There are a lot of huge James Cameron fans out there (including us), and something tells me that when “Avatar” hits theaters December 18th, there’ll be even more of them. Which makes us even more excited over some exclusive news we have to report, on a very-cool opportunity to help a good cause – and maybe even get yourself sitting next to the “Titanic” filmmaker in his own private screening room.
An auction recently went live benefiting Muse Elementary – a non-profit school in Malibu founded by Cameron’s wife Suzy Amis four years ago to help educate children on issues of global awareness. Among the drool-inducing items that will be won by lucky Cameron fans: Read more...
On December 18, James Cameron unleashes "Avatar" on the world. The 3-D sci-fi epic has been an in-the-making project for more than a decade, with Cameron's first script treatment written in 1994. He's been out of the director's chair -- for features anyway -- since "Titanic," released in 1997, so the release of "Avatar" is a fairly enormous happening within the culture of mass media entertainment.
Today, Atlantic Records issued the first details about the score. There are 13 tracks from composer James Horner comprising the pure score. The final track, titled "I See You (Theme From 'Avatar')," features vocals from Grammy-nominated singer Leona Lewis. The score drops on December 15, three days shy of the movie. Read more...
We've teased the new "Avatar" trailer for you. We've given it to you in Freeze Frame. And now here it is again in Stop Motion, 40 images, frozen in time and captioned for your reading enjoyment. The first pic is below. Click it to be whisked off to the shiny, new image gallery.
Yesterday we gave you a tease, only the smallest taste, of the just-released three and a half minute trailer for James Cameron's "Avatar." Well MTV's resident mad scientists -- ie our digital producers -- have been working hard with the full trailer to twist it into an all-new episode of Freeze Frame for your viewing pleasure.
Want to know who the stars are, how long its been since Cameron made a proper movie and other fun, informative tidbits? Take them and the shiny new trailer in simultaneously in the "Avatar" Freeze Frame trailer, embedded below.
Oh "Avatar." Finally, you look awesome. Those who weren't so impressed by the last trailer should avoid writing the movie off just yet. The teaser clip below delivers a taste of what's to come when the three and a half minute trailer makes its television premiere on November 1. Check it out.
The full trailer is actually already online at Yahoo!. The November 1 premiere is notable because it's being billed as "the largest live motion picture trailer viewing in history." Apparently because it's going to screen shortly before kickoff at the Cowboys-Seahawks game, where the world's largest video display can be found. If you can't make the game, don't worry. You'll also be able to catch the trailer during the pre-game airing of Fox NFL Sunday.
Ah hell... you want to see the FULL trailer? All three minutes and thirty seconds of it? I'll be you do. Hit the jump. It's right there. Read more...
James Cameron is a journalist's dream. The director actually says what's on his mind—and says it with foul-mouthed panache—rather than delivering the juiceless soundbites we're used to hearing from most folks in the entertainment biz. But the "Avatar" director can afford to be open, I suppose. He's free to speak his mind, seeing as how he's behind the biggest selling movie of all time ("Titanic") and a handful of other barrier-busting popcorn flicks ("The Abyss," "Terminator 2," etc.).
This week's New Yorker features an absurdly long, glowing and straight-up amazing profile of the director. The angle is of the "mad genius" variety, and after perusing its pages, I can't say I disagree with the author's assessment. Dana Goodyear's piece brims with so many remarkable quotes from Cameron and those that have worked with him that we had to gather them all together for you. Read more...
Yesterday, the discovery of 32 planets outside of Earth's solar system was announced by an international team of scientists. The existence of these planets — dubbed "exoplanets," short for "planets outside of our solar system" — should only further the line of thinking that we are not alone in this universe, even if our other neighbors are uninhabited planets in galaxies far, far away.
But what if they're not uninhabited? Indeed, what if these planets aren't even unfamiliar? The Movies Blog team happens to have a well-connected source close to the discovery of the exoplanets, and we can exclusively confirm that at least five of these brave new worlds have been featured in past, present and future works of fiction!
Okay, that's a lie. But let's put our "make believe" hats on for a moment and imagine that these five fictional planets were counted amongst the newly discovered exoplanets... Read more...
It's a given that if James Cameron's "Avatar" is as big as expected then 20th Century Fox will want a sequel. Even though we won't know for a few more months if the highly anticipated 3-D sci-fi blockbuster is the hoped-for success, producer Jon Landau is already talking about the possibility of a follow-up.
Landau, who also worked with Cameron on "Titanic," told French magazine Le Film (brought to our attention and initially translated by /Film) that the world of "Avatar" is big enough that it should be explored further in subsequent films. He says "Avatar" only deals with the surface of the planet Pandora, and that a sequel could venture deeper into the interior. Read more...
Even if James Cameron's "Avatar" somehow doesn't hit big with audiences this December, the filmmaker may soon have a couple more 3-D movies in theaters. Proven successes no less. Cameron's production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, believes it will be ready to announce a 3-D re-release for "Titanic" within the next six months, and they have been doing tests on "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" for a similar reissue, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Imagine: Leonardo DiCaprio saying "I'm the king of the world" while seemingly sitting on your lap. Okay, so the first section of "Titanic" doesn't seem to lend themselves to 3-D in an exciting way, but you know it'll look cool when the boat starts going down. Scary too. Bodies that originally fell towards the camera on their way into the icy water will now likely be headed into the audience thanks to the added dimension. Read more...
Not everyone is digging the look of the Na'vi in "Avatar," and frankly, neither was I -- until a picture of Sigourney Weaver as a Na'vi popped up online, that is. In an upcoming issue of Empire, the "Aliens" heroine -- who plays a scientist in the James Cameron-directed film -- is revealed in all of her blue-skinned, yellow-eyed glory... and holy heck if she doesn't look exactly like an aliened-up Ellen Ripley!
The transformation of Weaver got me wondering about other Cameron-directed characters who'd benefit from the "Avatar" treatment -- and it got our crack team of designers wondering, too! The result is our very own visual interpretation of five classic Cameron characters as Na'vi warriors! Read more...
