Avatar won the two most prestigious awards at the Golden Globe Awards ,Best motion picture – Drama, and best Directing – James Cameron.
The Golden globes are a strong indicator of where the Oscars will go, so it looks promising for the future as well.
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Avatar steams ahead at the Box Office. For the fifth straight weekend Avatar tops the Box Office in North America with $41.3million and has now amassed a total of $492 million in North America alone. Avatar is the first film since 1999’s The Six Sense to top the Box Office for five straight weeks.
It looks more and more certain that Avatar eventually will beat Titanic’s record of $600.8 millions at the North American Box Office. The current no.2, The Dark Knight, stands at $533.3 million and will probably be passed by Avatar next weekend.
| 1 | Avatar | Fox | $41,300,000 | $491,767,000 | |||||||
| 2 | The Book of Eli | WB | $31,615,000 | $31,615,000 | |||||||
| 3 | The Lovely Bones | P/DW | $17,060,000 | $17,527,000 | |||||||
| 4 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | Fox | $11,500,000 | $192,592,000 | |||||||
| 5 | Sherlock Holmes | WB | $9,825,000 | $180,018,000 |
The worldwide gross for Avatar now now stands at $1.602.2 BILLION. Titanic will sink (pun intended) to second place, it’s just a matter of time now.
| 1 | Titanic | $1,842.9 | ||||||
| 2 | Avatar | $1,602.2 | ||||||
| 3 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $1,119.1 | ||||||
| 4 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest | $1,066.2 | ||||||
| 5 | The Dark Knight | $1,001.9 | ||||||
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | $974.7 |
This is a great interview with James Cameron where we learn what it took to make Avatar into what it is. We get to see a lot of behind the scenes footage and know some cool facts.
Have a look at the embedded video below.
Fox have just released the “Original” Avatar script. I haven’t read it all yet but there seems to be a lot of omitted scenes and dialog in the script that didn’t make it in to the final movie.
It’s a great read if you like to get to know some of the characters at a deeper level than you get to know them in the movie. Should the movie have been longer?
Anyways, this is promising for the DVD/BluRay release that eventually will be released, probably some of the scenes omitted were shot but cut out in the editing room, hopefully (probably) they will be included in the future DVD/BluRay special edition.
So, click the download link below and please feel free to leave a comment on what you thought of it.
You can download and read the Avatar script here (PDF-document).
UPDATE: I’ve changed the picture that goes along with this post, as you can see it’s Jake in his wheelchair. The scene takes place in a bar on earth. That’s a scene that’s not in the movie, but you can find it on page 2 in the script (and the trailer, 7 seconds in).
INT. ROWDY BAR — NIGHT
Not the kind of place you’d bring your mom.
We find Jake near the pool table, BALANCING his chair, front wheels off the ground, while holding a tequila shot on his forehead. ONLOOKERS, including some other disabled vets, CLAP and WHOOP.Jake grabs the glass, SLAMS down the shot as they cheer.
A WALL-SIZED SCREEN filled with the World Cup game — men RUNNING on antelope legs.
CU JAKE, watching what he can’t have. Expression stony.
JAKE (V.O.)
Let’s get it straight up front. I don’t want your pity. I know the world’s a cold-ass bitch.
Great news for all Avatar fans, there will be a sequel to Avatar, probably it will even end up as a trilogy if Cameron gets he’s way.
This should not come as an surprise, Cameron has talked about his plans for sequels earlier, and now when Avatar has become the second most profitable movie of all time there is no question that the studio – Fox – would like to see more Avatar movies made.
Cameron said - “Yes, there’ll be another.” -but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he will direct it. Cameron has only directed two movies in a row for the same franchise once before – Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement day (Cameron’s Aliens was a sequel, but the first Alien movie was not directed by him, it was directed by Ridley Scott).
Cameron has other projects in the works as well, the question is if he will have the time to direct the Avatar sequels himself!
Don’t know if this is newsworthy, but I just saw a Variety Screening Series showing of Avatar at the Arclight theater in Hollywood tonight, followed with a Q&A with James Cameron and two of his visual effects artists. One of the artists mentioned that they’ll never again do this for the first time, meaning that everything they did in the making of Avatar was just a lot of instinctive grasping in the dark.
Cameron agreed with him. He also told him to expect the studio to want another one, as they’d passed the billion $ mark. A second film will be easier, as the technology now exists, thanks to the movie. The moderator asked if there *would* be an Avatar sequel. To which Cameron answered that the plan had always been to make a trilogy of films. Finally, Cameron actually said it: “Yes, there’ll be another.“
Source: AICN
Avatar continues to rule Box Office both in North America and worldwide. Early reports indicate that Avatar will top the US Box Office for the third straight weekend making $68.3 million, a record for a film in its third weekend of release.
Avatar has now made $352.1 million in North America. If you add the rest of the world gross of 666.7 million $476 million (before new years weekend) you get a total of $828 $1.018 billion. If the rest of the world gross continues to be strong we should expect a total of around $590 million after the new years weekend, that means a total of $941 million worldwide.
Avatar is making a lot of money in other words, lets compare it to the current worldwide record holders at the moment:
| 1 | Titanic | $1,842.9 | ||||||
| 2 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $1,119.1 | ||||||
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest | $1,066.2 | ||||||
| 4 | Avatar | $1,018.8 | ||||||
| 5 | The Dark Knight | $1,001.9 | ||||||
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | $974.7 | ||||||
| 7 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End | $961.0 | ||||||
| 8 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | $938.2 | ||||||
| 9 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | $929.4 | ||||||
| 10 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $925.3 |
Avatar is now at no. 4 should be no. 7 or 8 worldwide after the new years weekend, and Avatar has only been out for 17 days.
There is no question that Avatar will pass the $1 billion mark, only the fifth movie to do so in history. There is also by now little doubt that it will pass “Lord of the rings: Return of the King” that is currently at 2:nd place on the worldwide list. The only question really, is if Avatar could give another James Cameron movie a run for it’s money, Titanic.
James Cameron is soon to be the only director with two $1+ billion movies.
Loading ...Avatar crushed its rivals at the New Year holiday weekend box office in North America and was poised to challenge “The Dark Knight” as the second-biggest movie ever, according to data released on Sunday.
James Cameron’s 3-D sci-fi epic earned $68.3 million in the three days beginning Friday, setting a record for a film in its third weekend of release, distributor 20th Century Fox said. The old mark of $45 million was set by “Spider-Man” in 2002.
After 17 days in cinemas across the United States and Canada, “Avatar” has earned $352.1 million, placing it at No. 15 among all movies in terms of ticket sales. Fox, a unit of News Corp, forecast the film would end up in the $500 million range.
Cameron’s 1997 drama “Titanic,” the biggest film of all time before accounting for inflation, earned $601 million, followed by 2008’s “The Dark Knight” with $533 million. “Star Wars” currently holds the No. 3 berth with $461 million.
“This is like a freight train out of control,” said Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston. “It just keeps on going.”
Even “Titanic” could be threatened. When ticket-price inflation is included, that film had earned $241 million after 17 days, according to tracking firm Box Office Mojo.
Ource: Reuters
MTV and facebook held a 30 minutes interactive live interview with James Cameron, Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana last Thursday. Now you can relive it here on avatarplanet.net or over at MTV.com.
Moviegoers got a sneak peek at one of the year’s most anticipated films on Thursday, straight from legendary director Jim Cameron himself. Unsurprisingly, when the “Avatar” director held court for an exclusive MTV Q&A online, one of the most eye-opening questions came from a fan.
If you need a reason – or 5 reasons – here’s my 5 reasons why you should go see Avatar.
Whats’ your reason to see (or not to see), Avatar?
A great James Cameron interview from CNN.
CNN’s Jason Carroll interviews director James Cameron about his new film “Avatar.”
Three new Avatar photos from the official Avatar website. The first one is Jake Sully as an Avatar on Pandora, wearing some kind of headset. The second one is a beautiful landscape photo from Pandora, amazing detail. And the last one is from the set with James Cameron in center. Click the photos for HQ versions.
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