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James Cameron introduces new Alita: Battle Angel international trailer

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Following yesterday’s poster, a new Chinese trailer has arrived online for Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming adaptation Alita: Battle Angel which features an introduction from producer James Cameron; watch it here…SEE ALSO: James Cameron introduces Alita: Battle Angel’s ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ trailerVisionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in […]

James Cameron introduces Alita: Battle Angel’s ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ trailer

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20th Century Fox and Industry Trust have unveiled a ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ trailer for Alita: Battle Angel, which sees producer James Cameron telling us why we need to see the manga adaptation on the big screen; check it out here…Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine […]

Alita: Battle Angel gets a new international trailer

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Following the arrival of the first clip from Alita: Battle Angel, a new international trailer has been released for director Robert Rodriguez and producer James Cameron’s upcoming manga adaptation, which you can watch here…Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, […]

Junkie XL composing Alita: Battle Angel score

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Composer Tom Holkenborg, better known as Junkie XL, has revealed through Twitter he is composing the score for Alita: Battle Angel from director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City), producer James Cameron (Avatar) and 20th Century Fox. Friends, I’m excited to officially announce that I am finishing up the original score to the upcoming adventure film Alita: Battle […]

The titles for James Cameron’s four Avatar sequels may have leaked

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Despite being in production for over a year, we’ve seen and heard very little about James Cameron’s four Avatar sequels, with not so much as a single spy photo emerging from the New Zealand set of the sci-fi blockbusters.Avatar 2 (which is being shot back-to-back with Avatar 3) isn’t slated to arrive until December 2020, […]

Sigourney Weaver talks Neill Blomkamp’s abandoned Alien film

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Last week we had the rumour that the Alien franchise could be hatching on a streaming service sometime in the near future, which one again prompted discussion about Neill Blomkamp’s abandoned Alien 5 retcon movie, which was shelved when Ridley Scott took control of the xenomorph for the divisive Alien: Covenant.Now, hot on the heels of James […]

Robert Rodriguez talks Alita: Battle Angel and not wanting to let James Cameron down

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After deciding to focus all of his attention on Pandora with his four-planned Avatar sequels, James Cameron handed over directing duties on his long-planned adaptation of the manga Battle Angel Alita to Robert Rodriguez back in 2015.Rodriguez now deep in post-production on the movie – titled Alita: Battle Angel – ahead of its February 2019 release, […]

Alita: Battle Angel pushed back to 2019

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It looks like we’re going to have to wait a little longer to see producer James Cameron and director Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel, as 20th Century Fox has pushed back the release of the manga adaptation.Alita was originally set to open on July 20th of this year, before being pushed back to December 21st. […]

The era of big stars is over, so are we on the cusp of the era of directors?

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George Chrysostomou on whether we’re entering the era of the director…For many a year now, movies have been marketed and sold on the big name stars who appear in them. For a very long time, this method of selling a movie worked. There were periods of time that people would see Sylvester Stallone attached to […]