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The Greatest Director of All Time?

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Tom Jolliffe ponders the question: who is the greatest director of all time?One of the toughest of tough film related questions. Who is the greatest director ever? Think over all the icons throughout history. There have been countless, many who crossed from silent to sound, such as Fritz Lang, Carl Theodore Dreyer, D.W Griffith and […]

Avatar: The Way of Water tracking $150 million to $175 million box office opening

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James Cameron has been voicing his concerns about how Avatar: The Way of Water would have to match its predecessor’s record-breaking gross in order to break even at the box office, and how he might have to cap the franchise as a trilogy should it underperform, but the usually bullish director might be heartened to […]

James Cameron says Avatar: The Way of Water needs to make billions just to break even

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If you’re a betting man, the chances of Avatar: The Way of Water becoming a $2 billion film seem complicated. With the pandemic and the hit/miss reaction to 2009 original, Avatar 2 and its journey at the box office has everyone on the edge of their seat.No one is more curious and critical of Avatar: […]

Avatar: The Way of Water promises the motion picture event of a generation in spectacular final trailer

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James Cameron doesn’t do understatement, and so the final rallying cry trailer for his return to Pandora promises that Avatar: The Way of Water will be the motion picture event of a generation. Picking up ten years after the events of the biggest film of all time, the fantasy sequel centres on Jake (Sam Worthington), Neytiri […]

Avatar: The Way of Water gets a batch of character posters

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With tickets now on sale for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, 20th Century Studios has unveiled a batch of character posters for the blockbuster sequel featuring Jake Sully, Neytiri, and their Na’vi clan; check them out here…Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, “Avatar: The Way of Water” […]

Avatar: The Way of Water IMAX poster released as tickets go on sale

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With our return to Pandora drawing ever closer, a new poster for Avatar: The Way of Water has arrived online encouraging you to experience James Cameron’s long-awaited sci-fi sequel in glorious IMAX 3D, for which tickets are now on sale. Take a look at the poster below, along with a newly-released Dolby Cinema poster…SEE ALSO: […]

Great Directors and Their Forgotten Gems

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the forgotten gems that most great directors have…If you think of many great directors you cast your mind to their career highlights. Those iconic films. Many of these directors become largely defined by one or two films in particular (sometimes more). Additionally occasionally you might also remember those films that become […]

How to Refurbish the Terminator Franchise

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Tom Jolliffe offers his thoughts on the direction to take the Terminator franchise…Terminator 2: Judgment Day is 30 this year. It’s also fair to say it’s the last film in the franchise that proved unquestionably successful. It was a massive box office hit, launching James Cameron to gargantuan levels of production. At the time T2 […]

James Cameron says Avatar might remain a trilogy if The Way of Water is not profitable

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James Cameron has compared writing his Avatar sequels to creating The Lord of the Rings, revealed that he might not direct all five trips to Pandora because it’s “all-consuming”, and found a bit of time to admonish the Marvel and DC cinematic universes, but the latest soundbite from the legendary director finds him on the […]

The Last Champions of Practical Work Over CGI

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Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s last stalwarts of practical work over CGI in movies… What does the future hold?Technology is wonderful. Constant evolution brings with it new trends. In cinema, the computer generated image has developed exponentially in the past 30 years. From being something of an eye-catching new toy initially (or garish, nightmarishly bad […]