Terminator creators will collide — OK, collaborate — on the upcoming Avatar 2.
According to TheWrap, Avatar and Terminator director James Cameron has hired Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles showrunner Josh Friedman to script Avatar 2 for him. None of the parties involved, including distributor 20th Century Fox, would comment on the report for TheWrap.
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Avatar producer Jon Landau was the keynote speaker at Sunday’s NAB Technology Summit on Cinema in Las Vegas, during which time he revealed some of the filming plans in store for Avatar 2 and Avatar 3.
“We have kept a team of digital artists on from Avatar in order to test how we can create performance capture underwater,” said Landau, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “We could simulate water
but we can’t simulate the actor’s experience so we are going to capture performance in a tank.”
Avatar director James Cameron, an avid diver and underwater documentarian, has long hinted that the sequels will take viewers beneath the oceans of Pandora. Said Landau, “We want to take advantage of the technology that people are putting out there to make the next two movies more engaging and visually tantalizing, and wrap up the story arc of our two main characters.”
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By Scott Mendelson, Contributor
Just a few years ago, had I written a piece entitled “There are no films guaranteed to gross $1 billion this year”, you likely would have laughed and said “Of course not!”. As recently as 2010, the idea that any movie could or would gross $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales was somewhat of a pipe dream. From 1997 to 2006, there were just two films to reach that milestone, they being Titanic (the biggest movie of all-time with a seemingly insurmountable $1.8 billion) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the Oscar-winning chapter to what can be argued is the finest screen trilogy of our time (that’s a debate for another day). In 2006, we saw the powerhouse success of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest which parlayed the unexpected popularity of the first film into an even larger haul for its sequel, breaking the domestic opening weekend record at the time ($135 million) and earning a massive $423 million in America and $642 million overseas. In 2008, The Dark Knight pulled another “massively popular sequel to unexpectedly well-liked original” trick to the tune of $533 million in America (good for the second biggest grosser of all time in America, if only for a year) and just over $1 billion worldwide despite not playing in China due to that pesky “Chinese gangster hides Gotham mob money” subplot. 2009 saw James Cameron do that trick that James Cameron does yet again, with Avatar earning $1 billion worldwide in about seventeen days and going on to earn an eye-popping $2.7 billion. …read more
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By Tim Beyers, The Motley Fool
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Only two films in history have ever grossed more than $2 billion at the worldwide box office, with director James Cameron responsible for both: Avatar and Titanic.
He may have company come 2015, when J.J. Abrams unleashes the next episode in the Star Wars saga to a hungry audience. To be fair, it’s easy to speculate this early in the game. Yet all signs suggest that Walt Disney will put muscle and talent behind the franchise, which it spent $4 billion to acquire.
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By Matt Cantor 
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The 3D technology company RealD this morning announced that the film director James Cameron has resigned from the company’s board “due to the rigorous demands of his filmmaking commitments.” …read more
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Recently, Bryan Singer shared a few more nuggets of info on the ever abuzz X-Men: Days of Future Past. To start, the director assured his fans that no stone was left unturned when it came to the highly anticipated time-travel crossover element.
“We’ve cracked it in a way that it makes sense,” Singer explained to Empire. “I had a two-hour conversation with James Cameron about time travel, string theory, multiverses and all that. You have to create your rules and stick wtih them. That’s why Terminator and Back To The Future work so well. And there are certain mechanisms in X-Men, certain powers, perceptions and characters, that make this possible.”
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By David M. Ewalt, Forbes Staff Consulting firm Starlight Runner helps movie directors like James Cameron–and big brands from Coca-Cola to Mattel to Pepperidge Farm–keep their stories straight.
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Angelina Jolie’s planned big-screen version of the book Cleopatra: A Life has spit out a bunch of would-be directors, including James Cameron, Paul Greengrass and David Fincher. But now Life of Pi director Ang Lee says it’s his turn to take a shot at the age-old story.
The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Lee about Cleopatra, and he said he’s gearing up to the read the script and that it “just feels right to me after all the other types of films I’ve done. What does it have in common with any of them? They’re all totally different! That’s what makes this perfect.”
Uh, why not?
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Following the wild success of Avatar, James Cameron has been fighting a handful of lawsuits from several people who believe that they have some stake in the film’s $2.78 billion gross. However, earlier this month, Cameron released a 45-page sworn declaration that details how he came up with the ideas behind the film.
Additionally — and perhaps more importantly for us — the document hints at what’s in store for Cameron’s upcoming Avatar sequels. The Hollywood Reporter cites several examples from Cameron’s declaration, but this is the bit that strikes us:
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There hasn’t been much in the way of official updates about Walt Disney World’s planned Avatar land since it was first announced back in September 2011 as coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom. But today, at Disney’s “Around the World” event, at which several of their theme park and other travel projects were discussed, Avatar was touched upon, albeit briefly.
Said Bruce Vaughn, Chief Creative Executive of Disney Imagineering, “Obviously, I think you all have heard that we are working with James Cameron and his group at Lightstorm, as well as Fox Film and Entertainment, to bring the world and characters of Avatar to life. And we’re going to do this in a grand style. The world of Pandora and the other worlds that Cameron is currently inventing for the next movie are very rich, magical places. The Na’vi are an incredible group of characters. Let me tell you, these are going to be very challenging but very exciting for us to bring to life.”
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On February 19th, you’ll be able to get your cybernetic hands on a remastered version of James Cameron‘s iconic sci-fi movie The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, on Blu-ray.
Terminator, The Remastered Blu-ray will contain:
Special Features:
Remastered Theatrical Feature Blu-ray
7 Deleted Scenes
Creating The Terminator: Visual Effects & Music
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