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James Cameron’s The Abyss Remastered In 4K

James Cameron’s The Abyss Remastered In 4K

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KEEP PANTYHOSE ON YOU’RE GONNA LOVE THIS After director James Cameron made a name for himself with Terminator and Aliens, he was given the rare position in Hollywood of being allowed to do whatever he wanted, spending whatever budget he thought was necessary. That would eventually lead to Titanic and Avatar, but the seeds for both were planted in The Abyss, Cameron’s 1989 flick about deep sea diving that at the time was one of the most ambitious films made. The set was made from a deconstructed nuclear plant tower filled with a gazillion gallons of water. While most movies under the sea were shot with trickery and shortcuts, Cameron had to have the real deal. The end result was dozens of stories about nearly everyone in the film almost drowning to death at some point, including Cameron himself. Fortunately it worked out to be a triumph, not a tragedy. 20th Century Studios has announced a theatrical re-release for The Abyss, sporting a spiffy new 4K transfer. This will be

At Last, A Glimmer Of Hope For Alita: Battle Angel Sequel

At Last, A Glimmer Of Hope For Alita: Battle Angel Sequel

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American adaptions of Japanese properties tend to not go very well, with one exception. Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel, based on the manga series Battle Angel Alita, is the one such adaption I haven’t heard anyone say anything negative about. In fact, most people love it. The only problem is, the massive following it has today wasn’t there in 2019 when the film came out. Alita only did okay at the box office, and given how expensive it was to make, 20th Century Fox put aside all hopes for a sequel. That was then, this is now. Producer Jon Landau told Screen Rant that he is in talks with director Rodriguez and Rosa Salazar (the actress who played Alita) for a possible follow-up. “We’re working on it,” he said, and added that for the time being, “all is good.” Alita is the story of an amnesiac cyborg with giant eyes who wakes up one day on top of a scrap pile with no memory of how she

James Cameron – Self-Made Director

James Cameron – Self-Made Director

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I first learned about James Cameron when the first part of the Terminator Franchise, Terminator, was released in 1984.  It is not often that fans pay attention to movie directors, but the film was written and directed by the same person, and this moved me to investigate the story behind it. Meanwhile, he worked on the Piranha Franchise sequel, he had a dream from which he created an alien cyborg sent from the future to prevent the birth of John Conner, the man who would be able to defeat the aliens. The movie presented excellent graphics that were convincing enough to draw my attention. What I discovered about Cameron then, inspired me even more. Although he moves around with some of the top college-educated colleagues, he dropped out of high school, even though he eventually completed a GED. Cameron started a trucking job, but in his spare time, he visited the library and studied graphics and filming. He became good at what he did and created his first test movie

Avatar: Way of Water surpassed $2.024 Billion in the box office!

Avatar: Way of Water surpassed $2.024 Billion in the box office!

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When a Movie makes a Billion dollars in the box office, It is usually considered a success.  However, in the case of Avatar: Way of Water it will be considered a bomb. James Cameron said in an interview that the movie needs to make $2. to break even. This movie took 13 years to make  and the budget and marketing is pass $250, not including marketing. Also movie producers have to split some earnings to Theater owners. So Imagine all the pressure people behind this movie had been through. This movie had to overcome obstacles including cutthroat competition and the pandemic that was going on in China. There is a possibility that members of Generation Z are unaware of this film series because they have never been able to view the first installment in the series. These obstacles have been eliminated in their entirety. As of the time this article was written, the hotly anticipated follow-up film has grossed $2.02 billion.   Avatar: Way of Water defeated competitions like Black

Yet Another Trailer For Avatar 2 Is Out

Yet Another Trailer For Avatar 2 Is Out

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The third trailer for Avatar 2 was released yesterday, but there’s not that much difference between it and the previous two. There’s swimming, and then there’s more swimming. It is subtitled The Way Of Water, so it’s not like the name is inaccurate, but we feel like it needs a bit more than this to hold our interest. What drives us crazy is that we’ve been here before as critics and Cameron has defied us every time. During production, Titanic once reached the point where it would need to become the most successful film in history to make a profit. It did. People pointed at the original Avatar’s lack of originality and said there was no way it would make the billions 20th Century wanted. It did. But…how can Avatar 2 be anything but a flop? How? Sequels are Cameron’s strength. Aliens and Terminator 2 are two of the best films of all time. But this doesn’t FEEL like T2. It feels like a rerun of Avatar 1. His other

Avatar: The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water

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Avatar was one of James Cameron‘s biggest films. It made $2.922 billion back in 2009. At first, I thought I would wait for 4 years to see the sequel, but it took 13 years before we got to return to the extrasolar moon, called Pandora. This extrasolar  moon revolves around the gas giant planet Polyphemus.  James Cameron once said he wanted to explore the nearby moons of Polyphemus. I wonder if this is that film. Pandora is a moon where a species of human-cat hybrid creature called Na’vi resides. In the first film, humans who wanted to colonize this moon for its resources used Na’vi clones called Avatar. Pandora might be a moon that is full of life, but humans cannot breathe its cyanide-rich air. So through a machine, they temporarily transfer their consciousness through the avatars so they can interact with the Navi. In the first film, Jake Sully, who is a paraplegic human from Earth, fell in love with the Neytiri. She is a female Navi warrior who

The Avatar 2 Teaser Is Certainly Blue

The Avatar 2 Teaser Is Certainly Blue

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For a long time there’s been this crowd waiting with anticipation for one of James Cameron’s big pet projects to bomb. When reports came out of Titanic going way over budget, people thought it’d be that one — nope, biggest hit of 1997. When trailers for Avatar began showing up, and South Park accurately parodied the film before it was released, everyone thought “this is gonna be Cameron’s crash down to Earth,” but — nope, biggest hit of 2009. Thirteen years later, it’s almost time for Cameron to come out of his groundhog hole again, and the odds of seeing his shadow seem greater than ever with his latest being a sequel to Avatar. The thing about all those other films is that they weren’t repeats of what he had done before. It’s unproven ground for him — and that’s brought the familiar murmuring of  “yup, this is gonna be the one.” We still don’t have the foggiest idea of what Avatar 2 is about, other than Jake (now stuck

Turns Out That Story About The Aliens Pitch Is True

Turns Out That Story About The Aliens Pitch Is True

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In the wild west of the Internet, it’s difficult to know what information to trust. Some anecdotes have waffled back and forth between “this is true” and “this is just a myth” — one that comes to mind is the story that Donkey Kong got his name from Shigeru Miyamoto looking into a Japanese thesaurus and seeing “donkey” listed as a synonym for “stubborn.” I’m pretty sure I read an interview where he confirmed this happened, but there is still a debate going around on whether it did. Another legend is that of James Cameron’s Aliens pitch. Cameron was a relative nobody in Hollywood until he made The Terminator. 20th Century Fox in particular wanted to hear any other ideas he had. So the story goes that Cameron went to a whiteboard, wrote the word “ALIEN” on it, and then added an “S.” Then, after waiting for the reaction, he drew two vertical lines through the S, turning it into a dollar sign and the kind of language they would

New Terminator Dark Fate Trailer: The Day After Judgment Day

New Terminator Dark Fate Trailer: The Day After Judgment Day

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The date of the apocalypse in Terminator 2 was said to be August 29, 1997. That date came and gone, but Fox figured the world’s most recent August 29 — yesterday — was a good time to release a new Terminator Dark Fate trailer. (And if they ever try to make a “Terminator Holiday” in the vein of Star Wars or Aliens Day, this is probably the date they have in mind.) So here it is, on the Day After Judgment Day…a new peek. Director James Cameron, who brilliantly executed the first two films, is finally returning and ignoring every bit of nonsense that happened between T2 and now. The Connors did indeed prevent the Rise of the Machines in 1997….so what are they doing back all of a sudden? And is that really the T-800? How? We last saw that thing giving the thumbs up as it melted. Cameron said in an interview with Deadline that he’s been very hands-on with the project, though he is not directing (that

SDCC 2019: The Original John Connor Will Return For Terminator Dark Fate

SDCC 2019: The Original John Connor Will Return For Terminator Dark Fate

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The Terminator Dark Fate panel at SDCC 2019 did not show off a new trailer (perhaps that’s coming later), but it did reveal two interesting facts about the film no one knew before. John Connor will be in the movie. Until now, there was speculation that John was dead in the movie’s current time frame, or something, because he hasn’t been shown in any footage, hasn’t been glimpsed in any set photos, and hasn’t even been mentioned in any official descriptions. But it turns out they were saving that one for SDCC: John’s in the movie. The John Connor we’ll be getting is the O.G. A different actor has played John in every subsequent movie after T2, but James Cameron is actually bringing back THE Edward “She’s gonna blow him away!” Furlong, who played the kid version of John in his first appearance. That’s awesome. If that wasn’t cool enough, Cameron also confirmed he’s shooting for an R rating, a badge Terminator hasn’t worn since 1991. He then shared stories

The Blu-Ray For Alita: Battle Angel Is Packed

The Blu-Ray For Alita: Battle Angel Is Packed

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We have to say we’re pleased with the massive list of special features for the home video release of Alita: Battle Angel, which was announced today. A lot of today’s movies don’t put nearly as much effort into their disc versions as they did in the glory days of the 2000s, but not Alita. Alita does it right, with a mountain of extras larger than the title character’s eyeballs. Alita: Battle Angel Blu-ray™ Special Features Alita’s World – get a deeper look into the world of Alita: Battle Angel with these dynamic motion comics. The Fall – a look back at the terrible war that almost destroyed two planets and set the stage for the cyborg warrior Alita’s return 300 years later. Iron City – Hugo gives a guided tour of the Iron City he knows, showing off its dark corners and broken-down neighborhoods. What it Means to be a Cyborg – hunter-warrior Zapan tracks his mark across Iron City while musing about what it means to be a cyborg.

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

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