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It's been long enough since I last saw it that I'm actually excited to see it in 3D again. I've been avoiding 3D since Avatar came out since it's been one shitty conversion after another, and the prices were jacked up.

Its domestic take will clear $800m. :lol
 
demosthenes said:
8 minutes? Better be an awesome 8 minutes.
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The link I posted before listed the running time as 171 minutes, so like the Press Release said, Im guessing its between 8-9 minutes.

THe new footage is going to have new action scenes with new animals not seen in the theatrical cut, and more backstory

GhaleonEB said:
It's been long enough since I last saw it that I'm actually excited to see it in 3D again. I've been avoiding 3D since Avatar came out since it's been one shitty conversion after another, and the prices were jacked up.

Its domestic take will clear $800m. :lol
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With this and the Titanic re-release in 2012, hopefully it ensures continued Cameron dominance in the top 10 movie grosses of all time!
 
James Cameron is now $350 million richer:

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/exclusive-james-cameron-will-make-record-setting-350m-from-avatar/

I'm told this will be the biggest financial haul ever for a movie director from a single pic because James Cameron had a significant gross percentage of the Twentieth Century Fox megahit as helmer, writer, and producer. Though Hollywood pay experts tell me that the $350M all-in figure is largely attributable to his directing deal structured as "first dollar" gross or more likely "at cash break" gross. It's certainly bigger than either he or the studio -- or anyone -- thought he'd make from Avatar which, after its December 2009 release date, has grossed a best-ever $2.7 billion worldwide at the box office. "But Cameron is making $350 million because the DVD did beyond expectation," an insider tells me
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That's so much money.
Jesus.

He should just finance and distribute his next film all by himself.
 
If those 8 minutes were random scenes of Dances with Wolves, I would go see it.
 
Yeah I know. Fucking Cameron catering to the ADD audiences. I have a feeling that were it made today the Aliens DC would also cut Ripley's daughter from the film. :(

I never liked the reasons given for cutting the Earth scenes.
 
Scullibundo said:
Yeah I know. Fucking Cameron catering to the ADD audiences. I have a feeling that were it made today the Aliens DC would also cut Ripley's daughter from the film. :(

I never liked the reasons given for cutting the Earth scenes.
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Its ok

Heres another new animal instead

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Scullibundo said:
Stingbat? Or is that one of the flying dudes we first see as they fly over the waterfall?
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Stingbat, from the School.

The thing about the Earth Scene was that it was already pretty much finished. Cameron should at least make it an option to branch the movie with the earth scenes :(

At least they are adding character and background story details though.
 
So what is Cameron's reasoning for not showing future Earth? I don't get why you wouldn't want to show such a thing? Especially when it gives such major context toward the whole setting.
 
Combine said:
So what is Cameron's reasoning for not showing future Earth? I don't get why you wouldn't want to show such a thing? Especially when it gives such major context toward the whole setting.
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The reasoning he gave was that he simply didn't like the flow of the movie with the Earth prologue at the start, and that the movie essentially felt like it had 2 openings. It started and stopped, and started again.

The way it was originally edited (according to the script) was all Earth scenes in chronological order (about 4-5 minutes or so) and then the scene of Jake Sully's brother being incinerated (which is shown in the final movie) fading into him waking up in the cryo chamber (the shot right at the start of the final movie, after the flyover of Pandora)

Even though he cut it, the scene were supposedly at the very least 99% completed
 
Combine said:
So what is Cameron's reasoning for not showing future Earth? I don't get why you wouldn't want to show such a thing? Especially when it gives such major context toward the whole setting.
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Avatar 2 opening:

Intense urban combat. The state of Earth is absolutely devastationg. Various collection of shots.

We see human Jake in combat gear and covered in dirt.

1st person view: Sees dead people, people screaming and horrible warfare.

External: He rises up and charges only to be meet with a ear deafening blow.

Now we only see a grey horizon, a destroyed city.

We realize that we're actually looking through the hole in his guts as Jake falls back, paralyzed.

Camera focuses on his face, he passes out and eyes close. Sound fades out.

Breath is drawn, eyes on a blue face open.

1st person view: Beautiful alien skies above the treetops.

External: Neytiri lies sleeping next to him.
 
Wait - I'm out of the loop...is Avatar being re-released in theaters?

I never saw it in theaters, I watched the blu ray but I would love to see it especially since I've never seen a real 3D movie. I've seen that shitty valentines day horror film and journey to the center of the center, that's it.
 
Snuggler said:
Wait - I'm out of the loop...is Avatar being re-released in theaters?

I never saw it in theaters, I watched the blu ray but I would love to see it especially since I've never seen a real 3D movie. I've seen that shitty valentines day horror film and journey to the center of the center, that's it.
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Yep, being re-released in 3D only on August 27.

I can't wait...8 minutes is really a lot if you think about it.
 
Snuggler said:
Wait - I'm out of the loop...is Avatar being re-released in theaters?

I never saw it in theaters, I watched the blu ray but I would love to see it especially since I've never seen a real 3D movie. I've seen that shitty valentines day horror film and journey to the center of the center, that's it.
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Yeah, limited 3D re-release.
 
Rindain said:
Yep, being re-released in 3D only on August 27.

I can't wait...8 minutes is really a lot if you think about it.
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Not when you consider how much they filmed. I wanted the Quaritch rise to power subplot, with Selfridge trying to stop him from forming his own militia.
 
There were a bunch of other Busts and statues shown at Comic-Con as well. The busts actually glow like in the movie.

They completely fucked up the hairline on that statue though. Looks like a wig rather than natural hair.

Im still waiting for the Hot Toys announcement. The figures have been in the works since the beginning of the year, and they still havent been revealed yet. Insider says theyre looking pretty amazing though.
 
Yeah, the Sideshow exclusive one sold out, but the regular one is still available. Kinda pissed I missed out on the ex one. =/

Dead said:
Im still waiting for the Hot Toys announcement. The figures have been in the works since the beginning of the year, and they still havent been revealed yet. Insider says theyre looking pretty amazing though.
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If they can make their bioluminescent markings light up like Wesker's eyes, I'll be all over that.
 
Here's a pic from the Showfloor. It looks fantastic, aside from that hairline :\

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Heres the one they are doing with Stan Winstons Legacy studio. Its 2+ Feet tall

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Snaku said:
Looks way more alien than it should. Doesn't really look like Neytiri.
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Yeah, the model doesn't look very accurate, which doesn't make sense since the Na'vi designs were finished by Stan Winstons studio iirc. They should have all the necessary model details.

edit: heres one more. A bust shown at Comic-con

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If you want to see Cameron's view of Future Earth, see Terminator series :lol

That's Pandora, it's not a future Earth, they are only there to extract minerals, it's not for mass human colonization.
 
Medalion said:
If you want to see Cameron's view of Future Earth, see Terminator series :lol

That's Pandora, it's not a future Earth, they are only there to extract minerals, it's not for mass human colonization.
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There's a whole scene that takes place on Future Earth.

In fact, that pic above your post is on Future Earth.

There are exterior shots as well.
 
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1645323/20100806/story.jhtml

It's not enough that "Avatar" is now the biggest movie of all time, winning three Oscars and grossing unprecedented box-office dollars. To better serve the film-going public, the powers that be at Fox will be re-releasing the film in 3-D and 3-D IMAX on August 27. MTV News was lucky enough to steal a few moments of maestro James Cameron's time to talk about the reported "Avatar" novel and whether he'll shoot the proposed two sequels back-to-back.



"We're still working on deals [for 'Avatar 2']," Cameron told MTV News. "We don't start the movie until we get the deals worked out."

Fair enough. But what about the rumored sequel "scriptment"? "I'm making notes. I'm not sitting idle," Cameron said. "But really, what I'm working on primarily is the novel. I never had a chance to get the novel done while we were making the movie, and I always intended to. I didn't want to do a cheesy novelization, where some hack comes in and kind of makes sh-- up. I wanted to do something that was a legitimate novel that was inside the characters' heads and didn't have the wrong culture stuff, the wrong language stuff, all that."

Cameron went on to say that the novel will serve as a "bible" for other writers to come in and riff on for their own "Avatar"-based stories.

"I don't mind opening the universe, but I just don't want that to happen until I've got more meat on the bones," he said, adding that he'd like to fill in some of the specific details about the company, what's happening on Earth and Grace and Jake's backstories. "That all needs to be filled in before other writers can come in and run with it."

Regarding his plans and discussions about two proposed sequels, we asked if he'll shoot them back-to-back. "We're actually talking about that. That's not a decision yet," Cameron revealed. "That is something that makes a lot of sense, given the nature of these productions, because we can bank all the [motion] capture and then go back and do cameras over a period of time."

He added that the nature of their filmmaking process lends itself more naturally to a back-to-back shooting schedule, versus that of other live-action productions.

"The way these back-to-back productions fall apart is that you're trying to do two live-action films back to back, and you're working on it for a year and a half, shooting. Everyone is dead. It's not humanly possible," Cameron said of live-action shoots. "This type of film, it absolutely would work."
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Sigh. Battle Angel :(.

Also, I don't like the idea of back to back sequels unless they're self-contained stories like he originally planned. Cliff-hanger sequels of the PoC or Reloaded Variety are ultimately unsatisfying. Knowing that Cameron addressed this issue in one of his interviews is comforting, but I'd still rather one movie at a time, if only for the chance to shoot something different in between.
 
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