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Avatar: The Most Successful Movie with Zero Cultural Impact

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Anghus Houvouras on James Cameron’s Avatar and its total lack of cultural impact… We’re living in an age of entertainment extremism, where passionate fans go to ludicrous lengths to engage in hyperbolic talking points about their favorite film or franchise. It can be exhausting, wading through social media and hearing people make bold declarations not […]

Avatar: The Way of Water tracking $525 million worldwide opening weekend

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13 years in the making, and with hundreds of millions of dollars ploughed not only into the production but also the actual development of much of the technology used to bring it to life, James Cameron has claimed that Avatar: The Way of Water will need to become “the third or fourth highest-grossing film in […]

Video Review – Avatar: The Way of Water is a beautiful mess

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Avatar: The Way of Water… James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water is the film version of that beautiful person with no personality. Avatar 2 tries to say and do a lot but comes off as a striking shell for a lackluster core. The spectacle is there, and […]

James Cameron laughs off VFX comparisons between Avatar and Marvel: “It’s not even close”

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If James Cameron is going to do one thing, it’s praise his Avatar movies while shading other films – especially the work of Marvel and other superhero brands. During a recent interview ahead of this month’s Avatar: The Way of Water release, the conversation about visual effects came into play, and the legendary filmmaker took […]

First reactions to Avatar: The Way of Water call it “mind-blowing” and “a sincere, stunning epic”

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“Never bet against James Cameron”. That’s just one of the reactions to the director’s thirteen years in the making sequel Avatar: The Way of Water, which held its world premiere on the blue carpet in London last night, and triggered a tsunami of overwhelmingly positive reactions from audiences around the world.  You can check out a […]

Zoe Saldaña says years in franchise films has made her feel “artistically stuck”

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Zoe Saldaña has quite the impressive resume. Just in the last decade or so, she’s appeared in Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy (as well as multiple Avengers movies), and Star Trek. It’s fair to say that working on projects like that, sometimes back-to-back, can become draining. In a new interview, Zoe Saldaña says it has […]

Avatar: The Way of Water IMAX featurette invites us to experience Pandora in a whole new light

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A new featurette has been released for Avatar: The Way of Water, which sees producer Jon Landau, joined by cast members Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, and Stephen Lang as they discuss the world of Pandora and what to expect from the long-awaited blockbuster sequel. Set more than a decade after the events of […]

Captain Marvel concept art, Deathstroke not in Batman anymore, Wonder Woman Oscar campaign and more – Weekend News Roundup

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SUPER SKRULL After last week’s reveal that Captain Marvel would take place in the 1990s and feature classic Marvel villains the Skrulls, illustrator Jerad S.Marantz has taken to Instagram to reveal official concept art for them. Interestingly, in his caption Marantz includes the hashtag #SuperSkrulls, making reference to Super-Skrull, a character possessing the combined abilities of […]

A Beginner’s Guide To James Cameron

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In our latest beginner’s guide, Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of James Cameron…. Like many of the top directors, it didn’t happen overnight for James Cameron, now dubbed The King of the World (possibly by himself?). He worked in visual effects, and as an assistant director before getting his break in B pictures. It […]

Could the Avatar sequels break the wrong kind of box office record?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at Avatar 2 and a distinct lack of excitement to return to James Cameron’s world… You remember that film with blue characters in it? No, not The Smurfs… Avatar. In 2009 it was the groundbreaking, visually dazzling CGI world which James Cameron created, whilst simultaneously revolutionising 3D technology (and beginning a five year […]