Archive for the ‘Avatar’ Category
| “Avatar” Nominated for Academy Award! | February 2nd, 2010 |
“Avatar” has been nominated for BEST PICTURE at the 2010 Academy Awards! James Cameron, the director of “Avatar” has also been nominated for BEST DIRECTOR!
BEST PICTURE
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
BEST DIRECTOR
James Cameron – Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels – Precious
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Congratulations to the cast and crew of “Avatar” for this amazing achievement! 
| “Avatar” nominated for 8 BAFTA Awards | January 22nd, 2010 |
“Avatar” has been nominated for 8 BAFTA awards – including best film! “Star Trek” was also nominated for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects…
Best film
Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Precious
Up in the Air
Director
James Cameron (Avatar)
Neill Blomkamp (District 9)
Lone Scherfig (An Education)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Music
Avatar (James Horner)
Crazy Heart (T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Chaz Jankel)
Up (Michael Giacchino)
Cinematography
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Road
Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Up in the Air
Production design
Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Inglourious Basterds
Sound
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Up
Special visual effects
Avatar
District 9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
| “Avatar” Now #2 Movie of All Time | January 8th, 2010 |
Looks like James Cameron is the King of Middle Earth, too.
With $1.14 billion worldwide and counting, Avatar has now overtaken the $1.1 billion raked in by 2003′s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to become the second-highest-grossing film in history.
In fact, Avatar is going so strong that what once seemed an out-of-this-world impossibility now seems within the realm of (virtual) reality. If the 20th Century Fox movie, which screens in both 2-D and 3-D formats, keeps up its current pace, it could catch the $1.8 billion in global ticket sales tallied by the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s own Titanic.
It that wasn’t enough (and it never is in Tinseltown), Fox’s FX cable network has reportedly paid upward of $25 million for the TV rights to Avatar, which will premiere in 2012.
And that makes Cameron’s blue folk even more green.
From E! Online
| Is ‘Avatar’ Star Zoe Saldana The New Kate Winslet? | January 8th, 2010 |
These days, the one word on every moviegoer’s lips is “Avatar.” With the box-office receipts soaring, the love story and special effects fueling repeat views, and Oscar-buzz building, it’s unlike anything we’ve seen since … well, the last James Cameron feature film, 1997′s “Titanic.”
In the 12 years following that movie’s release, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have made good on their promise, racking up instant classics and awards nods with equal aplomb. On Monday, we took a hard look at whether “Avatar” star Sam Worthington could use his momentum to launch a Leo-like career. Now, it’s time to compare Cameron’s leading ladies and look at why Zoe Saldana could become the next Winslet — or why such comparisons could leave the actress feeling as blue as her “Avatar” character.
| Zoe Saldana’s alien talks! | January 8th, 2010 |
The Avatar actress admits to talking the alien Na’vi language with her family. Talk about the character getting into your skin!
Sultry actress Zoe Saldana recently admitted that she would start talking in alien language over the dinner table while working on Avatar.
The actress who plays a blue alien in the animated blockbuster, said she was so accustomed to the fictional Na’vi dialect used in the film that her family thought she was going bananas.
“The language was made up and we all had to learn it. I was worried at the beginning because I’m not good with languages, but it was tons of fun. My mum would look at me like I was crazy because I’d be at the dinner table slipping a little Na’vi into the conversation. It turned out to be easier because I speak Spanish and the sounds are very similar. The crew learned a little Na’vi, too. They picked up ‘skowng’, which means moron. Needless to say, everyone had a little fun with that one,” said the 31-year-old star.
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