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James Cameron May Board Adaptation of The Last Train To Hiroshima

9 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

According to Monsters And Critics, James Cameron visited a 93-year-old man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi on December 22nd.  Yamaguchi, who died of stomach cancer on Monday, is most famous as the only official survivor of both the atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.  Cameron reportedly visited Yamaguchi with Charles Pellegrino, the author of The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back, to discuss a possible future film about nuclear weaponry.  For more details on the visit and what could potentially be Cameron’s follow-up to Avatar, hit the jump.

Yamaguchi says that Cameron told him he was interested in making a film so that he could pass on the tragic story of suffering through two atomic blasts on to future generations, promising that the film would be “uncompromising”. Cameron also told Yamaguchi that the fear of nuclear war has been on his mind since »

- Brendan Bettinger

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The Magnificent Seven ?

12 hours ago | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

"Bake offs" sounds like something the Academy would have asked 1950s candidates for Best Actress to do. But no, it's a term for the winnowing of contestants in various Oscar races prior to the nominations themselves. They almost never go for visual effects that aren't solely computer generated which is why (we presume) that Where the Wild Things Are's fantastic blend of puppets, stunts, sets, makeup effects and CGI didn't place. The seven finalists for Oscar's Best CGI competition also known as best visual effects are:Avatar

flying dragons, 3D, actors as statuesque blue aliens, spaceships and exo-skeletons District 9

prawn-like aliens, grotesque transformations, and badass weaponry Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

sinewy sinister black clouds, frequent apparating, and the usualStar Trek

world destruction, space drilling, and boldly going where 9 other films had gone beforeTerminator Salvation

heavy metal, resurrecting Ahnuld, aerial craziness and a brand new cyborgTransformers: »

- NATHANIEL R

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Gold Derby nuggets: Can Mariah Carey top herself at Pca? | 'Avatar' & six other VFX finalists | 'Precious' leads with 8 NAACP Image nods

14 hours ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

• Following up on her antics at Tuesday's Palm Spring filmfest -- reported in detail by Pete Hammond -- Mariah Carey should make for must-see TV tonight. As Roger Friedman reports she, "is all set to pick up her People’s Choice Award tonight on CBS. She’s a winner, I’m told, for Best R&B singer. What? Yes, everyone seems to know who’s won those People’s Choice Awards before they arrive at the studio." As Roger writes, "If you watch this show, you’ll know who’s won right away by who’s in the audience waiting to get their award. Since Hugh Jackman, Sandra Bullock, Carrie Underwood, and Taylor Swift are already being promoted by CBS, you can guess they won their categories. Surprise! They’re not hanging around that studio for their health!" Showbiz 411

• Another diva -- Jennifer Lopez -- is none too pleased with »

- tomoneil

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Cool Stuff: Hot Toys’ Terminator 2: Judgment Day: 1/6th scale T800 collectible figure

19 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Hot Toys will be releasing a 1/6th scale T800 collectible figure from the Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The T800 figure is specially crafted based on the image of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie, "highlighting the newly sculpted muscular body and detailed head." The figure is expected to be released in April/May 2010.  More information and photos after the jump. The 1/6th scale T800 specially features: - Authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger as T800 in the movie Terminator 2 - Newly developed rubber upper body with Pvc material limbs, further stands out the muscular body and which also highly imitates the genuine Arnold one in the T2 movie - Stands even taller with approximately 32 cm height - Over 30 points of articulations -Two pairs of interchangeable palms (a pair of punches and a pair of relaxed palms) plus one right palm for holding the shotgun - An interchangeable left »

- Peter Sciretta

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What We're Reading: Up-and-coming 'Avatar' Stars Radically Transform Their Careers

22 hours ago | AMC - Script to Screen | See recent AMC - Script to Screen news »

USA Today has a great article about the two big stars from "Avatar," Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington. Although audiences saw the actors in big action flicks over the summer -- in "Star Trek" and "Terminator: Salvation" respectively -- it was "Avatar" and its director James Cameron that really kick-started their careers.

From the article:

Now, like Titanic's Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet before them, two relatively unknown actors are watching as yet another Cameron film crushes the box-office competition. ... Actors like Linda Hamilton (Terminator), DiCaprio and Winslet were relatively low on Hollywood's radar until teaming with Cameron. The director says he typically seeks fresh faces for his films because of their "lack of baggage."

"Avatar" has had a career-changing impact on both actors. Worthington gave up plans to trek through Australia for the opportunity to read for the director. His intensity and commitment won him the part.

For Saldana, »

- Christina Warren

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Is 'Avatar' your favorite James Cameron movie?

5 January 2010 1:22 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

While Hollywood's bean counters are all in a tizzy, scrambling to predict whether Avatar has a chance of smashing Titanic's record as the biggest box-office hit of all time, we here at EW are preoccupied with more esoteric questions -- questions that reach beyond the mere philistine accounting of dollars and cents! Namely, is Avatar James Cameron's best film? We realize there's a lot of love out there right now for the visionary director's brand new 3-D sci-fi-apalooza. And I think we can all agree that it's a helluva lot better than 1981's Piranha 2: The Spawning. But »

- Chris Nashawaty

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Avatar exceeds expectations in UK to corner the Christmas market

5 January 2010 4:37 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

James Cameron's 3D epic beat Sherlock Holmes and Alvin and the Chipmunks this holiday, and gave Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy and Rob Marshall's Nine a positive whipping

The winner

Given Avatar's epic duration and the limited number of 3D screens in the UK, the film's box office performance was always likely to be more long haul than quick burn. But takings of £5.94m on its third weekend go far beyond expectations. For comparison, third-weekend takings on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – by some distance, 2009's biggest UK box office hit – were £2.92m. After 17 days on release, Avatar has taken a nifty £32.82m, but it's the film's earnings potential, rather than sums grossed so far, that have got the industry excited. The 17-day figure is hardly record-breaking, but much more significant is that Avatar has hardly dipped from its opening weekend of £6.67m; until it starts showing declines, »

- Charles Gant

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James Cameron – Technology Catching Up With His “Avatar” Vision

4 January 2010 9:45 AM, PST | HollywoodOutbreak.com | See recent Hollywood Outbreak news »

James Cameron is a filmmaker’s filmmaker. He’s enjoying huge success with his movie Avatar, but he’s known for bringing in big bucks for all his flicks. Whether it’s Aliens, Terminator or his granddaddy of box office champs, Titanic, Cameron’s stories connect with audiences – and he’ll be the first to tell you it’s because of [...] »

- Hollywood Outbreak

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Is 'Avatar' Star Sam Worthington The New Leonardo DiCaprio?

4 January 2010 2:24 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

James Cameron made both into billion-dollar movie stars, but can Worthington follow 'Titanic' heavyweight Leo?

By Larry Carroll

Sam Worthington in "Avatar"

Photo: 20th Century Fox

At first glance, the pair would seem to be miles apart. Leonardo DiCaprio is arguably the biggest movie star in the world, a three-time Oscar nominee in the prime of his career, a fiercely private all-American actor whose name can get any script the green light. Sam Worthington is an endearingly outspoken British/Australian veteran roughly the same age, positioned as "the next big thing" for some time and only now breaking through with a series of high-profile flicks.

To some, however, history may be repeating itself. A little more than a decade after DiCaprio became a household name with "Titanic," a billion dollars' worth of moviegoers have now seen Worthington's face in "Avatar." With that in mind, here are three reasons »

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Avatar Is An Epic Success

3 January 2010 4:00 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Back in the day (read: three weeks ago), some people said James Cameron’s weird blue alien movie with its gimmicky 3D effects would flop at the box office. Heck, they had spent so much making this movie and so much marketing it last minute, that there’s no way it would succeed, right? It would never come close to the numbers that Twilight Saga’s New Moon made in November; It wouldn’t even compete against Sherlock Holmes.

Those people were all wrong.

After 17 days, including a December opening weekend record, a record for the largest opening of an original film not based on an existing property (novel, short story) or film (sequel, remake), the biggest second weekend of all time, the biggest third weekend of all time, among many other records, Avatar hit it big amongst critics, fans and the box office; And it’s only the beginning. »

- Rob Keyes

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23 Movies Worth Saving (From the First 23 Years of My Life)

2 January 2010 1:16 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

With the Library of Congress’ recent announcement of the 25 films being added to our National Film Registry for 2009, I was inspired to look back over some of the films that haven’t yet been included. In doing so, I noticed there are many films from my lifetime that deserve eventual recognition. The National Film Preservation Board selects up to 25 films each year to be included in the Registry, so I have selected 23 yet unselected films from my lifetime (one for each year) that I would like to nominate for 2010… in fact, I’ve actually submitted my list of nominations to the National Film Preservation Board, as they encourage the public to do. More info on this can be found at their website.

This list of 23 films spans my lifetime, which means they fall between my year of birth (1978) and the new cut-off year which is 10 years back (2000). This is Not »

- Travis

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Analyzing 2009

2 January 2010 11:43 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

The 2009 film industry highlight reel is fun to watch. You are reminded of the $10 billion in ticket sales. The negative impact of the economy on specialty films. The $4 billion Disney-Marvel acquisition. But a highlight reel, while succinctly packaged and easy to reference, lacks the most essential element of film-a story. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen co-writer Roberto Orci stressed the necessity of crafting a solid story in order to create a compelling film. “If you can’t take out the gimmick and still have a story, then you don’t have anything,” he said. Setting aside for the time being the fact that Orci seemingly ignored his own advice during the writing of Transformers 2, he is right-a good story is essential if viewers are to remember the film after the lights are raised. So, what story can be »

- David Corbin

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