Apparently, the sky really is the limit when it comes to the lengths James Cameron will go to in order to promote both scientific innovation and Avatar‘s upcoming Blu-ray collectors’ edition box set. Cameron was amongst 30 individuals on a special flight of the Zero G Experience this past Saturday that auctioned off not only the chance …
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Panasonic Bets the Bank: Avatar, Future of Cinema, to Be Future of 3D TV
Once upon a time, back in the glory days of Hollywood’s studio system, vertical integration was the key. If a studio made a film, you could probably only see that movie in their theaters. From the ground up, until the Supreme Court struck it all down of course, the studios tried to perfect an insulated little system that they could …
Piranha 3D Producer Responds to Cameron’s Negative Comments: “Jim, Are You Kidding Or What?”
Mark Canton, producer of Piranha 3D, is not letting James Cameron bad-mouth his movie without putting his two cents in.
“Let’s just keep this in mind Jim… you did not invent 3D,” he retorted.
James Cameron voiced his clear displeasure with the Piranha 3D movie to Vanity Fair, saying he had zero sense of nostalgia when the new …
Blizzard: We’d Love James Cameron to Direct Starcraft, Too
MTV Multiplayer‘s posted a nerdgasm-inducing bit of info that could bring two awesome sci-fi visions together, if we all wish hard enough. In an interview with MTV’s Russ Frushtick, Rob Pardo–Blizzard’s Executive Vice President of Game Design–offered up the following observation about moving their game franchises onto the silver …
Origins: What Influences James Cameron
Each film he directs is more epic than the last. Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Titanic…and, of course, Avatar. That last film, a 3-D extravaganza that quickly became the highest-grossing movie of all time, was re-released August 27 with nine additional minutes of footage. Cameron spoke to TIME’s Rebecca …
Avatar’s Nine New Minutes: The Best 3D of 2010?
Avatar is now officially back in movie theaters – only in 3D, with nine additional minutes of footage to woo all of those loyal fans who were still enamored with the glowing forests of Pandora when the movie was prematurely yanked from the nation’s theaters to make way for Alice in Wonderland in March.
I bought a ticket for the …
Now There’s Going To Be A Cleaner Aliens Special Edition?
James Cameron really is doing all he can to become the new George Lucas, isn’t he? Not content with adopting the heavily greenscreened, CGI-created atmosphere of the Star Wars prequels with Avatar, now he’s going back and “fixing” earlier movies even though no-one asked him to. Bleeding Cool caught Cameron’s reference to a new Aliens …
The Daily Dose
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Up Front:
At Last We Will See What Sweet, Sweet Hot Na’vi Foreplay Looks Like [Defamer]
Gadgets:
Twitter Has Brand New Button [Twitter Blog]
Time Warner Cable iPad App To Deliver On-Demand TV Streaming [Gizmodo]
We’re Getting Closer To …
Is Ryan Reynolds The New Sam Worthington?
It’s got to be nice to be Ryan Reynolds these days. He’s still shooting Green Lantern, the big budget version of DC Comics’ successful space cop superhero, with a sequel script already in the works and talk of a third film to be shot at the same time as the second, he’s attached to movie versions of both RIPD (as a supernatural cop) and …
Comic-Con: From Saw to Drive Angry, the 3-D Hard Sell is On
Right before hopping a plane for Comic-Con, I was on vacation with my family, and I found myself engaged in a vigorous debate about the value of 3-D.
Most people said they were sick of the whole fad, and I kept telling them that I had been in the same boat, until I sat down to see Avatar last December.
(More on Techland: Comic-Con: …
Avatar Heads Back To Theaters Aug. 27: Watch The New Trailer
Because James Cameron really loves to make a huge pile of money even bigger, mega-hit Avatar is headed back into theaters in late August.
(More on Techland: Is James Cameron About To Piss Off All Of Hollywood?)
If you remember, Cameron and FOX were pretty peeved after Avatar was kicked off of screens to make way for Disney’s Alice …
The First Airbender: Shyamalan Talks Trilogies, Operatic Action and the Casting Controversy
It’s finally opening day for The Last Airbender, the epic Avatar adaptation that arrives under a gloom of mean-spirited and short-sighted reviews, many outraged about the racial issues surrounding its casting. More on that a bit later with my review.
A couple of days ago, in the lead-up to the chaos, we were able to snag M. Night …