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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.

I don’t want to push any buttons or create any waves with 20th Century, so I just offer the link to AICN where you can see a fuzzy, pirate peek at the latest Avatar trailer.  I enjoyed it and was happy to see all the actors involved with the movie – particularly Giovanni Ribisi with Sigourney Weaver.  I don’t think James Cameron is going to let us down.  I am making babysitting arrangements for opening day — December 18, 2009. 

I feel a sequel in the works.

I don’t know how long the trailer will be up — it’s already been taken down at YouTube.  You better go see it, now, or wait for the super-clean, crisp copy on October 29, 2009 when it hits the Internet.

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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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.

With all the hype and craziness from Europe to Comic-Con 2009, including free movie tickets to view 20 minutes of Avatar tomorrow in a hundred plus IMAX movie theatres, Cameron’s artistic achievement is worth the all the 3D movies we’ve ever seen so far.  Avatar’s teaser trailer is spectacular to the 10th power.  I now wish I had bothered trying to get free movie tickets to see the preview screening tomorrow night. 

I viewed this trailer several times to see the uniqueness and artistic achievement Cameron has created. He is a true formalist of cinema.  The look of this trailer is extraordinary. Sam Worthington’s character takes us on a journey of renewed awakening. What a brilliant approach to draw the audience into this magical world. You might think that I am overly excited, yes, and true I haven’t heard any dialogue or know of the complete story.  For all I know, the story could be all too typical with dazzling, state of the art 3D cinema. But, Cameron knows better than that, with his track record, he’ll give us a story worth watching to match the magical technology he’s invented.

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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If anyone is aware of Kathy Bigelow’s former relation to James Cameron, then this SDCC clip of Cameron praising The Hurt Locker (2008 Venice Film Festival SIGNIS Grand Prize) as the Platoon of the Iraq generation should prove interesting as he explains that they enjoy a professional friendship.

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This is just too good not to share, and I’d like to thank Latino Review for this clip — it’s priceless. James Cameron responds to a panel question on whether or not he is still interested in adapting the manga Battle Angel Alita into a film.  Cameron said that while it was something they were “looking at very seriously” it was still a long way off in his thoughts.  You should hear it in is own words as he parallels such a question to asking a woman if she wants to have more children while she’s crowning.