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Avatar, Hurt Locker Nab 9 Oscar Noms Each

Nine nominations each for Cameron, Bigelow films

(Newser) - The science-fiction sensation Avatar and the war-on-terror thriller The Hurt Locker lead the Academy Awards with nine nominations each, including best picture and director for James Cameron and ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow. Also nominated for best-picture: District 9; the animated comedy Up; the World War II saga Inglourious Basterds; the football...

Thank Inflation for Avatar 's Box Office Record
 Thank Inflation for 
 Avatar's Box Office Record 
burning questions
Jan 25, 2010 3:59 PM CST

Thank Inflation for Avatar's Box Office Record

Gone with the Wind may trump Cameron's epic

(Newser) - Avatar will soon gross $1.85 billion worldwide, but becoming the box office champ doesn't mean it's the most successful movie of all time. Remember, a ticket to Gone with the Wind cost an average of only 23¢—45 times less than an Avatar ticket. This list ranks films...

Avatar Flies to Blockbuster Record

International sales have already blown Titanic out of water

(Newser) - Avatar is on course to sink the Titanic as the biggest global movie blockbuster in history. The world-wide $1.8 billion take for the 3-D saga is just $2 million shy of the total grabbed in 1997 by Titanic, which was also directed by James Cameron. International sales have already...

Avatar Speaks to Our Inner Science Geek
 Avatar Speaks to 
 Our Inner Science Geek 
OPINION
Jan 19, 2010 1:39 PM CST

Avatar Speaks to Our Inner Science Geek

Flick appeals to humans' natural wonder at the weird world

(Newser) - Excuse Carol Kaesuk Yoon if she seems “a bit breathless,” but Avatar has reinvigorated the biologist’s awe of the natural world, and she suspects that effect is what’s really driving the flick’s blockbuster success. People love to puzzle over nature, and try to order it...

Avatar Passes Star Wars as No. 3 Moneymaker
 Avatar Passes Star Wars 
 as No. 3 Moneymaker 
$492M DOMESTICALLY
Jan 17, 2010 1:15 PM CST

Avatar Passes Star Wars as No. 3 Moneymaker

Next up, Dark Knight, then Cameron's own Titanic

(Newser) - James Cameron's Avatar had a $41.3 million weekend to shoot past Star Wars as the No. 3 movie on the all-time domestic box office charts. Next stop, The Dark Knight, then Cameron's own Titanic. No. 1 for the fifth-straight weekend, Cameron's sci-fi saga raised its domestic total to $491....

Spider-Man 4 Off Because Director Saw Avatar

Director pushed for special effects studio wouldn't pay for

(Newser) - The problems with the Spider-Man 4 script were genuine, but the real reason the flick got the ax is that the director saw Avatar. Sam Raimi became infatuated with the advanced computer graphics in the James Cameron blockbuster and wanted to take advantage of them, insiders tell New York . Sony...

Russians Claim Avatar Rips Off Soviet Sci-Fi

Critics say Cameron owes a debt to the Strugatsky brothers

(Newser) - Avatar has prompted cries of plagiarism from Russians who say similarities between the 3D blockbuster and the Soviet-era works of the Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are more than just coincidence. James Cameron's movie and the Strugatsky brothers' World of Noon cycle of sci-fi novels both take place in the 22nd...

Steamy Tendril Sex Snipped From Avatar

Blue scenes cut to avoid R rating

(Newser) - Steamy tendril sex (if you go in for that kind of thing) was cut from mega-blockbuster Avatar because director James Cameron wanted to avoid an "R" rating. In the cut "blue" scene Jake and Neytiri join their ponytails together with "trembling anticipation" and the inner tendrils intertwine...

Critics Slam 'White Messiah' Avatar as Racist

Director accused of perpetuating colonial stereotypes

(Newser) - Avatar employs cutting-edge technology but its storyline is outdated and racist, say critics outraged on behalf of the movie's fictional race of blue-skinned aliens. By having a white American rescue the race, it perpetrates the "white Messiah" myth and suggests non-whites can't help themselves, say critics, including David Brooks...

'Avatards' Go Blue, Bonkers
 'Avatards' Go Blue, Bonkers 
Jan 11, 2010 6:37 AM CST

'Avatards' Go Blue, Bonkers

Avatar fans in throes of nostalgie de la blue

(Newser) - Get ready for the blue people. Fans are so enamored of the back-to-the-earth Tarzans-on-growth-hormone Na'vi people of Avatar that they want to join the tribe. The chock-a-block-buster film, that has now raked in an astonishing $1.30 billion, is drawing repeat customers who yearn to join their fantasy world and...

Directors Who Should Go Sci-Fi
 Directors Who Should Go Sci-Fi 
CAMERON'S COOL, BUT ...
Jan 10, 2010 2:05 PM CST

Directors Who Should Go Sci-Fi

Coen brothers, Scorsese, Tarantino could give Cameron a run

(Newser) - With Avatar whipping up Oscar buzz for James Cameron, io9 nominates five great directors who could make magic with the “wondrous freedoms” available in the science-fiction genre:
  • Paul Greengrass: The man behind The Bourne Ultimatum thrives on a “mixture of chaos and intimacy”—perfect to document the
...

5 Reasons Avatar Is a Mega-Hit
 5 Reasons Avatar Is a Mega-Hit 
Jan 6, 2010 5:21 PM CST

5 Reasons Avatar Is a Mega-Hit

Escapism, corporate tie-ins, and savvy marketing all help

(Newser) - James Cameron's Avatar is inventive and smart, but it's become such a huge success so quickly that one has to wonder if some larger cultural factors aren't at work. Here are five theories from io9 :
  1. Escapism. The Great Recession fills our lives with endless drudgery, and this film is the
...

Right-Wingers Go Ballistic Over Avatar

 Right-Wingers 
 Go Ballistic 
 Over Avatar  
SCREEN SCREEDS
Jan 5, 2010 7:55 AM CST

Right-Wingers Go Ballistic Over Avatar

Anti-military sci-fi 'hippies' giving conservatives fits

(Newser) - Here's one more thing that's sure to rocket hyper-popular Avatar to even greater heights: right-wingers hate it. America's "prickly cadre of political conservatives" can't stand its eco message, negative portrayal of vicious military contractors and its "can't-we-all-get along counterculture vibe," writes Patrick Goldstein in the Los Angeles ...

Avatar Rakes In $1B
 Avatar Rakes In $1B 
Jan 4, 2010 4:43 AM CST

Avatar Rakes In $1B

Cutting-edge film passes milestone in 17 days

(Newser) - Cutting-edge techie-dream movie Avatar has netted $1 billion in ticket sales in record time as holiday film goers spent another weekend packing theaters. Avatar raked in $63.8 million over the New Year's weekend to boost it over the billion-dollar milestone in just 17 days. Sherlock Holmes, Alvin and the ...

Why Avatar Still Won't Win Best Picture
 Why Avatar 
 Still Won't 
 Win Best Picture 
NOT KING OF THE WORLD
Dec 29, 2009 9:33 AM CST

Why Avatar Still Won't Win Best Picture

Sorry, James Cameron: Sci-fi, computerized actors will scare Academy

(Newser) - OK, so Avatar scored soaring reviews and scads of money, blah, blah, blah: That still doesn’t mean James Cameron is going to win another Oscar for best picture. Lane Brown details five reasons why not in New York :
  • Special effects: As in, the special effects are the only rave-worthy
...

Avatar Success Sparks 3D Rush in Tinseltown

Industry abuzz with talk of rejiggering movies new and old

(Newser) - The unexpected-by-some success of Avatar’s 3D iteration has sparked a flurry in Hollywood, with big names screaming for the chance to make their audiences wear funny glasses. Sharon Waxman has it on good authority that Ridley Scott wants his upcoming Robin Hood flick released in 3D, and that the...

Avatar Wraps Weekend With $73M
 Avatar Wraps 
 Weekend 
 With $73M 


bOX OFFICE ROuNDUP
Dec 20, 2009 1:41 PM CST

Avatar Wraps Weekend With $73M

James Cameron scores 2nd-biggest Dec. opening ever

(Newser) - Avatar plowed through an East Coast blizzard to score $73 million at the box office this weekend, falling short of only I Am Legend for a December opening, reports Variety . The James Cameron blockbuster recouped its hefty $220 million pricetag with worldwide sales. The Princess and the Frog fell to...

Avatar Pulls In $27M
 Avatar Pulls In  
 $27M 
Dec 19, 2009 3:57 PM CST

Avatar Pulls In $27M

Numbers are strong, but not record-setting

(Newser) - James Cameron's Avatar grossed $27 million in its opening day yesterday. The numbers for the 3-D epic are strong but unspectacular and may have been dinged by the East Coast blizzard. The storm will likely eat into overall weekend figures as well, but Cameron should take solace in the news...

18 Other Slowpoke Directors
18 Other Slowpoke Directors
IT'S NOT JUST JAMES CAMERON
Dec 18, 2009 12:45 PM CST

18 Other Slowpoke Directors

James Cameron's 12-year hiatus before Avatar isn't the first

(Newser) - James Cameron went 12 years between feature films—and other directors have gone even longer, for reasons ranging from hubris to legal problems to, say, Nazi oppression. Slate looks at 18 other filmmakers who took their sweet time:
  • Sylvester Stallone, 21-year gap: Between helming Rocky IV and Rocky Balboa, Stallon
...

Avatar Amazes and Awes
 Avatar Amazes and Awes 
MOVIE REVIEWs
Dec 18, 2009 7:09 AM CST

Avatar Amazes and Awes

Cameron's comeback 'the most vivid fantasy world seen on screen'

(Newser) - James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar has been hailed as the future of filmmaking and the stunning fantasy world he has created more than lives up to the hype, say impressed critics.
  • "Avatar delivers," writes Steven Rea at the Philadelphia Inquirer . "Combining beyond-state-of-the-art moviemaking with a tried-and-true storyline
...

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