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Monsters Vs. Aliens: James Cameron's Love/Hate Relationship with Technology
29 December 2009 8:52 AM, PST
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[Major spoilers ahead for "Avatar" and other James Cameron films.]
Like all of James Cameron's six previous films, "Avatar" is a war of worlds both literal and figurative. Colonists from the planet Earth do battle with the native inhabitants of a moon named Pandora over the right to mine a rare and powerful mineral. Cameron casts the struggle as a conflict between the technological world (the humans and their advanced military) and the natural world (the natives, known as the Na'vi, who share a symbiotic relationship with their environment). Given that the humans are characterized as greedy and violent while the Na'vi are portrayed as caring and spiritual, it isn't particularly surprising that the movie ultimately treats the Na'vi as the heroes and the humans as villains. But it's a little curious when you consider that this condemnation of industrialization appears in a film made using some of the most cutting-edge moviemaking technology ever devised by man.
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Sr Pick [Video]: Avatar Wars: Humans vs. CGI Characters
23 December 2009 3:34 PM, PST
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Said The Joker to James Cameron: “You’ve changed things… Forever. There’s no going back.” Certainly this is true for Avatar, Cameron’s fantasy/adventure epic, which is currently wowing movie audiences all over the world.
The technology Cameron invented to make Avatar a reality has advanced the quality and believability of CGI characters leaps and bounds past the limitations we knew before – but how are flesh-and-blood actors reacting to the new era of CGI?
Well, now we know the answer to that question, thanks to “Avatar Wars” a mashup video created by the guys over at Black 20 Studios.
In this hilarious mock trailer (which you’ll bear witness to in a second), the actors who play the human inhabitants of planet Pandora are facing facts: they are being out-shined by their blue CGI costars, the Na’vi, while human actors in general are being overshadowed by a
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- Kofi Outlaw
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Weekly Poll Results: Best James Cameron Movie
23 December 2009 9:44 AM, PST
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Last week we asked you what the best James Cameron movie is, and you guys responded with plenty of votes... the majority of them going to Terminator 2: Judgment Day! I think we all knew it was going to be a race between T2 and Aliens, but T2 won by a pretty large margin. Aliens was a distant second with 27% of the votes, followed by The Terminator and The Abyss. Surprisingly, Piranha 2 actually got more votes than True Lies, and unfortunately, not a single vote was cast for either of James Cameron's undersea documentaries. Come on, don't we have any lovers of sunken ships and strange fish out there? What do you think, should Avatar be higher on this list?
1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- 37.9%
2. Aliens -- 27.8%
3. The Terminator -- 8.1%
4. The Abyss -- 5.8%
5. Titanic -- 5.6%
5. Avatar -- 5.6%
7. Piranha 2 -- 3.7%
8. True Lies -- 3.5%
10. Ghosts of the Abyss -- 0%
10. Aliens of the Deep
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Alfred Dunhill BAFTA A Life in Pictures – Cameron Talks Avatar, Twelve Year Hiatus
22 December 2009 7:57 PM, PST
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HeyUGuys were recently invited to attend the Alfred Dunhill BAFTA A Life in Pictures event, at which James Cameron was interviewed about his life and career. One of the subjects that he spoke about was Avatar.
“Back in 95 I wrote Avatar partially because something I’d always wanted to do was a real geek project.”
Despite Cameron’s enthusiasm for his idea, two obstacles stood in his way. The first was the small matter of Titanic, a project which had been gestating since before True Lies. The second was the technical challenge of creating a believable world, in an era when ‘mo-cap’ was Andy’s sister in-law*.
“After Titanic my company was supposed to have all the answers about how to make this movie – I’d given them two years after all.” Cameron recalls, “I came back, and they still said ‘It won’t happen without a ridiculous amount of
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Tom Cruise Returns to Action in 'Knight and Day' Trailer
22 December 2009 12:02 PM, PST
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For those of you disappointed that Tom Cruise bailed on the upcoming action film Salt (Angelina Jolie took his place), we've got the trailer for the equally ridiculous-looking spy thriller Knight & Day (formerly Wichita), courtesy of E! Online. The movie reunites Cruise with his Vanilla Sky costar Cameron Diaz in a plot about a lovelorn woman romanced by a secret agent. And against her wishes, she ends up involved in his latest mission. On paper it sounds like 27 Dresses meets Mission: Impossible (with a little Bourne Identity mixed in), and unfortunately there's not much shown in this spot to make it look any better than that.
Given that it's directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line; 3:10 to Yuma) and features the always appealing Peter Sarsgaard, I'm trying to overlook the sitcom-friendly title, contrived premise and, most of all, Cruise's smiley performance, which seems to combine Ethan Hunt with Jerry Maguire.
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Cameron Alter Ego Feeds Twitter
21 December 2009 3:09 PM, PST
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Just who is @JFCameron, as in “James Fucking Cameron,” on Twitter? The tweeter started channeling the mighty director on August 22 with the following: Name: James F-ing Cameron Location: Pandora Bio: The director of True Lies, Titanic and the greatest film of all-time James Cameron’s Avatar Not sure why Twitter won’t allow me to register under my full legal name - James Fucking Cameron. My middle name is actually “Fucking.” No joke. That name change is the first thing I did with my monies from Titanic. Without actually believing that the fake Cameron was the real deal, a lot of us (1268 followers and counting) played …
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Interviews: ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Wayne’s World,’ ‘Growing Pains,’ ‘Three’s Company’ at Hollywood Celebrities Show
21 December 2009 5:23 AM, PST
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Chicago – At the recent Hollywood Celebrities Show in Rosemont, Illinois, Jonathan Frakes of “Star Trek,” Tia Carrere of “Wayne’s World,” Julie McCullough of “Growing Pains” and Jenilee Harrison of “Three’s Company” were attendees.
HollywoodChicago.com was there and scored interviews with all of these popular TV and film stars, as well as putting them through the lens of Starstuck Foto’s Joe Arce.
Throughout this holiday week, we will be posting the interviews and pictures from the October 17th Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show, starting with today’s overview of these candid celebs.
Jonathan Frakes, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”
Jonathan Frakes starred as the intrepid Commander William T. Riker in the first TV spin-off of the Star Trek universe from 1987-1994. He also directed a couple of the film versions, “Star Trek: First Contact” and “Star Trek: Insurrection.”
Number One: Jonathan Frakes at the Hollywood Celebrities Show, October 17th,
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JoBlo Podcast #48
21 December 2009 12:04 AM, PST
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Avatar Reviewed!
Moreno and I finally got to see Avatar and dig deep into it's soul to try and understand why it's so awesome. Or is it? Moreno thinks ten foot blues bitches are hot and I think it's better than True Lies. What it all means, I have no idea. Come listen to us rank all James Cameron's films in order. Annnnnd....
- We also remember the life and career of Brittany Murphy. What films stand out and why her death is so surprising when it comes to your average celebrity death.
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Cameron Alter Ego Feeds Twitter
20 December 2009 3:09 PM, PST
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Just who is @JFCameron, as in “James Fucking Cameron,” on Twitter? The tweeter started channeling the mighty director on August 22 with the following: Name: James F-ing Cameron Location: Pandora Bio: The director of True Lies, Titanic and the greatest film of all-time James Cameron’s Avatar Not sure why Twitter won’t allow me to register under my full legal name - James Fucking Cameron. My middle name is actually “Fucking.” No joke. That name change is the first thing I did with my monies from Titanic. Without actually believing that the fake Cameron was the real deal, a lot of us (1268 followers and counting) played …
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Avatar | Film review
19 December 2009 4:07 PM, PST
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At $500m, James Cameron's Avatar is the most expensive movie ever. Yet for all its brilliant imagery, is it any more than a smug sermon?
Before I read that James Cameron was born 55 years ago in Kapuskasing, Ontario, the only thing I knew about the town was that when, during their 1951 tour of Canada, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip stopped there for an hour, they were greeted by a banner headline in the local paper reading "Kapuskasing by no mere fluke, welcomes the Princess and the Duke".
He got his first film job in 1980 as art director on Roger Corman's low-budget Sf film Battle Beyond the Stars, a transposition to outer space of The Magnificent Seven. It was scripted by John Sayles, who was to remain an independent film-maker of personal, modestly financed movies, while Cameron was soon to make exponentially expensive blockbusters.
His seventh feature, Titanic, is
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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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Exclusive Interview: Joel David Moore (Avatar)
18 December 2009 11:36 PM, PST
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The day fifteen years in the making has finally come for director James Cameron who has spent a great portion of his working Hollywood life on Avatar. Nationwide the highly anticipated film Avatar (2009) debuts and fans are already lining up around the corner to take part in cinematic history. Many critics are stating that Avatar is the film that will make us change the way we watch movies forever. PopStar spoke with Joel David Moore who plays opposite Sigourney Weaver as a human anthropologist who travels millions of light years away to Pandora to help study the native inhabits. After being kept silent for four years, Moore was eager to share this project with fans and talked about how he got singed to the project, the joys of working with the legendary James Cameron and the complex technology behind the motion capture. We have heard that director James Cameron has
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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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Opening Night - Sam Worthington Admits Avatar Makes Him Giggle
18 December 2009 7:25 AM, PST
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James Cameron's long-awaited 3D scifi fantasy flick Avatar had its world premiere Wednesday night in Hollywood and, as you may have seen from our live-tweets, AMC News was there. This is a movie that Cameron, of Aliens, Terminator, True Lies and Titanic fame, first brought to producing partner Jon Landau in 1995, but shelved until 2005 as they waited for technology to catch up. What does the new 3D technology add to the movie? How important was it to get the story right despite all of the epic visuals? I asked Cameron, Landau, and stars Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana in my Opening Night report.
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The Olympic Torch, The 'Dollhouse' Wrap Party And 'Avatar' Reactions In Today's Twitter-Wood
17 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST
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Jason Reitman wasn't bluffing yesterday when he said he would be carrying the Olympic Torch through Toronto, and he's got a picture up to prove it today. Selecting the Twitter Pic of the Day wasn't easy this afternoon, considering Reitman's post was accompanied by Eliza Dushku's shot of the "Dollhouse" wrap party, a view of "New Moon" actress Christian Serratos' latest photo shoot and a 2003 photo from Roger Ebert that appears to show Bob Dylan with blond hair.
Click on down, and you'll find all of those posts, as well as a few reactions to James Cameron's "Avatar," what Liv Tyler did inside Rainn Wilson's car and the celebratory gift Eli Roth plans on sending his fellow "Inglourious Basterds" actors in honor of their SAG Award nomination. It's all retweeted in the Twitter-Wood report for December 17, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@ebertchicago http://twitpic.com/twhqp
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- Brian Warmoth
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Avatar Movie Review
16 December 2009 8:00 PM, PST
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I firmly believe that one cannot judge a movie on first viewing. I like to review a movie after watching it a second time, after a week of my first viewing, preferably a month later. So may be I should not write this review an hour after seeing Avatar. A second viewing shows me things that I might have missed the first time. I like to form my opinion after several days, but but But... the initial opinion never changes.
I can watch a movie any number of times, but the first impression is, my dear movie aficionados, Always the best impression. So here it is, the first impression. You know the feeling when watching a really great movie, that awesome realisation that you are watching a masterpiece, the fuzzy feeling in your heart that you will be waching this movie again and again with your kids and grandkids?
Well,
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Avatar: The 'Deal of the Century'?
16 December 2009 6:45 AM, PST
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After 15 years and a few hundred million dollars of tinkering and experimentation, James Cameron is sick of hearing about what it cost to finally get his visionary Avatar in front of moviegoers. "I don't think it means jack sh*t," Cameron told THR, blowing off production estimates that now reach $300 million. "To be perfectly honest, I think the studio has generated the myth about its costs to help in the selling of the movie. I have seen this happen with Terminator and True Lies and Titanic, and it helps the film become a must-see film. By the way, doesn't that mean it's a bargain to see such an expensive film for the same amount it costs to see any other film? It's the deal of the century!" Sort of? Does this mean we can adjust for inflation and sneak into Paranormal Activity for free? [THR]
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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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James Cameron’s Next is 3D ‘Fantastic Voyage’
11 December 2009 7:16 PM, PST
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A Tweet by Production Weekly on Tuesday started a mess of headlines and speculation about James Cameron’s next project. The update simply read, “James Cameron is developing a Shane Salerno-scripted sci-fi action script for Fox, described as an ‘event’ film set in the future.” That 140-character limit can be a pain, huh?
A few outlets did some digging and Shane Salerno’s last announced script was Doomsday Protocol, “an science fiction adventure” about a team of humans and aliens formed to save Earth. Not exactly a stretch for him, so that guess was a good for a while.
Cameron wasn’t much help. When asked in interviews leading up to the release of Avatar, the Titanic director has answered a variation of the same metaphor, “You don’t ask a woman if she wants to have more kids when she’s crowning.” Thanks for the mental picture, Jim.
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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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