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I know some of you have been waiting for this, while the rest of us are going ‘big deal’. The king of the worldwide box office of all time, director James Cameron previously said his game-changing movie will hit DVD this coming Earth Day, which I thought was appropriate since AVATAR did carry lots of environmental, love your nature message, and that the Blu-Ray might arrive later on this year. Well, both are hitting the streets at the same time now, because Fox has announced that AVATAR Blu-Ray and DVD will arrive on April 22nd, 2010 for United States and Canada..Check out the list below for additional release dates around the world, after this jump… Read the rest of this entry »

Whoa! Look who’s back to join us again. It’s been a while since we heard anything about David Fincher’s long attempt to bring a new HEAVY METAL Movie to the big screen. Last summer we heard names like Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski, David Fincher, Kevin Eastman, James Cameron all attached to each do a segment for this new anthology and now there’s been a development, probably because this might be what Fincher want to seriously pursuit after he’s done working on that Facebook biopic, THE SOCIAL NETWORK… Read the rest of this entry »

The two highest grossing movies of all time are Avatar and Titanic. James Cameron is the king of the box office worldwide, he’s richer than Zeus. Talking to USA TODAY recently, once again he’s trying to again emphasize 3D and how it needs to be a part of cinematic life even television in your homes. But here’s a couple of interesting things that he mentioned… Read the rest of this entry »

Moviemavericks came up with this funny animated critics video that makes fun of The Hurt Locker producer Nicholas Chartier being banned from the Oscars because he sent out those stupid e-mails. Thanks to Rama’s SCREEN reader Sage for the heads up…. Read the rest of this entry »

Their movies aren’t the only two favorites to win Best Picture, they as directors are also going head to head for Best Director category. The term Battle Of The Exes has been used by many to describe James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow this year so I figured why not use it again… Read the rest of this entry »

Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Bruno) was supposed to be one of the presenters at Oscars this weekend but now his name is gone from the list. Vulture said because co-producer Bill Mechanic decided to pull the plug on the AVATAR sketch that Ben Stiller and Cohen had been preparing for the evening. Mechanic was worried that James Cameron would be so offended by it that the billion dollar director would walk out of the Oscar broadcast on live TV.
So what’s the sketch about? After the jump… Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of months ago, James Cameron optioned the rights to THE LAST TRAIN FROM HIROSHIMA: THE SURVIVORS LOOK BACK by author Charles Pellegrino. The non-fiction book is about Tsutomu Yamaguchi, one of the last survivors of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII. Cameron wants to make an uncompromising film about nuclear weapons, sharing Yamaguchi’s experience to future generations. But alas, AP said the book itself won’t hit the streets anytime soon because there are doubts and questions about how real the accounts in the story were, I call this A Million Little Pieces moment… Read the rest of this entry »

James Cameron revealed, via LA TIMES, that he offered the role Jake Sully to a few big names because Fox wanted “a bankable star to offset some of the risks of the expensive project” Turns out, Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal those names but they said no, they turned down Cameron. The role eventually went to the Sam Worthington, the Aussie actor that Cameron had always wanted for AVATAR… Read the rest of this entry »

When AVATAR co-producer Jon Landau talked about James Cameron was mentoring director Marc Webb who wants to make SPIDER-MAN reboot in 3D, Landau spoke out against converting a movie into 3D later on just like what Clash Of The Titans remake did. In an interview with MTV, Cameron also has the same strong opinion… Read the rest of this entry »

If you thought AVATAR was awesome and can’t wait for the DVD and Blu-Ray to hit the stores, well, the king of the worldwide box office, James Cameron talked recently, via Wall Street Journal that since AVATAR’s message is environmental, the standard def DVD will arrive on Earth Day while the 3-D Blu-Ray might come later in November, although Fox Home Entertainment said that the 3-D Blu-Ray is still in conceptual stages so it might not arrive in November after all.. Read the rest of this entry »