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Exclusive Interview: Stephen Lang (Avatar) - Part I
5 hours ago | ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news »
Stephen Lang is one of those actors: You may not know his name, but you know his face, his voice and, most importantly, you don't easily forget his remarkable performances. Long before Jack Nicholson played Col. Nathan Jessup in the big-screen version of A Few Good Men (1992), Lang originated the role on Broadway. And his film and television credits include Manhunter (1986), Crime Story (TV), Tombstone (1993), the 2001 TV series edition of The Fugitive (he was the one-armed man), The Bronx Is Burning (2007), and more. And he's having a hell of a 2009, with roles in The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009), Public Enemies (2009) and now, the film that may finally help people match a name to that face and voice, James Cameron's sci-fi epic, Avatar (2009). Set for release on Dec. 18, Avatar is a big-budget, high-tech spectacle in which humans threaten the homeworld of the indigenous population, the Na'vi, on a moon called Pandora. »
- ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
James Cameron On Past And Future Plans To Shoot In Outer Space
5 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
James Cameron, director of "Avatar" doesn't ever do things halfway. The time it took the boat in "Titanic" sunk mirrored the time the actual boat took to sink. The shoot for "The Abyss" lasted roughly half a year, with the cast clocking insane numbers of hours each week, much of that time spent underwater. And then there's the so-called "game-changer" that is "Avatar," a thoroughly gripping deep space adventure shot in extremely impressive 3-D.
The next stop for Cameron could be outer space, assuming he gets his way. Not "Avatar"'s beautifully rendered digital landscapes, mind you. Actual outer space. Like 6+ miles over the surface of the Earth. As Cameron exclusively told MTV's Josh Horowitz, he was at one point deep into the process of planning a trip into the stratosphere.
"I had it worked out with the Russians, with the Energia Corporation," he explained. "I had a contract and I'd begun training, »
- Adam Rosenberg
Should 'Avatar' Be Considered for Best Animated Oscar?
9 hours ago | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Photo: 20th Century Fox I'm not going to ask why Avatar isn't on the Academy's short list for Best Animated Oscar because the answer to that question is obvious... it wasn't submitted. Perhaps that's just the problem though. Why not? And don't go jumping to a quick decision. Let me give you a little food for thought. I might be able to make a case that will have you considering it much more than you may think.
First off, let's look at a few details to help the discussion along. Here are four of the 20 films that were submitted for consideration in the Best Animated Feature Film category: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Disney's A Christmas Carol Monsters vs. Aliens Up Keep those films in the back of your mind for a second while I ask (and try to answer) a few questions you may »
- Brad Brevet
'Avatar' Director James Cameron Confesses To His 'God Complex'
9 hours ago | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'Every director has a God complex,' said the director who proclaimed himself 'King of the World' when his 'Titanic' won the best-picture Oscar.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Photo: MTV News
He is writer and director. He is cinematographer and camera operator. He is the creator of an entirely new language and the leader of a team of artists inventing creatures and forests and a race of aliens who are all left-handed simply because he, too, is left-handed. Possibly the only job James Cameron didn't slip into during the years-long production of "Avatar" was working the grill station at the craft-service tent.
Might Cameron have just a smidgen of a God complex? Or, at the very least, a lofty, if more terrestrially based, opinion of his own talents? This is the guy, after all, who infamously declared himself King of the World at the 1998 "Titanic"-dominated Oscars. »
Sigourney Weaver Avatar Interview Yields Aliens Blu-ray Scoop
10 hours ago | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Sigourney Weaver recently sat down with the La Times to talk about her role as brash cigarette smoking botanist Grace Augustine in James Cameron's Avatar. Like any good reporter, interviewer Geoff Boucher made sure to ask Weaver what's next on her plate. The answer is just what Blu-ray adopters have been waiting for.
Sometime in the next few weeks, Sigourney will sit down and watch Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection to record new audio commentaries for the upcoming release of the Quadrilogy on Blu-ray Disc.
"I've never done that, watched all of them in a row," Weaver said. "I just recently made my [19-year-old] daughter watch them. She had never seen them before, believe it or not. I think she just prefers to think of me as good ol' mom, you know, not some person running around a spaceship with a flamethrower."
The Alien Quadrilogy should make its »
Their Best Role: Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien' and 'Aliens'
10 hours ago | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
It's very rare when the Academy Awards reward a performance in an action film. Then again, it's all too rare when a performance dares to stand out in an action film, and especially from a heroine. No, if you want a Best Actress nomination, you pretty much have to smash the loudest plate or have the most sickly terminal illness.
That is, unless you're Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, and you already rose to the occasion as the lone survivor of the commercial starship Nostromo. Now you wield maternal instincts as fiercely as you do a flamethrower when stranded on a planet full of nasty extraterrestrials just like the one that took out your previous crew, and instead of oozing cool like so many Marines around you, you sweat and worry and scream, which makes us care all the more when the Marines start getting picked off one by one.
Let »
- William Goss
question of the day: What is the secret of James Cameron’s success?
11 hours ago | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
James Cameron is the 12th highest-grossing director in film history, having earned $1.117 billion (and that’s just domestically) from just seven films. With Avatar, he is likely to surpass Chris Columbus, currently at No. 5... and if Avatar does Titanic business, he could catapult to the No. 3 spot, behind Robert Zemeckis and the king, Steven Spielberg. And unlike many of the directors currently ahead of him, none of his movies are based on world-famous comic-book characters, beloved works of literature, popular novels, theme-park rides, or toy lines, and only one is a sequel: Aliens. To say that there’s been a lot of hype around Avatar is putting it mildly, but when you look at Cameron’s work, it suddenly doesn’t seem quite so unjustified... and the presumed achilles heel that might cut into its box office -- that it’s not based on a franchise or characters that have a ready-made, »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Avatar: Average & Spectacular
17 hours ago | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
James Cameron has always, honestly, made me go "wow". Watching from behind a cushion as Arnie popped his ruined eyeball into sink, grinning from ear to ear every time I watched Ripley fight the Alien queen sometime around 3am on channel 4 for the 3,000th time or seeing T1000's metallic bullet wounds heal over and that little smile curl his lips. Yet, oddly and as much as I love those films, there's always been something in the way James Cameron put his ideas on the screen recently that makes the movie itself somehow seem like it comes in with a second place trophy, just losing out to the technology that helped make it. Cameron's Avatar introduces us to paraplegic marine, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington, once again fighting his Aussie accent every step of the way) as he scores a trip to replace his brilliant scientist brother (may he rest in »
- Neil Innes
Weaver: 'I wanted to join Avatar adventure'
17 hours ago | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Sigourney Weaver has admitted that she was eager to go on another movie "adventure" with James Cameron. The actress, who first worked with Cameron on 1986's Aliens, appears in the director's latest release Avatar. She told journalists at a UK press conference for the film that she and Cameron have kept in touch since their first film collaboration. "I was always a great admirer of the challenges that Jim took on," Weaver said. "I have to say I was absolutely (more) »
- By Simon Reynolds
Another Very Cool Avatar Featurette
20 hours ago | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Here’s a very cool featurette for the upcoming film “Avatar” aka James Cameron’s Avatar by director James Cameron (Terminator 5, Battle Angel, Titanic) and starring Sam Worthington (Clash of the Titans, Terminator Salvation), Sigourney Weaver (Ghostbusters III, Aliens), Michelle Rodriguez (Fast & Furious) and Zoe Saldana (Star Trek). Click Here for more photos, news and videos from James Cameron’s Avatar. Synopsis: In a distant future, humanity discovers the planet ‘Alpha Centauri B-4′, and for those scientists and astronauts who’ve traversed the gulf between neighboring suns and arrived on its alien soil know it as ‘Pandora’. A world filled with an incredible diversity of beautiful and deadly ammonia-breathing lifeforms. Its also a world [...] »
- Brian Corder
Lance Henriksen is in Aliens vs. Predator!
23 hours ago | GameRant | See recent GameRant news »
If Lance Henriksen wasn’t already cool enough with a plethora of cool roles in cool movies, he’s even more awesome now with his recent push into the video game industry.
In one of the biggest video game releases of all time, Modern Warfare 2, Lance plays the voice of General Shepherd and now, he’ll be returning to a role he made famous on screen with Aliens, Alien 3 and the first Aliens vs. Predator film by playing the voice of Bishop in the upcoming Aliens vs. Predator video game.
The new AvP title is being brought to us by Sega and Rebellion Entertainment and in it, Henriksen will be playing the character of Karl Bishop Weyland, a descendant of Charles Bishop Weyland that he played in the first Aliens vs. Predator film.
“This is the first time I’ve been fully represented in a game, with my voice and how I look, »
- Rob Keyes
A Cameron Cornucopia – The Value of James Cameron
13 December 2009 6:37 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
We are on the cusp of the debut of one of Hollywood’s most anticipated releases in years, James Cameron’s Avatar. With concern about being the “most expensive movie in feature film history” and its likening to the wars overseas (essentially a movie-inspired take on the conquest of big oil over the small but feisty, native inhabitants of “Pandora”), there is a lot for Avatar and James Cameron to overcome even before its official release. Like most things however, one can find many potential answers from a review of the previous history of just about anything. Whether it’s the potential of a person to pay back money they might receive or the value to be reaped from a multi-million dollar blockbuster, answers can be found in what’s come before.
We’ll take a look at the movie history of director James Cameron to showcase how they succeeded, »
- Mike Wilkerson
'Avatar' director James Cameron: "My reputation probably was deserved at one point"
13 December 2009 7:30 AM, PST | Denver Movies Examiner | See recent Denver Movies Examiner news »
Avatar director James Cameron has a certain stigma. Some call him a jerk, others call him a slang term used for genitalia. I call him “El Fantastique.” The director of The Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens and Titanic knows all this and realizes he’s not the easiest person to get along with on set.
“My reputation probably was deserved at one point. I don’t think there is anybody who has worked with me, even now, who would describe me as mellow,” says Cameron. “But I do tend to work with the same people over and over. They’re either the dumbest, most masochistic people or there is a lot of exaggeration going on.”
When talking about the hyped 3D film Avatar, the director gushed: “We all deeply care that Avatar is well received,” he explained. “But even if it isn’t, I don’t think we will have wasted four years of work. »
Excel Home Videos brings James Cameron.s films on DVD
12 December 2009 11:29 PM, PST | BusinessofCinema | See recent BusinessofCinema news »
With James Cameron’s movie Avatar releasing next week, Excel Home Videos brings some of his earlier films on home video. Some of Cameron’s films that will release on DVD are: Terminator, The Abyss, Aliens and Titanic. The DVD’s come with an offer of fifty rupee discount on an Avatar movie ticket, in any theatre in India. Cameron's forthcoming film Avatar is a science fiction epic and is also the first big budget action film to be shot in 3D, using revolutionary camera technology. The film is slated to release worldwide on ... »
Another International Avatar Movie Trailer
12 December 2009 11:00 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Watch the latest international trailer for the upcoming film “Avatar” aka James Cameron’s Avatar by director James Cameron (Terminator 5, Battle Angel, Titanic) and starring Sam Worthington (Clash of the Titans, Terminator Salvation), Sigourney Weaver (Ghostbusters III, Aliens), Michelle Rodriguez (Fast & Furious) and Zoe Saldana (Star Trek). Click Here for more photos, news and videos from James Cameron’s Avatar. Synopsis: In a distant future, humanity discovers the planet ‘Alpha Centauri B-4′, and for those scientists and astronauts who’ve traversed the gulf between neighboring suns and arrived on its alien soil know it as ‘Pandora’. A world filled with an incredible diversity of beautiful and deadly ammonia-breathing lifeforms. Its also a world [...] »
- Brian Corder
Director James Cameron on ‘Avatar’: “I don’t think we will have wasted four years of work.”
12 December 2009 7:19 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Avatar director James Cameron has a certain stigma. Some call him a jerk, others call him a slang term used for genitalia. I call him “El Fantastique.” The director of The Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens and Titanic knows all this and realizes he’s not the easiest person to get along with on set.
“My reputation probably was deserved at one point. I don’t think there is anybody who has worked with me, even now, who would describe me as mellow,” says Cameron. “But I do tend to work with the same people over and over. They’re either the dumbest, most masochistic people or there is a lot of exaggeration going on.”
When talking about the hyped 3D film Avatar, the director gushed: “We all deeply care that Avatar is well received,” he explained. “But even if it isn’t, I don’t think we will have wasted four years of work. »
- Reel Loop News Staff
'Avatar' Reviewed On MTV Movies Blog
12 December 2009 | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
24 hours have passed since I caught "Avatar" in London. And I suppose it's sunk in enough for what I'd call a still instinctual/gut review.
In a nutshell? This is the one you've been waiting for. Not since "The Dark Knight" has a Hollywood film been poised to take hold of popular culture like this one. Let the haters have at it. History will be kind. The dialogue may be trite at times. The cynic in you may urge you to roll your eyes at the sight of a blue alien or a snarling company man but then you're just going to miss out on the jaw-dropping adventure of the year.
So if you haven't bailed out yet... know this: you need to see this movie. For the first truly soulful performances made since motion capture was invented. For the sweep and the scope. For the small moments and the sublime. »
- Josh Horowitz
Its Story May Be Timeworn, But 'Avatar' is Breathtaking
11 December 2009 9:20 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Just like "worth the price of admission," "must-see" is an oft-overused descriptor for critics desperate for shorthand to proclaim a film's value. But James Cameron's long-gestating project Avatar left me speechless, searching for words to describe the impossible-seeming vision unfolding on the screen and trying to pry my jaw off the popcorn-and-candy-covered floor of the theater. Are "unmissable" and "essential" really any less lazy—or less true? Not seeing Avatar will not only leave people out of the cultural conversation sure to revolve around water coolers — not to mention around its incredible special effects — but they'll also miss a landmark in moviemaking.
Set in 2154, Avatar begins with the now-familiar premise that humanity has torn through its natural resources and now must look elsewhere for its necessities. The far-off planet of Pandora may provide a solution: beneath its lush jungles and thriving plains lies stores of Unobtainium, a highly valuable »
James Cameron's "Avatar"
11 December 2009 2:55 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
I don’t know why it should come as a surprise to anyone that writer/director James Cameron should continue to own, or, as the kids today say, Pwn, the science-fiction/fantasy genre in cinema. After all, he single-handedly rejuvenated said genre with pretty much zero money and plenty of imagination and filmic ingenuity with 1984’s The Terminator; made the Ultimate Sci-Fi Smash-Bang War Movie, Non Ironic Division, with 1986’s utterly awesome Aliens (the prize in Ironic Division goes to Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers, which Aliens made possible anyway), screwed around with the Terminator character in ways that ought to have been utterly unconscionable, and probably were, and made a colossal entertainment out of the misbegotten enterprise Terminator 2 (1991) anyway, and then…stopped doing science-fiction/fantasy films, unfortunately. Yes, the Bond meets Austrian-Dubbed Father Knows Best hybrid True Lies (1994) did contain some spectacularly far-fetched set pieces that could have come out »
James Cameron talks 'Avatar': Exclusive quotes from this week's issue
11 December 2009 9:15 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
It's been 15 years -- and hundreds of millions of dollars -- in the making. Now, James Cameron's Avatar is just a week away from hitting theaters. As the buzz becomes deafening, Cameron sat with EW's Josh Rottenberg to talk about taking risks, being the underdog, and why he thinks Terminator 2 holds up -- but Aliens doesn't. Check out a few highlights below, and pick up our current issue for the full Q&A. On early reactions comparing the Na'vi to Smurfs and Jar Jar Binks: "I think the Smurfs thing is funny, personally. Jar Jar is a bit of a low blow. »
- Adam Markovitz
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