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Weekend Box Office - Winter Holds Avatar to $73 Million Domestic; $232 Million Worldwide
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The huge, blue debut of James Cameron’s Avatar ran headlong into the huge, white debut of winter of yesterday, with much of the East Coast kept out of theatres by crazy bouts of snow. As a result, one of the most anticipated December debuts of the decade could only score the second best all-time numbers for the month with $73 million over three days reported from 3,457 theatres. Worldwide the news was much better for Avatar, with 20th Century Fox now estimating an impressive $158 million haul. That means Avatar has made $232 million worldwide in just a few days. Only three more weeks like that and this baby will be in the black! I mean, blue. Avatar will be in the blue.
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Weekend
Total
1
Avatar
$73,000,000
$73
2
The Princess & the Frog
$12,224,000
$44.7
3
The Blind Side
$10,030,000
$164.7
4
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
$7,000,000
$7
5
New Moon
$4,370,000
$274.5
6
Invictus
$4,170,000
$15.8
7
A Christmas Carol
$3,419,000
$130.7
8
Up in the Air
$3,100,000
$8.1
9
Brothers
$2,630,000
$22
10
Old Dogs
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Avatar -- movie review
19 December 2009 1:43 PM, PST
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It takes some mighty big balls to stand before tens of millions of television viewers, raise your Oscar-filled hands, and exclaim “I’m the King of the World!” James Cameron was quoting Titanic -- the film for which he had just won a record-tying 11 Academy Awards -- but still, no one has ever accused this man of overt humility. Yet after Titanic went on to earn $1.8 billion in global box office, perhaps the visionary filmmaker had earned the right to such a claim. His previous films, The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, and True Lies were all eye-popping, audience-pleasing, envelope-pushing, genre-defying blockbusters, each of which helped prepare him to make that little boat movie. So how does one top the most successful film of all time?
If you are James Cameron, and your visions are beyond what current effects-work can handle, you spend the next 12 years creating the technology to
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Review: 'Avatar': The rumors are true, this movie is visually stunning
18 December 2009 3:29 PM, PST
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Easily one of the most hyped movies of the decade, James Cameron's Avatar is supposed to be a benchmark of innovation and special effects. It's supposed to be the movie that changes film forever, so the big question on everyone's mind is, is Avatar the heralded "game changer" that will set the bar for future effects-driven fare? Does it meet all those lofty expectations? Yes...to a point. Avatar is visually the most stunning film seen for quite some time and possibly ever. Thinking back to past films with groundbreaking effects, I find a fistful of James Cameron films like The Terminator, The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, along with sporadic George Lucas features, which were all equally filmed in Real 3D (the cameras used on this production were specially designed). Cameron's Avatar mostly avoids 3D tricks like rolling logs towards audiences, spears thrown at you and lots
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Zoe Saldana's 'Avatar' Role Is Simply The Latest Of James Cameron's Powerful Leading Ladies
18 December 2009 3:00 PM, PST
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As Neytiri, the Na'vi warrior woman that forges a bond with paraplegic marine Jake Sully in "Avatar," Zoe Saldana is the latest actress to transform herself into a powerful heroine at the hands of director James Cameron.
In fact, if there's one thing that Cameron excels at — other than groundbreaking visual effects, awe-inspiring stories and epically orchestrated action sequences, of course — it's his development of strong female characters.
While Neytiri is certainly one such character, she is merely the latest in a long line of brilliantly crafted women in Cameron's films. Here are some of the others. (click the image above the text to check out our James Cameron Heroines flipbook gallery!)
Ellen Ripley
Although not created by Cameron, the filmmaker took Sigourney Weaver's character of Ellen Ripley to new heights in "Aliens," the action-packed sequel to Ridley Scott's claustrophobic thriller, "Alien." Ripley went from being the survivor
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- Josh Wigler
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How Would The Na'vi Of 'Avatar' Stack Up Against James Cameron's Other Creatures?
18 December 2009 1:00 PM, PST
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James Cameron is no stranger to creating new forms of menacing cinematic creatures, though he may have finally topped himself in "Avatar" with the Na'vi.
There is certainly no shortage of dangerous flora and fauna that exists on the mysterious world of Pandora, but it's the Na'vi that pose the biggest threat thanks to their intelligence, speed, size and several other factors. It also doesn't help that human marines can link their brains up with Avatar versions of the alien race, adding a whole new skill set to a certain breed of Na'vi warrior.
Still, it's hard to say whether or not the Na'vi could hold their own against some of Cameron's other creations. Since we aren't likely to ever witness these showdowns, let's settle for the next best thing — hypothetical cage matches!
Na'vi versus Terminators
The express purpose of a Terminator's existence is to kill anything in its
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- Josh Wigler
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'Avatar' Is A Giant Leap For Effects, Just Like Madonna, Michael Jackson And Korn
18 December 2009 8:59 AM, PST
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After years of hype and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, "Avatar" has finally hit theaters. The early buzz has been excellent, which bodes well for James Cameron's futuristic sci-fi allegory that takes place on a distant planet called Pandora. The film stars Sam Worthington as a paraplegic marine who goes on a special mission to the planet and finds his loyalties divided between science and the military.
But when you get right down to it, the story of "Avatar" is hardly the point. Cameron spent gobs of money on the look and effects of the film, most notably the blue, dreadlocked alien race called the Na'vi. When you include the intense battle sequences and the 3-D visuals, it adds up to one of the most jaw-dropping effects-based spectacles in cinema history.
"Avatar" is one of those ground-breaking moments, an event where the technology takes a giant leap forward and the game changes forever.
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Review: ‘Avatar’ is amazing, even with a mediocre story
18 December 2009 6:35 AM, PST
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Easily one of the most hyped movies of the decade, James Cameron’s Avatar is supposed to be a benchmark of innovation and special effects. It’s supposed to be the movie that changes film forever, so the big question on everyone’s mind is, is Avatar the heralded “game changer” that will set the bar for future effects-driven fare? Does it meet all those lofty expectations? Yes…to a point. Avatar is visually the most stunning film seen for quite some time and possibly ever. Thinking back to past films with groundbreaking effects, I find a fistful of James Cameron films like The Terminator, The Abyss and Terminator II: Judgment Day, along with sporadic George Lucas features, which were all equally filmed in Real 3D (the cameras used on this production were specially designed). Cameron’s Avatar mostly avoids 3D tricks like rolling logs towards audiences, spears thrown at
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- Erik Buckman
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Movie Review - 'Avatar'
18 December 2009 2:44 AM, PST
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Avatar
Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver
Directed by James Cameron
Rated PG-13
James Cameron is one of the few filmmakers who has the luxury not only of working at his own pace but also of waiting to work at his
own pace until the available technology catches up with his imagination. He has been afforded that luxury, of course, because of
Titanic, but Cameron's techno tinkering goes back years before that.
You can see his handiwork in a number of films; I like to point out The Abyss, for which Cameron and his brother invented new
underwater cameras, something they'd do again with the IMAX documentary, Ghosts of the Abyss.
But his new film, Avatar, is easily the most ambitious film he's ever made, which automatically qualifies it to be among the
most ambitious films anyone has ever made. That's the good news, or at least, it's part of the good news.
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- Colin Boyd
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David Thomson on James Cameron
17 December 2009 3:55 PM, PST
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Is Avatar the film that will finally sink James Cameron? All signs point that way – but don't forget, this is the man who salvaged Titanic
Everyone thinks James Cameron is going down this time, as in Down, Down … Deep Down. Cameron included. So he has been laying off bets on himself: if the wondrous special effects prove less than wonderful, he says, then he wants Avatar, his new film, to be noted for its spiritual qualities. So the budget is estimated at $230m and the demented film world smiles in the glare of such numbers and contemplates Cameron's fall. (By the way, a film about Jim's demise would make its money back in southern California alone.)
His ruin has always been there for the begging. When he roared out on Oscar night, 1998, "I'm king of the world," as he clutched the Titanic Oscars, he was alluding to the way that in every film,
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- David Thomson
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The James Cameron DVD Collection (Titanic/Aliens/The Abyss)
17 December 2009 10:51 AM, PST
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: Titanic: Nothing on earth can rival the epic spectacle and breathtaking grandeur of Titanic. Winner of eleven Academy Awards® including Best Picture, this sweeping love story sailed into the hearts of moviegoers around the globe, ultimately emerging as the most popular motion picture of all time.
Aliens: The only survivor of the Nostromo’s deadly encounter with the alien, Ripley’s escape pod floats in space for 57 years. After being rescued, Ripley is stunned when her story is met with disbelief. Then all communication is lost with the colonists who’ve settled on the alien planet. When the Company asks Ripley to accompany a team of high-tech colonial Marines back to Lv-426, she refuses. But she ultimately realizes that the only way to banish
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How Avatar Happened: Lightcycles And Giant Lizards On The Path To Innovation
15 December 2009 10:30 PM, PST
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Since talk of Avatar first began, it has been touted as the kind of groundbreaking cinematic experience that will change the future of filmmaking forever. Whether that is truth or the product of an out of control James Cameron ego has yet to be determined (any psychics out there?), but anyone who has already seen the film or was present for the 15-minute screening on Avatar Day can tell you that it is a step forward.
Avatar pushes computer graphics to the very edge of what's possible, particularly in IMAX 3D. Cameron's no stranger to game-changing special effects, with The Abyss he had a hand in creating first fully digital 3D water effect, in Terminator 2: Judgment Day he had the first CGI human character with realistic movement, and in Titanic he used the advanced the rendering of flowing water. Avatar may be another step, but before we take it,
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Buzz Break: All This Needs is Joan and the Accordion
15 December 2009 11:45 AM, PST
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· Why yes, that is Mad Men's Rich Sommer (dressed as a baby) standing with Weird Al Yankovic. And why wouldn't it be?
· Quentin Tarantino has begun listing his top movies of 2009, and sadly, there's not an Anything Else-level head scratcher among them.
· Calvin Klein wants to make musclebound Twilight actor Kellan Lutz its new, underwear-clad Mark Wahlberg.
· Here is your important IMDb comment thread of the day, concerning Mel Gibson's upcoming take on the British miniseries Edge of Darkness: "Will He Kiss His Daughter's Dildo in the Remake?"
· James Cameron almost died while making The Abyss, the new book The Futurist reveals. So take that, Ed Harris!
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Avatar Watch: James Cameron + Cast Interview
15 December 2009 4:19 AM, PST
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Coming Soon has an interview with James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington about the film, which everyone who watches tv should be familiar with. Avatar opens this Thursday at 12:01 Am, and the building buzz spiked ever-so-slightly with yesterday’s Best Picture win at the New York Film Critics Online Awards.
Among the questions asked in the interview, conducted at a London press conference for the film, Cameron is asked what he feels the film loses upon being viewed in 2-D, and Worthington explains how he dealt with the pressure of being part of such a momentous undertaking.
Also, Cameron answers at least one interview question as follows:
Q: I think one of the most important things in the film is about seeing and the difference between truly seeing and just seeing. Can you talk about that aspect of the film?
Cameron: Ah, “The Abyss.” That is a great question…
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James Cameron On Past And Future Plans To Shoot In Outer Space
14 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST
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James Cameron, director of "Avatar" doesn't ever do things halfway. The time it took the boat in "Titanic" sunk mirrored the time the actual boat took to sink. The shoot for "The Abyss" lasted roughly half a year, with the cast clocking insane numbers of hours each week, much of that time spent underwater. And then there's the so-called "game-changer" that is "Avatar," a thoroughly gripping deep space adventure shot in extremely impressive 3-D.
The next stop for Cameron could be outer space, assuming he gets his way. Not "Avatar"'s beautifully rendered digital landscapes, mind you. Actual outer space. Like 6+ miles over the surface of the Earth. As Cameron exclusively told MTV's Josh Horowitz, he was at one point deep into the process of planning a trip into the stratosphere.
"I had it worked out with the Russians, with the Energia Corporation," he explained. "I had a contract and I'd begun training,
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A Cameron Cornucopia – The Value of James Cameron
13 December 2009 6:37 PM, PST
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We are on the cusp of the debut of one of Hollywood’s most anticipated releases in years, James Cameron’s Avatar. With concern about being the “most expensive movie in feature film history” and its likening to the wars overseas (essentially a movie-inspired take on the conquest of big oil over the small but feisty, native inhabitants of “Pandora”), there is a lot for Avatar and James Cameron to overcome even before its official release. Like most things however, one can find many potential answers from a review of the previous history of just about anything. Whether it’s the potential of a person to pay back money they might receive or the value to be reaped from a multi-million dollar blockbuster, answers can be found in what’s come before.
We’ll take a look at the movie history of director James Cameron to showcase how they succeeded,
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Excel Home Videos brings James Cameron.s films on DVD
12 December 2009 11:29 PM, PST
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With James Cameron’s movie Avatar releasing next week, Excel Home Videos brings some of his earlier films on home video. Some of Cameron’s films that will release on DVD are: Terminator, The Abyss, Aliens and Titanic. The DVD’s come with an offer of fifty rupee discount on an Avatar movie ticket, in any theatre in India. Cameron's forthcoming film Avatar is a science fiction epic and is also the first big budget action film to be shot in 3D, using revolutionary camera technology. The film is slated to release worldwide on
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James Cameron's "Avatar"
11 December 2009 2:55 PM, PST
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I don’t know why it should come as a surprise to anyone that writer/director James Cameron should continue to own, or, as the kids today say, Pwn, the science-fiction/fantasy genre in cinema. After all, he single-handedly rejuvenated said genre with pretty much zero money and plenty of imagination and filmic ingenuity with 1984’s The Terminator; made the Ultimate Sci-Fi Smash-Bang War Movie, Non Ironic Division, with 1986’s utterly awesome Aliens (the prize in Ironic Division goes to Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers, which Aliens made possible anyway), screwed around with the Terminator character in ways that ought to have been utterly unconscionable, and probably were, and made a colossal entertainment out of the misbegotten enterprise Terminator 2 (1991) anyway, and then…stopped doing science-fiction/fantasy films, unfortunately. Yes, the Bond meets Austrian-Dubbed Father Knows Best hybrid True Lies (1994) did contain some spectacularly far-fetched set pieces that could have come out
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Avatar: The Final Sales Assault Begins
7 December 2009 1:19 AM, PST
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On December 18th, movies will never be the same...
This is what 20th Century Fox would like you to believe about the released of James Cameron's Avatar. That the director of Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss and Titanic -- one of the most prolific directors in history, has delivered a "game changer" in this gigantic, CG-filled action adventure fantasy story.
On Thursday December 10, Fox will screen the film for critics across the country (and the world), collecting quotes and blurbs for further marketing (as if they need any more). It is likely that these embargoed members of the press -- including yours truly -- will all be clamoring to see who breaks first. Who will be the first to Tweet, run their review or somehow display their opinion against the will of the studio. At that point, the flood-gates will likely open, spilling analysis all over the web like the floods of a Roland Emmerich opus. But
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Birthday Suits: Giant Sized Edition
17 November 2009 11:05 AM, PST
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11/17 ~ Todays special boys and girls. Are you one of them?
Mischa, Marty and Rachel
1897 Frank Fay, aka Mr. Barbara Stanwyck. The theory goes that their troubled marriage was the basis of A Star is Born. That story is so big it's practically it's own franchise. I can't stop thinking about it today: Stanwyck through the lens of Gaynor, Garland, Streisand. Yummy!) Even if it's only an urban La legend, I love to think about it. Fay, a popular comedic actor, was also the originator of the Harvey role (on stage) before Jimmy Stewart got to it.
1901 Lee Strasberg, the hugely influential acting teacher that helped popularize "The Method" Students included... well, basically a whose who of late 40s / early 50s giants of the silver screen.
1905 Mischa Auer, very tall actor of oversized comic turns. You'll remember him from the blissfully funny My Man Godfrey and best picture winner You Can't Take It With You
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Cameron Receiving Ves Lifetime Achievement Award
15 November 2009 8:05 AM, PST
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The Visual Effects Society announced at the end of this week that just a few days before the Academy Awards, it will present James Cameron the Ves Lifetime Achievement Award. That's pretty much imposible to argue against, don't you think?
Animation World Network has the entire press release, if you're interested, but here's what you need to know: The Ves Board of Directors picks an artist whose career has made a major impact on the art and science of the visual effects arena. Cameron, more than most directors - even those who do a lot of work in science fiction - has always been ahead of the curve. Think about the first two Terminator flicks and The Abyss, plus Titanic, which at the time was a pretty astounding feat.
There's little question, even if Avatar isn't a great film, that the effects and the 3-D won't shake up everything in a pretty big way.
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- Colin Boyd
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