video on Demand.
According to Comcast, who have released a list of 2010’s most viewed VoD movies, Cameron’s special-effects-heavy …
James Cameron Gives “Avatar” Cast A Prius For Christmas
What better way to say “Thank you for starring in my blockbuster movie” at the holidays than buying someone a Prius? Well, potentially lots of things, but Avatar director James Cameron isn’t a fan of any of them. Deadline is reporting that Cameron and producer Jon Landau are buying blue Priuses for each of the eleven principal cast …
Avatar Gets Its Own Museum Exhibit
If you just can’t wait until the next “Avatar” movie, get to Seattle. On June 4, 2011, the Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum (EMP|SFM) is opening AVATAR: The Exhibition. They’ve featured awesome other exhibits, like right now they’ve got features on Battlestar Galactica and Nirvana. For the Avatar one, you’ll see props, …
Meet The Geniuses Behind James Cameron’s Avatar
It’s easy to refer to Avatar as “James Cameron’s Avatar” – After all, he wrote, directed and produced it, as well as came up with some of the ideas behind many of the technical advances involved in actually making the whole thing. To promote the new Blu-Ray Special Edition release of the movie (released today), however, Cameron stepped …
How George Lucas Changed Special Effects in Filmmaking Forever
When a young filmmaker named George Lucas pitched his idea for a space saga, FOX and most people were wondering how he was going to pull it off. The movie called for more cuts, action sequences and imaginative landscapes that had never been done before. When the studio asked him how he planed to do that, though Lucas had no clue he …
How the Amazon Rainforest Made Avatar 2 a Priority
One of the things that didn’t get as much attention as it probably should have about the announcement that James Cameron has agreed to make Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 his next projects was that, in order to convince him, 20th Century Fox made a “huge donation” to his environmental green fund. If that doesn’t underline Cameron’s dedication to …
Avatar 2 And 3 Confirmed For 2014, 2015
Fox has announced that James Cameron’s next two movies will be Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, with production beginning next year and the release of the movies planned for December 2014 and 2015, respectively. The news is surprising only insofar as it means that Cameron won’t be involved in Sony’s rumored 3D Cleopatra movie starring Angelina …
New Avatar En Route Soon, Just Not In Movie Theaters
You won’t see a sequel to James Cameron’s Avatar in movie theaters for the next few years, according to the director, but that doesn’t mean that you’ll be starved of new product set in Pandora. Speaking at a press event to promote next month’s 3-disc Blu-Ray release of a new special edition of the movie, Cameron talked about plans to …