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South Park Parodies Avatar With The Smurfs
40 minutes ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
It hasn.t even been released yet, but somehow, James Cameron.s Avatar has already forged a permanent place in our pop cultural consciouciousness. It.s place was solidified Wednesday night when Cameron.s blue alien eco-movie was paralleled by South Park in their latest episode .Dances with Smurfs.. South Park uses real Smurfs, in Dances with Wolves style movie made by Cartman. But just in case there.s any doubt as to what the show.s little blue creatures were really meant to represent, the show ends with Cartman going to see Avatar and realizing that he.s just been ripped off by James Cameron. Get in line buddy. Check out the relevant clip below: And for those of you with more time on your hands, click here for the entire episode (the bit in which Cartman goes to see Avatar pops up at the end). »
Extended “Avatar” TV Spot
3 hours ago | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
20th Century Fox has been released a new extended TV spot for James Cameron’s “Avatar” and you can see some new footage from the anticipated movie.
The story’s hero is Jake Sully, a former Marine (Sam Worthington) confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he’s still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for, and he finds it in the place he least expected: on a distant world.
Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per kilogram on Earth.
To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person’s consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora’s indigenous humanoids, the Na’vi. This human-Na’vi hybrid – a fully living, breathing body that resembles the Na’vi but possesses the individual human’s thoughts, »
- Fiona
Could Avatar be a cutting-edge white elephant?
4 hours ago | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
I bought my ticket for Avatar at the Imax last week. I got an E-mail from BFI announcing they were on sale. I rushed to my computer, and inevitably the website was struggling to cope with the sheer volumes of people trying to buy tickets. After fifteen minutes of refresh, refresh, refresh (not bad) I managed to get in, get a ticket for Thursday 16th (right of the middle) , and breathed a huge sigh of relief. I’d managed to get one before they sold out!
Now, over a week later, there are still tickets available. What? Avatar, James Cameron’s feature film follow up to the biggest grossing movie ever, Titanic? Avatar, the film tipped to advance 3D film technology to unheard of levels? Avatar, 12 years and (allegedly) $350 million in the making? I’d always considered the Imax a bit too much of a gimmick. It was a big screen, »
- Barry Steele
“B” Movie Titan Roger Corman To Receive Honorary Oscar
6 hours ago | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Eighty-three-year-old Roger Corman, who has produced nearly 400 "B" movies -- none of them regarded as a candidate for an Oscar nomination -- over a career that began 55 years ago, will himself receive an honorary Oscar at next year's ceremonies, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday. Corman later told the Associated Press that even he was "truly surprised" by the announcement. "I felt the academy would not give an award to someone who made low-budget films," he said. Unlike the major studios, Corman has used his own money to finance his exploitation films, generally investing in unknown talent who later achieved star status, including Frances Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, John Sayles, and Peter Bogdanovich. "I know that they all would have achieved the same level if they had never met me," Corman told the wire service, "but I think what I was able to do was to give them a start and help them a little bit in their careers, and I take great pride in that." »
Watch This: South Park’s Parody of James Cameron’s Avatar
7 hours ago | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Editor's Note: This article contains potential spoilers from last night's South Park episode. You've been warned. Have you guys seen this? Have you seen this one? You may have, but I've decided to show it to you anyway. Our friends at /Film may have gotten to it first, but it's worth mentioning again. Last night, the brilliant minds of South Park -- the last bastion of great parody work in this world -- lampooned the concept behind James Cameron's upcoming film Avatar. In the episode, Eric Cartman goes into Glenn Beck mode and tells his very personal story about his time spent with The Smurfs. He then later finds out that his story, which was made into a movie called Dances with Smurfs, has been stolen by James Cameron and adapted into the film Avatar. It's brilliant. Check out part of the episode in the clip below, or check out the entire thing over at Southpark »
- Neil Miller
Lol: South Park’s Avatar Parody
7 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
The latest episode of South Park, an episode titled "Dancing With Smurfs," (spoilers ahead) made an attempt to parody James Cameron's upcoming 3D sci-fi epic Avatar. During the episode, Cartman becomes a Glenn Beck /Bill O'reilly like character, and at one point recalls a tale about spending time with the Smurfs. He became "one of them," falling in love with Smurfette, and leading a revolt against the humans (led by Wendy) who have come to pillage and ruin smurfland. You can watch a clip of Cartman's story after the jump. Or head on over to Southpark Studios to see the full episode, which yes, leads to James Cameron adapting the story for the big screen. »
- Peter Sciretta
James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Releases An Extended 4th Action Movie Trailer
8 hours ago | OnTheFlix | See recent OnTheFlix news »
James Cameron's 'Avatar' releases an extended 4th action movie trailer. 20th Century Fox is heavy on the promotion trail these days, for it's new James Cameron's "Avatar" movie. They have delivered a new, exclusive,extended three minute and 30 second trailer. The movie stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, Cch Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, and Matt Gerald »
- Andre@ontheflix
Introducing the James Cameron Self-Parody Danger Zone!
8 hours ago | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
If there's one thing I'm anticipating almost as much as Avatar, it's the James Cameron press tour in support of Avatar. Our irrepressible King of the World has been off the scene for ages, but he's come back with a quotable vengeance, delivering line after vainglorious line to the New Yorker and, now, Playboy. What better time to introduce the James Cameron Self-Parody Danger Zone, a metric that graphs Cameron's bon mots on a scale from relative modesty to boastful self-mythologizing? The Playboy interview was the first to go through our wringer. Enjoy the results: »
James Cameron to be Honored at Santa Barbara Film Fest
9 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Steve Pond
"Avatar" may still be a big question mark in the Oscar race, but its director, James Cameron, is a winner in the eyes of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
The Sbiff, which annual gives out a variety of awards to actors and filmmakers during the thick of awards season, has named Cameron the recipient of its top honor, the Lucky Brand Modern Master Award. The tribute will take place on February 6, 2010, four days after the announcement of Oscar nominations.
In making the announcement, festival executive director Roger Durling called Camer... »
- Steve Pond
James Cameron Never Wanted to Make 'Titanic'
10 hours ago | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Perhaps the most comically brilliant interview of the month will come sandwiched between naked ladies as a lengthy chat with James Cameron will be featured in December's issue of Playboy. While we don't have the actual interview for you to read, Playboy sent over a whole batch of quotes that were just too good to resist. Based on the quotes, it would appear the interview covers everything from Cameron's directorial approach to his inspiration (Star Wars) to his personal life (married five times) to his films to Christian Bale's famous on-set tirade ("Man, I have to take my hat off to this guy. I could not pull a rant like that if I had to.' I mean, I can get on a roll but not like that. I just had to bow down.").
And speaking of his films, Cameron was quite candid when Titanic came up, admitting there »
- Erik Davis
Analyst: 'MW2' to generate $$1bn worldwide
11 hours ago | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian has predicted that Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will generate $$1 billion (£604m) in sales worldwide this year. When it was released on November 10, the first-person-shooter smashed the UK sales record, shifting 1.23m units in its opening 24 hours. Activision also reported that the title sold over 3.5m copies in North America, generating $$310m in total sales revenue across the two territories. According to McV, Sebastian believes that the game will soon burst through the $$1bn mark, with sales of over 9m units by the end of its first week and 12.5m by the close of 2009. He claimed that the strong retail performance will put the title on a par with Michael Jackson's album Thriller and James Cameron's movie Titanic in terms of its earning power. "The launch of Modern Warfare 2 will (more) »
- By Andrew Laughlin
John Scalzi - Four Reasons Why Avatar Is Too Big to Fail
23 hours ago | amctv.com - John Scalzi | See recent amctv.com - John Scalzi news »
I was forwarded this New York Times article on James Cameron's scifi flick Avatar, and how the production and marketing of the movie will likely cost a staggering half-billion dollars. The friend who forwarded it to me wrote, "is this film ever going to make its money back?" Sure, it could, and probably will. Some of the answers are in the article itself: First, the half-billion under discussion is not »
Avatar Featurette Takes You Inside James Cameron's Dream World
11 November 2009 7:02 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Avatar seems to be the kind of movie that if not experienced in very specific circumstances (on a large, HD screen, in 3D), it comes off as cheesy and cartoonish. That's unfortunate for James Cameron and Fox. You can't make $250 million (which is how much Fox told the NY Times the movie would need to make to break even) on an obscure, odd-looking movie filled with blue aliens. But Fox thinks it's possible if you put "From The Director of Titanic" at the front of the trailer. I beg to differ. Titanic was a long time ago. Below you'll find a brand new featurette that focuses on the dream James Cameron had that inspired the film. It includes some great images as well as new insight into the creation of Avatar. I want this movie to be a success even though it's not necessarily my cup of tea, but with »
Is Ubisoft using 'Assassin's Creed II' to launch their own studio?
11 November 2009 6:00 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
It's fitting that I would discuss the ways narrative and gaming are starting to really collide and create new emotional reactions in games, reactions I've never had to a book or a film, just as Ubisoft starts to get serious about becoming an entertainment company that produces films, books, games, and anything else they want. Last night, I was invited to an event in Hollywood that illustrated just how fuzzy lines are getting these days. Ubisoft, the same company behind "Prince Of Persia" and the upcoming tie-in game for James Cameron's "Avatar", scored a sizeable hit two years ago with "Assassin's... »
Two Dreams That Changed Hollywood
11 November 2009 3:38 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Big dreams still come when we are at the top of our game, but sometimes the most influential ones come to us on the way up. If you read closely the profiles of those at the top, chances are you will find the moment when everything changed for them -- and chances are that moment came in a dream. In The New Yorker last month, director James Cameron tells about being sick and broke, staying in a tiny flat at a time of struggle early in his career. One night, he said, he dreamed of "a chrome skeleton emerging out of a fire." Then he sketched the figure cut in half and crawling after a woman. He said, "I thought, That was cool. I've never seen that in a movie before." Unlike most of us, who might have a startling dream image and... »
- Anne Hill
Interview: The Future of Voltron - Jeremy Corray
11 November 2009 12:19 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
With budgets on the rise and total investments for studio pictures creeping toward the half a billion dollar mark, Hollywood needs a sure thing. So we hear terms like, “built-in audience” or “high-concept” or “ancillary revenues.” The summer movie schedule becomes a long list of sequels, prequels and remakes in the studios’ quest to recoup their investments. The success of the Transformer franchise has them scrambling. Cartoons from the 80’s are now the hot property. The studios are scouring the countryside for the next Transformers. I’m hearing names that I haven’t heard since I was eight, He-man, Thundercats, Go-Bots, Silverhawks and the Mighty Orbots. But one of the most popular cartoons from the 80’s is still out there, Voltron.
I remember the years 1984-1986 fondly as “the Voltron years.” I lived, breathed, ate and slept Voltron. I believe I was 10 when I discovered the company that owns Voltron, »
The Flickcast – Episode 31: Attack of the Clones
11 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
This week on The Flickcast, Chris and Matt are joined by special guest Elisabeth Rappe and they waste no time diving into a whole ne batch of topics for the show. Some of these topics include Jim Cameron’s Avatar, Francis Lawrence’s Sgt. Rock movie for Warner Bros., Will Smith’s career and his remake of Oldboy, upcoming holiday movies, Cuba Gooding, Jr.’s career, clones, clones, clones and much more.
The three also made some cool picks this week, as they always do, including Elisabeth’s pick of the Netflix movie streaming service which features tons of great content, Matt’s pick of the sci-fi classic The Last Starfighter and Chris’ pick of the new V series on ABC which features, among others, Lost’s Elizabeth Mitchell, Party of Five’s Scott Wolf and Firefly’s Morena Bacarrin and Alan Tudyuk
As always, if you have comments, questions, »
- Joe Gillis
From the Palantir! (A Fantasy News Round-Up)
11 November 2009 9:49 AM, PST | thetorchonline | See recent thetorchonline news »
The Los Angeles Times has an informative update on the "fourth" film in each of these fantasy franchises: Pirates of the Caribbean, the works of Tolkien, Spider-man, and X-Men. James Cameron is an insane genius (and, it sounds like, a bit full of himself). A great New Yorker profile of the filmmaker, and an another interesting piece on how the revolutionary CGI effects in his upcoming Avatar were done. By contrast, Terry Gilliam thinks 3-D and other expensive effects tend to corrupt movies: "You're not there to disturb people when you're given 200 million dollars -- you're there to reassure them." God, I love that man. The Gathering Storm (the first book in the trilogy conclusion to The Wheel of Time) debuts at #1 this week on the New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller fiction hardcover lists, #2 on the Washington Post list, and #4 on the combined USA Today list. »
Is Avatar One of the Top 100 Movies of the Decade?
11 November 2009 6:23 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
The end of the decade is almost upon us, which means that over the next month or so you can expect to see all kinds of lists counting down the "Best Of" the previous 10 years in just about everything. One of the first publications out of the gate with their Best Movies of the Decade list is London's Telegraph [1], who count down their top 100 movies from 2000 to 2009. There are some interesting choices and some predictable ones, along with a few movies I've never even heard of. One thing that has a few people raising an eyebrow, however, is the fact that they've included James Cameron's Avatar on their list, based solely on the 15-minute IMAX preview! Isn't that a little presumptuous? To be fair, they did tack it on at the end of the list at #100, but it still feels like they're going mainly based on hype rather than anything concrete. »
- Sean
Bollywood and Hollywood shell out big monies
11 November 2009 5:01 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
But are they even close?
With a budget of Rs 1200 crores, James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ is the biggest film ever!
Bollywood has surely made its mark on the world by not just making a staggering number of movies in a year but are also breaking records with the moolah that is being invested in a single project!
The recently released ‘Blue’ produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd. was said to be the biggest and the most expensive movie made till date in Indian cinema, estimated at a whopping Rs. 80 crores, with additional crores spent on the marketing. »
- realbollywood
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