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Here is a wonderful featurette about James Cameron’s Avatar.  The featurette offers more details about the story, how the story developed and where the characters have been and where they are headed.

Sunday, November 1, 2009 on one of the biggest sports days of the year – NFL match ups plus Game 4 of the World Series – James Cameron’s Avatar trailer will get the world’s biggest live trailer viewing when it debuts on the world’s largest video display — Cowboy Stadium’s Diamond Vision Screen – while millions of football fans watch it at home. 

FOX Sports will take the entire country viewing FOX NFL SUNDAY, America’s No. 1 NFL pre-game show, to Arlington, Texas and the new Cowboys Stadium, where the three minute and thirty second trailer will play live from the enormous Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision screen. 

The crowd attending the Cowboys-Seattle Seahawks game will experience the Avatar trailer live just minutes prior to the noon (Central) kickoff between the Cowboys and Seahawks, on the enormous, four-sided, high-definition screen that hangs above the Cowboys Stadium playing field.  At the same time, millions of others watching FOX NFL SUNDAY will see the trailer on-air – making it the largest live motion picture trailer viewing in history.

In addition, throughout the day ninety-second Avatar commercial spots will air on all regional games carried on the Fox affiliates, the national game on Fox, and the World Series on Fox.

Avatar opens in theaters everywhere December 18.

You can see the same trailer today at Apple. Trailer Addict has a decent copy that shows the story that will sell the tickets. This movie is pure entertainment. Awesome!  Enjoy the trailer.

So okay, it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that, assuming the Earth doesn’t crash into the sun or something first, that there will be a sequel to James Cameron’s upcoming blockbuster Avatar.

And in order to stage Avatar 2, there’s whispers afoot that it may actually go out past the planet of Pandora and into other targets.  Check out this advance quote:

“What would you think if I told you that should a sequel to AVATAR happen, it might not even take place on Pandora? It’s all up the air as of now. But remember I’m telling you this. Pandora is not the be all and end all of the Consortium.”

Well, you know, everyone said G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was going to be a monster hit too, but as of the weekend of October 18th, it STILL hasn’t made its shooting budget back yet that I can tell, despite having made nearly a hundred and fifty million bucks at the domestic box office.

I wonder if that won’t happen here too….

Dana Goodyear wrote an astounding 12-page article for the October 26, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, in which she goes on the set of James Cameron’s Avatar for an early look at the 3-D world that Cameron has created for the upcoming movie.

Goodyear’s article is more than about Avatar. It’s about Cameron and his moviemaking boldness and assertiveness that brings light to an artist’s desire to be the best he can be in film. 

The director of Aliens, Terminator and Terminator 2 and Titanic, he’s also a writer and producer.  “Maverick” best describes the filmmaker — place him next to Walt Disney, Stanley Kubrick or Charlie Chaplin — all visionaries of the future.

Click on Cameron and you’ll be at the article. Enjoy — it’s quite a read!

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Fantastic Fest saw more footage of Avatar and six high-resolution production photos became available at Spoilers TV-Movies.  

Of course, this photo is without special effects, but I thought you’d like to see how everyone looks when they are normal.  For more fantasy-science fiction photos click on Sigourney Weaver.

October issue of Empire features James Cameron’s 3D epic Avatar. Two more pictures from film are available online.  The first picture shows the movie’s villain, Stephen Lang’s tough-as-nails and literally battle-scarred Col. Miles Quaritch, piloting a human battleship known as the Dragon. The second picture shows Sigourney Weaver in her human guise as Dr. Grace Augustine, a human scientist who works with Sam Worthington’s Jake Sully on the alien planet of Pandora. If you’ve seen the trailer or the preview at IMAX theaters, you know this is probably one of the most anticipated films this year. I am sure we will hear more about Avatar before its December 18, 2009 release date.

Somewhere James Cameron is having a huge case of the giggles.

His upcoming movie, Avatar (not to be confused with the imminent fanboy destroyer from M. Night Shyamalan, The Last Airbender), was running a special tie-in by offering free tickets to an Imax showing of a fifteen minute sneak peek.  All you had to do was sign up online and you got a free ticket to the event, dubbed Avatar Day.

People signed up. In DROVES.  So much so, in fact, that they crashed the servers.

But all hope is not lost, folks–despite the positively monstrous outpouring of support for this one, there are still tickets available once they get the site operational again.  If you live somewhere near an Imax (sadly, I do not; the nearest one to me is about a hundred miles out) theatre, you can sign up at www.avatarmovie.com, and get yourself a free pass.  They’re working on rebuilding the site, so keep checking back to get your shot at that golden ticket.

Beauty is in the poster.  I really like this poster — Wow!  I want to go see the movie because I see fantasy, mystic and revenge.  The blue hues reminds me of Titanic, a very smart marketing ploy.  The poster is of Zoe Saldana as Neytiri.

The action story builds to nonstop in the latter portions of the film. The film is populated by strange life-forms in a world of unprecedentedly rich fantasy elements.  Sam Worthington,  plays an avatar — a remote-controlled character created by melding his crippled human form into a super-human being — whose fate lies ultimately in doing battle with his own former race.

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EW.com’s Avatar video interview with James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana is very enlightening and informative about how Cameron works with actors as a director.  You can see the respect Weaver has for Cameron. Saldana is still new to us, but she you can see her respect to these two movie icons.  If you don’t want to take the time to visit EW’s interview, take a look at LA Times interview with Weaver about Avatar. Weaver is so gracious and kind to her audience.