You forgot the wikia:
http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Wiki

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/02/james-cameron-on-avatar-its-my-most-personal-film-.html

More on Tsu'tey's last shadow. Be ready to baw.

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1631859/story.jhtml

JC writing a prequel novel. I still don't think he should abandon the video game front, but it is proving to be a lost endeavor...

>>7771

Dat pun is terrible.

Nice docs, though.

>>7774

>JC writing a prequel novel. I still don't think he should abandon the video game front, but it is proving to be a lost endeavor...

The game was severely flawed.

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47vlm603QM

Oh, god... Stan ;_;

>>7775

I think the games were such...not good because of how distant Cameron was during its development. The Ubisoft crew basically followed him around on set and made the game based on what they observed, getting very little actual feedback from Cameron (I think he only did one interview with them?). He could do for video games what he just did for films if he kept at it, but at the same time, he's doing at least three films, two documentaries, and now writing a novel. So yeah.

Also, I'm curious about Jake's future now after remembering that the body he now inhabits still isn't technically his own - it's his brother's DNA mixed with that of a native. Ghosts in the shell possibly?

>>7777
I think its kinda weird that no one talks about the DS's game story. Sure it looks "kiddy" and the game is broken! But it is the only (as far as I know) game were you play as a na'vi not a human/avatar! Thats something...

>>7777

connection starts to break down since it really wasn't built for long term usage hence the needing to leave Pandora

>>7777

I doubt anything would happen.

>>7778

Judging from video, its more "video game-animu" than just "kiddy".

>>7781
Is that not what kiddy is these days? Also did you see at the end when he failed to do the swipe move? Hahaha! So broken...

The games were bad. Period.

>>7782
It's the other way around.

>>7778
The presentation of the DS story was cheesy.

  >>7785

Just for sure: the video of DS game:

>>7797
Bean?

... are they holding hands?

I got an idea to kip-bash this guy in to a Hammerhead Titanothere mutant!
But then I remmber that I:
1. Dont wont to ruin my Jab figur
2. Cant kip-bash...
Aw well... No big lose!

>>7771

This dude had nailed proportions well.

  wat

>>7805

Someone is joking.

Pic: Neytiri in cross-eyed 3D.

Done! Its not a ripoff but if you like sci-fi you shoude hear it! ITS GOOD!
http://www.berfrois.com/media.html#callmejoe

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/02/17/james-cameron-says-avatar-will-have-a-3-d-blu-ray-release-this-year/

>confirmed Blu-Ray 3D

>>7818

dont has blu-ray :(

>>7818

>Cameron said he hopes to do a sequel to “Avatar” but he wants to do it “cheaper and faster.”

I have some bad feelings about it...

>>7820

You'll need some special LCD glasses and compatible player (PS3)

>>7822

>cheaper and faster

I think that just means the technology is already developed, so they won't have to wait 14 years and spend $300million for sequels.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/02/avatar-stirs-an-animated-debate-in-hollywood.html

>Spielberg using James Cameron's technology on Tintin

>>7825

Fuck yeah, Tintin!

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/2010/january/avatar.html

>>7827
Wait... Life size?

>When Mr. Timothy Huxton* opened his son Timmy Jr's bedroom door, he was shocked to see his little boy's innocent white hiney nestled into the 9ft Na'vi doll he bought himself for his son's birthday.

NINE FEET TALL?! JESUS CHRIST!

>>7827
Well, the site itself is obviously fake, so the story probably is as well.

>>7831
Yes, but the Logistics of it shocked me.

>>7771

>>7771

>>7771

>>7834
>>7835
>>7836

http://vladcorail.deviantart.com/

>>7837

that is why they were so angry

>>7827
You should have posted it in /n/ - news and had them trolled.

>>7827
That site is a joke site bro.

>>7827

Laughed my ass off.

>>7834>>7835>>7836>>7837

Gotta love Pandora.

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10866#

Cameron answers major criticisms.

>>7818

http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEkBVlpqCu3Nnt

Fox says Blu-Ray 3D won't be coming in November...

>>7843
Eh, I still think the story and characterization where kinda weak.

>>7867

which is why I am fine only seeing it once. I mean it was pretty...very pretty but it diddn't feel...full I guess. I think if more of the earth city stuff had been left in then I could have felt more in depth with it.

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2010/02/gold-derby-nuggets-avatar-.html

(e)motion/performance capture - acting or not?

What say you, /tv/?

>>7876

hmmmm that is a good question...only if the Animators are included

Finally went and saw it! It was "epic" but not as "instressing" as District 9.
Still an awesome must see moive even without 3-D! (stupid local cinama without cool shit)
Also fav line in the movie:
Grace at the hometree meeting: Oh shit!

>>7901

>(stupid local cinama without cool shit)

I feel your pain.

>3-D
>cool
It's a shitty gimmick. Nothing more.

>>7906

So is color.

And sound.

And...and...

>>7912
Except they didn't die out like 3-D did.

>>7912

and all it takes is another Jaws 3D to kill it back to dead

Picture Neytiri's lifeless, broken, bloody body being cradled in Jakes arms, warm wet tears dripping from his face onto hers, while they are under the remnants of the tree of souls.

How does this make you feel?

>>7925
Aw... how sad...
...
So whos up round of ctf or something?

Also this: Cool mech with stupid weakpoint!
Makes a toy! Or so I heard...
Hope they fix that in A2.

>>7916>>7917

And?

>>7925

Feels bad.

>>7925
I too have some "sad end" ideas sprowting up, grown from the technicall questions about the avatar body.
Were they built to last a full na'vi life time?!

>>7935

>stupid weakpoint

It's important to note that the exosuits weren't built with combat as a priority.

  >>7944
No wounder they suck at it then!
Next to most other mechs that is...
So a I said, hope for upgrades!
Also I forgot too add great to the toy comment... AH WELL!

  >>7945
Might as well post part 2 ...

Uh, you do know there's an Avatar board, right?

>>7976

http://showbiz411.blogs.thr.com/2009/12/01/box-office-betting-cantor-index/

http://www.cantorexchange.com/About-CX/It-Pays-to-Practice.aspx

ohhhh think how much one could have made off Avatar. Especially at the peak when people were worried about it flopping (short time span but that is the nature of futures)

  2010年2月18日LA:
映画「アバター2」の存在を明らかに話すジェームズ・キャメロン監督の、Beyond Words 2010という映画祭での独占映像です！

>>7771

I think that Avatar is an biopunk movie.

tsaheylu = cyberjacks

The prequel I want is the story how the fifth Toruk Makto came to be.
What is it you want to see?

>>8007

-First contact Na'vis with humans or their space probes etc.

-Incident in dr Grace's school.

"It all had began during The Long Night, with dim light on the sky..."

>The Long Night - period when Pandora is within Polyphem's shadow
>dim light - decelerating interstellar spaceship

>>8011

PROBE LAUNCHED!!!! PUTHEWWWW!!!!! BOOM!!!!

>>8012
>point of intresst found

>>8012

*Chiching*

2000 Unobtanium

>>8014
>Do the words "Political Shitstorm" mean anything to you?
Side quest unlocked!

>>8013

From what game it is?

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/195724.asp

>>8019

Idea is Mass Effect 2. Don't know if we kill anyone probing

>>8042
Satanism is just a religion of selfishness.
If anything the film should just be considered pagan based.

>>8045

Druidism or is that too specific?

I want to see Avatar again in IMAX 3D.

thankfully, this 2nd viewing did not induce any more post-avatar depression

Is there actually a standard for calling a movie IMAX? I was not impressed by the one I went to see compared to digital 3D in the same cinema.

>>8046
It works well enough.

>>8080

The most funny thing is, that this movie is overtly agnostic. Eyva is just a sentient biological supercomputer, not goddamn God.

Also: check this out: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/electric-ocean-bacteria/

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/02/sigourney_weaver_says_shes_com.html

GRACE FUCKING CONFIRMED FOR SEQUEL

Hmm... Makes secnes, but I dont comeplity agree.
http://tersesystems.com/post/980008.jhtml

>>8179

>tl;dr - Eywa is God's sister

That sounds fucking awesome!

>>8179

Another pick:

Na'vi and Pandora had been created by ancient race that had simply given up technology, and created "paradise" in order to "return to the nature".

>>8186
Like I said! Protoculture/Xel'naga. But I see it more like they only made Eywa and then she did the rest on her own after they left. They may have made/worked on the na'vi as well to work as gurdiens or something.

Also NERD ALERT http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43440
But I read it so how is the bigger geek.

>>7771

  Why have I not seen this here yet?

>>8221
I'd hit it!

>>8244

Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

>>8245
*broclaw*

The oscars are this weekend. How many will Avatar win?

>>8255

Nominated for nine, doubt it'll be a sweep. Whether it gets best picture or not, shitstorm will follow.

Not sure if this was posted already, or is old news.
http://chud.com/articles/articles/21969/1/PROJECT-880-THE-AVATAR-THAT-ALMOST-WAS/Page1.html
I think it sounds way cooler than the movie version of the story, it feels more human and less hollywood cliche.

>>8260

Indeed, but when Hollywood executives hear the phrase "innovative story" more times than not they run screaming from the room.

>>8260

Dude, do you really want to see "Avatar', where Josh/Jake Sully is teaching Na'vi kids to play baseball, and overall story is more pretentious...?

But still, it contains some cool ideas.

See by yourself: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/14294813/Avatar-Scriptment-by--James-Cameron%29

>>7837

>>8265
I liked that in the original script the floating mountains weren't just eye candy. Josh's success seemed based on more than just fate.

>>8267

I liked how Na'vi had used flying medusas and pheromones against humans.

On the other hand, final showdown with Quatrich was better in final movie.

>>8267

I don't think the Hallelujah Mountains weren't just eye candy in the movie...

>>8272

>I don't think the Hallelujah Mountains WERE just eye candy in the movie...

>>8270
>On the other hand, final showdown with Quatrich was better in final movie.
Agreed! Run in to some viperwolfs as you flee like a bitch is not so macho is it...
>>8265
Yes and No!

>>8275

When he goes on clearance I will get him

>>8259
>>8255
If it does sweep, I hope he'll say "I'm king of the world" in Na'vi.

James Cameron (right) with his VES Lifetime Achievement Award, alongside Bill Paxton, who appeared in Cameron's Aliens
Sort of. Director James Cameron says it makes no sense to call the follow-up to his megahit 3-D sci-fi movie Avatar 2 and offers up a few details about what he wants for the sequel. (Spoilers ahead!)

Not only would Avatar 2 be an unoriginal name, it wouldn't actually fit: The original movie ended with Jake (Sam Worthington) becoming an actual Na'vi, so he's no longer an avatar.

"Certainly I don't want to call it Avatar 2," Cameron said at the Visual Effects Society Awards ceremony in Century City, Calif., on Sunday, where he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. "He's not an avatar anymore, is he? Maybe we'll call it Na'vi."

As for the story, a second Avatar film would emphasize the spiritual aspect of the Na'vi even further than the original, he said. Avatar was primarily an action/adventure with the spiritual nature of the Na'vi at its heart. Now that audiences have embraced the Na'vi culture, Cameron can give it more weight in the sequels.

http://scifiwire.com/2010/03/james-cameron-dont-call-i.php?

>>8284

Dude, Avatar was filmed as it would be made on 35 mm film, then it was blown up to iMax 75 mm frame...

>>8285
so it will be called Na'vi: the return of Quaritch?

>>8285

>confirming Avatar was primarily a risky tech demo and that sequel(s) will be more story-forward

>>8290
Perhaps I'll be able to enjoy it more next time then.

>>8290

Cameron have a habit for making sequels better that first movies, so I won't be surprised.

>>8293
though his touting of wanting to make the next quicker on a smaller budget

>>8277

Now I want to see that just for the sheer level of trolling behind it.

>>8294

Duh. The tech is already developed and implemented.

Unless he plans on reinventing the wheel a second time, it won't be as expensive nor as time consuming.

>>8294
So by smaller budget he means only the gross national product of ONE country rather that that of an entire CONTINENT like the first movie?

>>8311

yea he'll only buy Dubai with 2 instead of a larger country

>>8293
And ass-kicking moms!
>It is stated in the script that Neytiri is pregnant with Jake's child at the end of the film but was taken out in the final release, or was simply filmed, but deleted from the final film
See http://www.foxscreenings.com/media/pdf/JamesCameronAVATAR.pdf
Ofcoures it was...
From the pre-battle sex I bet! That or the make up sex... You know it happend.

>>8321

Jake's body is still hybrid DNA so its quite possible the kid could die during birth or some latent time-bomb genetics could kill Neytiri and the unborn child.

>>8326
Well aren't you that new shitty spiderman villain.
Life finds a way, man!
In the movies anyway...

>>8326

Not gonna happen, though.

Stop by /tv/ tmr night.
Enjoy all the AVATOLD again.

>>8432
Instead of yet another AVATOLD, Avatards got told.

>>8492

Don't you mean BIGELOWNED?

>>8521

http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/tv/article/steven-spielberg-on-the-pacific-97737

Spielberg says "thank goodness for Avatar" a lot while talking about The Pacific.

>>8530

I figured he would.

Many thought James Cameron's latest epic would sweep the Academy Awards, but here's a look at a few reasond it didn't.

James Cameron's "Avatar" became the highest-grossing movie of all time in theaters, but Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" became the lowest-grossing film ever to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards on Sunday. Even with Best Visual Effects and Best Cinematography wins to boast about, many thought that "Avatar" would follow behind "Titanic" and bring a windfall of Oscar wins. Critics point to several inherent weaknesses, however, including actor fears within the Academy, traditional notions of film and political trends.

"For whatever reason, boomer-age people, older Gen X-ers [in the Academy] are threatened by it," journalist and Hollywood Elsewhere writer Jeff Wells told MTV News. "They feel on some level that they're going to be lost, that they're going to be digitally wiped out in the future."

Wells cited voting actors who are consistently in search of new jobs as the ones who feel they have the most to lose.

"People like JoBeth Williams and others in that branch — we're talking about people who aren't working as much anymore, but they're getting some work and they're marginal — that's most of the Academy's actors branch," he explained. "We're not talking about 3 percent or 4 percent that are working a lot and getting big money for it and doing very well."

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1633477/story.jhtml

>>8554
You sure it wasn't the second-rate story?

>>8554

I'm still not sure why so many industry professionals think motion capture entirely removes actors from their performance :/

>>8558

too stuck in the past. Don't see the future and ways to innovate. Henson Company developed a whole new Motion Capture system that can be synced perfectly real time with the voices. Its a very actor intensive system. Guess they got so angry and defensive this time around due to Avatar not going the Same Way as Sky Cap, course with that it would have only been the set designers and workers that would be put out and not the precious actors.

>>8558
>>8559
Are these the reasons they're giving, or is it inferred?

>>8562

Morgan Freeman and a whole bunch of other actors/academics said they think it takes the performance away from the actor and gives it all to the animators, basically what they've always said about animation and why animated movies get no respect in their award ceremonies. It's inherently different from animation and I think it's going to take first-hand experience for them to believe it. Give it time, I guess.

>>8555

Many would argue similar for Titanic, and yet that won everything.

>>8558
>>8559

Yeah, I think the big problem they have is that they feel the actors are "removed" from the movie.

Their faces are not there, just their voices and their performance.

And particularly with old MoCap, part of that performance was the result of the animators (them interpreting the actor).

>>8564>>8565

Also VA's and Animators are not members of the same union as the Actors

>>8326
I think it'd be a great twist for Zak and Crysta to be driven from the tribe because their failure to procreate angers Enya.

  >>8567
I don't thinks she cares about that.

Also for if you have an isomething you may wanna check out the game, heard its the "best" avatar game!

>>8572
>implying there are "good" Avatar games

>>8575
That's why they put "best" in quotation marks. Cretin.

Successful films often have a way of churning up lawsuits, and one of the most commonplace is for copyright infringement. Some joker (or less often, actual victim of theft) comes out of the woodwork alleging intellectual plagiarism and wanting his fair share. That this should happen to Avatar isn’t a surprise. What’s shocking rather, is that it’s only happened twice so far.
The first suit came from Beijing-based novelist Zhou Shaomou who claimed that his 1997 book, The Legend of the Blue Crow, shared approximately 80% of Avatar’s material. Not being the greedy type, he sought only 8% of the film’s profits, but the case was summarily dismissed by a Chinese Court.
Now another plaintiff has come forward, this time in the form of Vancouver restauranteur, Emil Malak, who claims that Avatar is suspiciously similar to his 1998 screenplay Terra Incognita. THR has it that in the script, “a tree is a focal point of a community of indigenous people and contains their collective memories. His characters are odd-looking creatures, some with braided hair and others with tails. They are protecting their home planet from militaristic human intruders who want to mine precious minerals.”
Malak says that he sent the script and appurtenant design elements to some twenty studios in 2002, including Cameron’s own Lightstorm Entertainment, but never got a response. Now he’s suing Cameron and Twentieth Century Fox in a B.C. Supreme Court, but odds are he wont fare any better than Shaomou. Fox has already issued the following statement: “James Cameron wrote the story for Avatar two years before Mr. Malak claims he wrote his work, and therefore Avatar cannot be based on Terra Incognita. We are confident that the lawsuit will be decided in our favor.”
If nothing else, you can expect the next crackpot lawsuit to stem from material written well before the mid 90’s so as to not make Fox and Cameron’s defense so easy.

http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/assorted-kooks-claim-avatar-plagiarized-their-work/16885

>>8578
>Kooks
Wow, I thought that word was totally antiquated by now.

Anyway, I saw a site that had a list of old sci-fi books with impressively similar details to Avatar, but I forget where exactly it was.

>>8581
io9 did one

http://io9.com/5460954/the-complete-list-of-sources-avatars-accused-of-ripping-off

>>8582
Thaaat's the one.

>>8578

I'm having a sense of deja-vu.

If you've been wanting to take a return trip to Pandora, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has you covered. James Cameron told The Wall Street Journal the company will release his mega-blockbuster, Avatar, on Blu-ray and DVD this April 22nd. Just in time for the globular masses celebrating Earth Day.

For those of you looking for all the bells and whistles, you'll have to wait a bit longer. Cameron told the newspaper, "That's our plan as of right now, and that'll be pretty much bare bones. And then we'll do a value-added DVD and a 3-D Blu-ray in I think November sometime." A spokesman for Fox confirmed that the 3-D version is still in the conceptual stage and doesn't foresee a November release.

The Oscar-nominated director also spoke briefly about a sequel. Cameron would like to do it "cheaper and faster" and have the second installment serve as "a continuation of the same characters." He then added "we're going to widen the universe in quotes, meaning the envelope of the setting of the story."

Avatar's Earth Day release date is not just a witticism. The filmmaker wants to shed a green light on the film with good reason. "We're not going to bequeath to our children a world that's a sustainable world at the rate that we're going," he said. "It's gonna take a fundamental reboot of the way we view our relationship with the natural world and each other and with business and with the economy...that indefinite growth is not a good thing."

Can you justify shelling out the cash for a bare bones disc when the special edition is right around the corner. Is Avatar mania so strong that people will double dip?

http://www.cinematical.com/2010/02/19/avatar-dvd-to-arrive-on-earth-day/

>>8588
>on Earth Day
Oh come on.

>>7771

Interview with Cameron, where he talks about Avatar, its plot, Neytiri's boobs and other things:

http://media.wgaw.org/audio/Cameron_Feeney.mp3

>>8588

Do not want - I'll wait till November for extended edition.

>>8582
So it rips off so much is come back around as something new, in a word its transendid!

"The wildcard is that we might be re-releasing the movie this fall. It's kind of gotten stomped out (in theaters) because of Alice in Wonderland. The word we're getting back from exhibitors is we probably left a couple of hundred million dollars on the table as a result. The question is the appetite still going to be there after the summer glut of movies. We're going to assess that. We're talking about maybe adding in additional footage and doing something creative."

Sauce USAToday interview.

Can it be Avatar extended time now please?

>>8614

and it takes them a good twenty years to put out a cut they can agree on.

>>8614
What, didn't they make enough money? And they're lamenting getting beaten at the box office by AiW? Three months after their movie was released? That's just fucking greedy now.

I could see if it came out the week after, but it's been three months, and a bajillion records. You guys are gonna have to stop sometime.

>>8614

I'd pay again to see those missing scenes in a normal theater.

Watching them on DVD would not be the same.

>>8617

It's not so much about the loss of potential revenue, but their prediction of how much they should spend producing an alternate release given the interest of the public.

PS: I think this is all hype. They know as well as we do that we will buy the shit out of a director's cut.

'Avatar' could be heading back to the cinemas later this year.

James Cameron has revealed he’s planning to blast the sci-fi movie back onto the big screen, complete with all-new footage.

Despite 'Avatar' becoming the most successful film of all time, there is a feeling it could have made even more money if it hadn’t been pulled from a number of 3D screens to make room for Disney’s 3D version of 'Alice in Wonderland'.

Director Cameron is said to have around 40 minutes of cuts that didn’t make the final film, including one action scene showing Jake Scully proving himself to the Na’vi tribe, reports Reuters.

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/14514/avatar-set-for-re-release.html

>>8627

Nice, hope people don't get burned out on it

>>8627

Watch out for DELETED SCENES!

http://jamescameron.blogspot.com/2010/01/avatar-screenplay-alterations-deletions.html

>In 2148, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ran a $1.2 million ad campaign showing images of a dying and starving Na'vi woman, with strong slogans blaming the RDA. These had great impact on the general population of the world; it was images of the humanoid Na'vi that captured the world's attention and convinced the ICA to authorize RDA expeditions. It was later discovered that PETA's images were faked; this triggered an international outcry. The so-called “Catwoman” incident, referring the woman in the ads who was made-up with prosthetics, led to the first of many new national advertising bills. The Truthful Advertising Bill of 2149 (in the United States) extensively covered and revisited the parameters of 'false advertising.' This is well known in the political world as one of the only bills to which there has not yet been found any loophole or uncovered area.
From http://www.pandorapedia.com/doku.php/the_rda

>>8741

Obvious wiki-vandalism.

>>8742
Or smartass writers.
Also this http://www.learnnavi.org/docs/Learn-Navi-Activity-Book.pdf
Dont know if awnsome...

avatar dvd box shot

>>8754

>BluRay + DVD

wat

>>8758
yeah, they make Blu Ray/DVD combos now. I don't know why.

>>8754 *sigh*
I really dont like that poster. So ofcoures its the cover... The Nov relase better has something else!

>>8758
It's common practice now to include both BluRay and DVD in one package to help with the transition and to maximize who they can sell it to.

>>8746

>> This is a piece of fan-(non)fiction and is not for sale.

>>7771

A futurists' view on "Avatar":

http://www.futuristmovies.com/index.php/movies/avatar/

A pro with avatar that was lacking in D9 was the we got to "know" the na'vi better then the prawns. We got to learn there ways along with Jake. All we know about the prawn is what the "news show" tells us about them.

>>8767
And I'm starting to hate futurist that diss mecha!
Its an XX-large sided spacesuit retro fitted for combat! How hard is that to understand!

>>8769
Once they stop being suits and start being vehicles they're just impractical compared to non-humanoid models. Too easy to tip over.

Their application in Avatar was pretty reasonable, though unarmored cockpits are stupid as always.

>>8768
The element of ambiguity was part of why I liked D9, actually, but it wouldn't have worked for Avatar.

>>8770
to top it off, as a Space vehicle the mechs are extremely stupid. Their whole design is flawed by real world standards but works fine in the film.

>>8770

Not for combat.

Get ready for "Avatar"-plus.

James Cameron and Fox are in discussions about rereleasing "Avatar," primarily in 3D theaters, in late summer -- and, tantalizingly, with additional scenes that had been left on the cutting-room floor in the rush to ready the epic for its Dec. 18 release.

The impetus for a rerelease is the feeling that, even though "Avatar" is the highest-grossing movie of all time, producers could have raked in even more money had they been able to hold on to the digital and Imax 3D screens that were lost when Disney opened "Alice in Wonderland" in 3D on March 5.

As for how much additional footage Cameron might add to "Avatar," the guessing began early Thursday when Imax CEO Richard Gelfond said during a Gabelli & Co. investor conference in New York that Cameron had about 40 minutes of additional material that didn't make the theatrical cut. He also predicted a rerelease, which he said probably would occur in the fall.

Cameron had said that he had 10-12 minutes of extra scenes that he cut and could quickly put through postproduction and have ready to add to a director's cut for a theatrical reissue or as an extra on the DVD release. One scene has to do with Jake Sully's avatar proving himself to the Na'vi people; the other involves a native festival during which tribe member Tsu'tey gets drunk.

The maximum length a movie can be released in analog Imax theaters is 170 minutes -- a number Cameron was aware of when he made his original edit -- so he could add about 10 minutes to the 160-minute current run time and still be in all Imax locations. That seems more likely than trying to add as much as 40 minutes.

The week before "Alice" arrived, Fox's movie still was minting millions in 2,456 North American theaters, including 179 Imax sites. This week, it dropped to a theater count of 2,163, including 667 digital 3D and eight Imax 3D locations, resulting in a 41% week-over-week drop in grosses.

Through March 4, "Avatar" had grossed $127.1 million of its $712.5 million domestic haul in Imax theaters; this week's giant-screen take was $175,884.

"Avatar" has done more than 80% of its domestic business in 3D theaters, which represented fewer than half of its runs.

The film also has grossed $1.9 billion outside North America for a total of about $2.6 billion. It has helped expand 3D globally and broken records worldwide.

When "Avatar" was forced off Imax screens -- after the longest and most lucrative run in Imax history -- to accommodate "Alice," Fox saw increased grosses on nearby digital 3D screens, an indication that demand remains.

How much did the film leave behind? Cameron was in New York this week for a demonstration of 3D TV and told USA Today, "The word we're getting back from exhibitors is we probably left a couple hundred million dollars on the table as a result."

The summer rerelease would follow an expected home video premiere in 2D form, which will happen as soon as next month and no later than May. Fox has made no official announcement about a release date for the 2D DVD.

Cameron told USA Today there might be a Blu-ray Disc release of the 3D version for home use as early as the fall, but Fox studio sources indicate that is unlikely. They believe there won't be enough of an installed base of 3D TV sets to make that worthwhile and said it is more likely to come next year.

Cameron and Fox also are in discussions about one or two sequels to "Avatar" that would use many of the digital "assets" that were created for the original. There is no script or deal in place, but the filmmaker and studio have indicated that it is something they would like to do.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i474fda2d02866bfda9408f1785213695

>The maximum length a movie can be released in analog Imax theaters is 170 minutes -- a number Cameron was aware of when he made his original edit
What the fuck? is IMAX that outdated of a standard?

>so he could add about 10 minutes to the 160-minute current run time and still be in all Imax locations. That seems more likely than trying to add as much as 40 minutes.
ffffffffffffffff-

>>8771
Ah, good point!

>>8780

No. Just no.

I want +40 min. version, not some rushed add-ons.

It seems that Avatar is going to be like Blade Runner, in four versions.

>>8794

so about 20 years till we get the final cut?

>>8794
>not some rushed add-ons
see
>>The maximum length a movie can be released in analog Imax theaters is 170 minutes -- a number Cameron was aware of when he made his original edit

Posting from DA time!

>>8797

Thats some huge fariys!

So badass looking!

An Avatar comic book would be nice...

>>8016
*This one needs to play the game better*

I need a brake now...

>>8809

Red painted booobzzz...

>>8829

Source????

>>8840
Surprisingly hard to find...

>>8841

I can't figure the artists from filename...

>>8843
I know... I just hit save without checking/careing about the filenames and now my avatar folder is abit messy...
Just seach for avatar on Deviantart and maybe you'll have better luck finding it then I hade!

Also I think the thread is dead...

>>8845

>Also I think the thread is dead...

What you would expect?

Oscars had been awarded, and now this movie is pulled out from cinemas.

In old topic there were plenty of analysis. Maybe we should paste them, before topic got discarded.

What do you folks think of the character of Tsu'tey?

Preferably more than "you mean Kocoum" or "you mean Proud Warrior Race Guy?"

>>8848
Tsu'tey had a shitty situation with no good outcome for him whichever way.

Also, his face looked really wierd even though he had an actor. Maybe it's becasue he's always scowling.

>>8849
The scowling did not do him any favors.

Did anyone else think that Grace went furthest into the Uncanny Valley?

>>8848

Tsu'Tey: born to fight, destined to die.

Also: reversed ':3'

>>8848

I was so fucking sad when he fell to his death :(

>>8857

>Also: reversed ':3'

I lol'd

>>8860

I could be worse. In scenario Wainfleet had cut off his Tsahelu. :O

Check the Alonso face, he looks remotely like Tsu'Tey.

BTW: older Avatar topics goes here:

http://plus4chan.org/boards/tv/res/5976.html
http://plus4chan.org/boards/tv/res/6343.html
http://plus4chan.org/boards/tv/res/7172.html

>>8855
Both Grace and Norm looked very un-Na'vi like, almost too human looking.

  *snort* Hahhahaha!
Can't belive this guy!
And sorry I missed the thread...

>>8862

Propably it is intentional; Warthington looks better in his "na'visona".

>>8848

Pandora's Tough Guy

Husa! I found it! http://zhuzhu.deviantart.com/art/AVATAR-152410961

>>8919

Hat tip for you.

thread is auto-saging ;_;

>>8947
I call for someone to make a na'vi/avatar slowpoke! We can all use it later... Come on...

>>8947

We must make a new one, when this will be out of first page.