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James Cameron Talks Terminator, Avatar Sequels

James Cameron Talks Terminator, Avatar Sequels

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James Cameron has made some boastful comments of late as to plans for two movie brands he helped shape into being: Terminator and Avatar. Apparently he wants to make four or five sequels set in the land of the blue giants, aka Pandora…but realistically, can he promise that many this far away from making just one? No, he can’t, not really — and he’s aware of that. “Let’s face it, if Avatar 2 and 3 don’t make enough money, there’s not going to be a 4 and a 5,” he told Vanity Fair. It’s the first interview in months where he’s swallowed his pride and admitted he doesn’t control the entire Hollywood machine. He also says the new Terminator movie he’s working on is the first chapter in an intended trilogy, but that too is dependent on the box office. “It’s the first of three, the story is mapped out over a three-film arc, but again, if we don’t make any money there isn’t gonna be a two and a

Disney’s Hollywood Studios: 3rd Party’s Over

Disney’s Hollywood Studios: 3rd Party’s Over

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D23, the Disney celebration held every two years, had scores of announcements, many of which have been covered here. One thing that I noticed hasn’t gotten much coverage, though, is that The Great Movie Ride, one of the very last attractions left from 1989, back when the park opened as Disney-MGM Studios, will be closing down soon. It’ll be replaced by a ride themed to Disney Channel’s current Mickey Mouse cartoons (I mean Paul Rudish’s cartoons, not Mickey And The Roadster Racers). Disney’s current deal with Turner Classic Movies to sponsor The Great Movie Ride will be ending in August. This is a few months after the last TCM Cruise was held on Disney’s Cruise Line, and it makes me wonder what will happen to the programming block Treasures From The Disney Vault, which currently airs every three months on TCM. These changes got me to thinking about how, slowly but gradually, Disney’s Hollywood Studios has been leaving behind 3rd party properties in favor of Disney’s own IP, and I

James Cameron Isn’t Worried About Avatar Films

James Cameron Isn’t Worried About Avatar Films

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When Avatar (the James Cameron film) it set the world on fire with its gorgeous visuals and all-new world. It set records that last to this day, and so when a sequel was announced, it was kind of obvious. Yet, it’s been a long time, and the sequel hasn’t come out. We have gotten an amusement park from it though, and during its opening, James Cameron spoke with IGN and revealed that that he isn’t worried about the delay one bit: “I don’t worry about it. I mean, my sequel for Terminator, Terminator 2, came out seven years later. My sequel for Aliens, from Ridley Scott’s film Alien, came out seven years later. We’re now a little bit behind that timeline at seven and a half years to start production, to start shooting, but that was because we decided to do the four [sequels] as one big project. And getting four scripts right, as you can imagine, it is four times as hard as getting one script right. And this is

Ubisoft To Create Avatar Spinoff Game

Ubisoft To Create Avatar Spinoff Game

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Ubisoft has announced a partnership with Lightstorm Entertainment and Fox Interactive to create a cutting-edge new game for consoles and PC set on Pandora, the dangerous moon from James Cameron’s Avatar film franchise. Massive Entertainment is leading the game’s development. Massive is behind the creation of Tom Clancy’s The Division, which last spring broke multiple records in the games industry, including the record for the industry’s best-selling new game franchise in an opening week. They are now working on a new AAA-project based on Avatar, the highest-grossing film of all time. Four sequels to Avatar are currently in development, and Lightstorm, Fox Interactive and Massive are working together to create a game that, along with the films, will continue to expand and deepen in the Avatar universe in exciting and innovative ways. David Polfeldt, Managing Director at Massive Entertainment, spoke about the as yet untitled project, saying: “James Cameron and Lightstorm Entertainment changed the way we think about immersive storytelling with the first Avatar. The ambition that they have for the

Avatar: Discover Pandora Exhibit Launches in December

Avatar: Discover Pandora Exhibit Launches in December

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A new live exhibition for James Cameron’s Avatar film, Avatar: Discover Pandora, has been announced. This special, interactive attraction is going to make its debut later this December 7, and it all starts in Taipei, Taiwan. This interactive exhibition is said to be part of a global, worldwide tour created by Beast Kingdom, GES, Lightstorm Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Consumer Products. The exhibition is a 12,000 square-foot entertainment and educational experience. It will allow visitors to explore the scientific and wondrous discoveries on the world of Pandora. It will present Pandora as a real place, and visitors will be able to interact with the exhibition through a series of exciting and engaging immersive environments designed to highlight the diverse flora and fauna, exotic wildlife of Pandora, along with its culture and mythology of its indigenous people, the Na’vi. The exhibition is planed to tour in additional global markets after its premiere stop in Taiwan. Speaking on the exhibit, Lightstorm’s Kathy Franklin stated: “Our fans around the world often tell us that

Avatar Sequels Will Be About Family

Avatar Sequels Will Be About Family

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The original Avatar was a visual spectacle, and one that amazed fans all over the world to the point of it becoming one of the highest grossing movies of all time. Now, James Cameron is working hard on a trio of sequel films for the original. Avatar’s story was a simplistic one of main character Jake Sully going to a new world and discovering the true meaning of life and love. According to James Cameron in a chat with Variety, the sequels will be more about family. “It’s more of a family saga about the struggle with the humans. The sequels will follow Jake and Naytiri and their children. With the first film being set to arrive in 2018. This has been moved back a bit, but Cameron is confident in the new date. “We haven’t moved that target yet, but we will if we need to,” he said. “The important thing for me is not when the first one comes out but the cadence of the release pattern. I

Star Wars Shatters Avatar’s Record

Star Wars Shatters Avatar’s Record

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For the last six years, James Cameron’s Avatar has reigned atop the box office heap. However, that all changed with the release of the new Star Wars sequel, The Force Awakens. Avatar’s domestic box office record of $760.5 million has finally been broken by Star Wars: The Force Awakens, making it the highest grossing domestic film in history. The film has shattered Avatar’s domestic record in only 20 days of release. On top of the film’s box office accolades, it also also crossed the $800 million mark overseas, to bring the film’s global total to $1,557,300 since its global debut on December 16. Of course, there are a couple caveats. First, Star Wars’ new domestic record is without taking inflation into account. Second, Avatar remains the top dog in global box office receipts. Avatar’s worldwide take is $2.87 billion, thanks to an overseas gross of over $2 billion. With that in mind, Avatar’s worldwide take is something Star Wars: The Force Awakens might not actually be able to beat. While

James Cameron Admits “He Has To Deliver” With Avatar 2

James Cameron Admits “He Has To Deliver” With Avatar 2

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Avatar, the movie by James Cameron, is the highest grossing movie of all time. Not the least reason why was that people were stunned and amazed by the beautiful world of Pandora. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Cameron admits that there is no less pressure when making Avatar 2: “No. Because you have to challenge yourself. Obviously, expectations are going to be very high on these films, especially on Avatar 2, to make sure it wasn’t just some big fluke the first time. So we’ve got to deliver. I’ve created a nice rod for my own back, so they say.” The Avatar franchise is set to get a trio of films, that Cameron is working on right now, and Cameron relates that the movies are well underway both in script and in design. “I’m in the process of doing another pass through all three scripts right now,” Cameron told EW during a recent phone interview. “Just refining. That’s in parallel with the design process. The design process is very

Remembering Composer James Horner

Remembering Composer James Horner

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On Monday, June 22nd, the world of film music suffered a devastating loss when James Horner, winner of two Oscars for his musical contributions to Titanic, died in a plane crash. Mr. Horner’s death sent shockwaves through the film community. He scored three movies awaiting release and was on-board to do the scores for the Avatar sequels. I’ve been a fan of Mr. Horner’s work for years now, and so I would like to take a look back at some of the scores he wrote that either had an impact on me or I just enjoyed for what they were…Wonderful music. I first heard Mr. Horner’s music in the 1995 movie Casper. About a month-and-a-half before the movie’s release, I lost my father to a heart attack. I was only 12 years old. Just a few days before he died, we had returned from a trip to Florida, and it seemed like things were going to continue getting better. Losing my father at such a young age devastated me. When a

Official Korrasami Art To Debut At Gallery

Official Korrasami Art To Debut At Gallery

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As the Nickelodeon series The Legend of Korra ran though its four seasons first on Nickelodeon and then on Nicktoons and its website, the fanbase became particularly attached to the possibility of Korra and her heiress friend Asami falling in love, though no cartoon on a kids’ network had ever been allowed to depict lesbians (“Clarence” beat them to the punch a few months earlier on the male side). Then, in the last two minutes of the series, to everyone’s surprise, it really happened. Korra and Asami joined arms, entered the Spirit World portal, gazed into each other’s eyes and — pan up, Chinese lettering, cut to black, credits. The creators had to confirm Korra and Asami’s bisexuality later, because it was as far as Nickelodeon would let them go. In the months since that ending, fans have been starved to see something, ANYTHING depicting their budding romance in a little more detail, and fanart has been created by the bucketload to fill that hole (though, lately, the shipping nuts

A Quick Guide to Great Characters

A Quick Guide to Great Characters

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Aaron Ehasz wrote up this process of what you should strive for when creating great characters and what’s only gravy. It certainly covers characters like Tony Soprano and Walter White, as well as characters he’s written like Prince Zuko, Toph, Azula, etc. Your character doesn’t have to be likable. Right now, “Breaking Bad” is the most popular and acclaimed TV series on the planet, and Walter White is not only unlikable, he’s pretty despicable. But he’s also dimensional, fascinating, compelling, and believable. Those are the ingredients every great character has mixed into the creative soup that spawns them.

Legend Of Korra Book 3 Premiere Next Week

Legend Of Korra Book 3 Premiere Next Week

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Fans who’ve been waiting for a new season of Nickelodeon’s The Legend of Korra are soon to have their patience rewarded as the new season will be released next week! The Legend of Korra Book Three: Change will debut on Friday, June 27th at 7 p.m. on Nickelodeon. The premiere will three episodes on the same evening titled, “A Breath of Fresh Air,” “Rebirth of a Nation,” and “Meet the Family.” The new season will take place several weeks after the end of Book Two: Spirits, and according to an earlier interview with Jeremy Zuckerman, the sound and music designer of the series, the new season will have a tone matching closely to the original Avatar: The Last Airbender series. News, first reported by IGN, verified that the new season will go into a break on July 4th after the three episode season premier. Official descriptions of the season’s first  episodes have been released (note they will carry some rather major late arrival spoilers): “A Breath of Fresh Air”: After the events of Harmonic Convergence, Avatar

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