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    hey i could think of way worse ways to go than while watching avatar!

    he should consider himself lucky
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    China renames 'Avatar' mountain in honour of film

    The Southern Sky Column in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, will now be known as the Avatar Hallelujah Mountain. Xiaoxiang Morning News said the mountain was officially renamed at a ceremony on Monday. The paper said a photographer from Hollywood had visited the Wulingyuan Scenic Area, the location of the mountain, in 2008. They went on to claim photographs of the mountain had been used as the basis for Avatar's fictional world of Pandora.

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    Titanic Confucius

    I can't remember if I mentioned the impact of Titanic upon China. It was so huge there. I remember seeing posters for Titanic way out in this rural areas where people were living in dirt floor homes. Titanic had just the sort of epic tragic love story that Chinese romantics love.

    China reiterates film rules after 'Avatar' flap
    (AFP) – 1 day ago

    BEIJING — China on Monday reiterated rules that most of the screen time in the nation's cinemas be given to domestic films, after it cut short the run of US blockbuster "Avatar".

    The State Council, or cabinet, also called for steps to boost the Chinese film industry, such as building more digital cinemas and having studios raise funds through bank loans and by issuing shares and bonds.

    The statement came after the 2D version of Avatar was pulled ahead of schedule from cinemas on Friday amid charges that the government had shunted it aside to make way for the patriotic Chinese biopic "Confucius".

    Avatar, the futuristic adventure that was released in both 2D and 3D versions January 4, has become China's all-time box-office champion, topping 80 million dollars in sales, state media said last week.

    The State Council statement said the industry must "earnestly implement relevant rules requiring that screening time of domestic movies must be no less than two-thirds of total screening time in a year".

    China currently allows 20 foreign films to be shown in the country's cinemas every year.

    It also should step up efforts to "help domestic movies enter the international mainstream film market" as part of its strategy to "increase the nation's cultural soft power", according to the statement.

    It said the industry would grow more than 20 percent a year by 2015, without giving a comparative figure.

    The United States has complained repeatedly about Chinese limits on the screening of foreign films, and the World Trade Organisation in December upheld a ruling that orders Beijing to free up distribution of US films, music and books.

    Intreractive graphic on 3-D film technology as it enjoys a revival with the multi-Oscar nominations for James Cameron's Avatar and the release of a string of other movies in the format, including Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Toy Story 3 and Shrek Forever.
    BTW, we also have a Confucius thread going, although it's not very active compared to this one.
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    Greetings,

    I had the opportunity to see this movie. I liked it, initially. I then got the feeling that I saw this movie before and gave it some thought. I got my "ding." This movie is remarkably similar to a low budget film that came out in the late 80's. The movie was "Nightbreed": an adaptation of Cabal, a short story written by Clive Barker. If they had one quarter of the budget that Avatar had, people would still be talking about it.

    mickey

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    The movie is nothing new. Most compare to Dances with wolves.

    Outsider gets involved with gang/government/army. Attacks/wrongs/kills innocent people. Outsider has second thoughts.

    Been done hundreds of times.

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    Cameron's Avatar Treatment

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    mmmmm bluebies
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    Michelle!

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    APRIL 15, 2019 10:25AM PT
    Michelle Yeoh Joins James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Sequels
    By DAVE MCNARY
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    Michelle Yeoh is heading to Pandora. The veteran actress is boarding James Cameron’s “Avatar” franchise, and will portray scientist Dr. Karina Mogue.

    “Throughout her career, Michelle has always created unique and memorable characters,” Cameron said. “I look forward to working with Michelle to do the same thing on the ‘Avatar’ sequels.”

    Yeoh starred in “Crazy Rich Asians” as the mother of Henry Golding’s character. She also toplines CBS’ “Star Trek: Discovery.” Her credits include “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Tomorrow Never Dies” and “Memoirs of a Geisha.” The Malaysian actress will be seen next in Paul Feig’s “Last Christmas” alongside Emilia Clarke and Golding, and in Joe Carnahan’s “Boss Level.”

    “Avatar 2,” the first of four follow-ups, will hit theaters on Dec. 18, 2020. The remaining installments will be released on the same weekend over the next few years, with “Avatar 3” arriving on Dec. 17, 2021; “Avatar 4” on Dec. 20, 2024; and finally “Avatar 5” on Dec. 19, 2025.

    The 2009 fantasy epic “Avatar” remains the all-time box office champion, with $2.8 billion worldwide. Cameron initially envisioned two sequels, but after meeting with the screenwriters, artists and designers, realized he had too much material and extended his plans to four movies in total.

    Cameron and Jon Landau are producing through their Lightstorm Entertainment company. Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver are returning for the upcoming films. Kate Winslet and “Game of Thrones” star Oona Chaplin have also joined the cast. The script was written by Cameron with Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Shane Salerno.

    Yeoh is represented by manager David Unger.
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    Multiple Fox Films Getting Axed at Disney
    8:22 AM PDT 4/24/2019 by Tatiana Siegel , Borys Kit


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    Disney studio chief Alan Horn has jettisoned a number of Fox projects from his development and preproduction slate.

    After scrapping Fox 2000, Alan Horn is culling projects that were in development before the $71.3 billion deal closed: "They are looking at everything."
    Call it spring cleaning, Burbank-style.

    Since Disney's $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox assets closed March 20, film studio chief Alan Horn has jettisoned a number of Fox projects from his development and preproduction slate, including the $170 million tentpole Mouse Guard, the Tom Hanks starrer News of the World (to Universal) and an adaptation of Angie Thomas' best-seller On the Come Up (to Paramount).

    Also poised for curbside pickup, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, is Ted Melfi's mental-hospital-set dramedy Fruit Loops, which has Woody Harrelson starring. (The project is still officially in the Disney fold, but likely will be put into turnaround.)

    Three of the four films came from Elizabeth Gabler's now-shuttered Fox 2000 division (Mouse Guard being the exception). Insiders say Disney is simply culling the enormous influx of projects. Mouse Guard, which was poised for a May start date, was said to be too expensive for a nonfranchise film.

    As for why On the Come Up didn’t make the cut, a source says Thomas’ last project, The Hate U Give, lost $30 million to $40 million despite a modest $23 million budget and a marketing spend believed to be about $30 million.

    Meanwhile, a number of movies greenlit in late December and early January by Fox film president Emma Watts, who made the transition to Disney, are moving forward. Those include the Matthew Vaughn-directed Kingsman prequel The Great Game, the low-budget witchcraft pic Fear Street and Steven Spielberg's West Side Story.

    Likely shooting in the fall is Free Guy — a Shawn Levy-Ryan Reynolds collaboration — and Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile. One Fox film that won't be questioned is Avatar 2, which finished shooting last Thursday.

    But even some of those green lights are being met with scrutiny. One source says Horn is questioning the apparent plan to have young characters smoking onscreen in West Side Story. "With Fox, we can make movies that right now I say no to. ... We always have to think about the smoking policy. The audience for a Disney movie may not know what they are going to see, but they know what they aren't going to see," the exec said in a recent interview with THR. "There are certain things we just can't include because we'll get letters."

    Despite Mouse Guard now being shopped to other studios, Watts' group is not being asked to make lower-priced movies, says a source. Rather, she is being tasked with making larger all-audience PG-13 and R-rated films. Look for the domestic terrorism thriller The Ballad of Richard Jewell — about the security guard at the center of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing — to be among the first Fox green lights, possibly with Clint Eastwood directing.

    "We are now just only beginning to see how all this consolidation will change how movies get greenlit and made," says a producer involved with a Fox-developed movie. "They are looking at everything."
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    de-throned

    I still say Endgame cheated with the re-release. Avatar was a one-off at the time, not the culmination of 17+ films.


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    AVENGERS: ENDGAME FINALLY ENDS AVATAR'S BOX OFFICE SUPREMACY
    IT'S NOT JUST CAPTAIN MARVEL WHO'S GONE HIGHER, FURTHER, FASTER
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    It might have taken a while, but it finally happened: Avengers: Endgame has overtaken James Cameron's Avatar in a long, grueling box office battle.

    The massively popular superhero movie passed another impressive milestone, having finally surpassed Avatar's box office totals, but only those from the movie's original theatrical run. Much of the earnings that comprise Avatar's impressive totals were actually derived from its theater re-release (much like Avengers: Endgame is getting), so unfortunately this isn't the big hurrah we've all been waiting for, but it's close.



    It's going to be interesting to see if Avengers: Endgame's return to theaters with additional content will bring it even further over the line with all the new moviegoers piling in to see the movie for the first (or thirteenth) time.

    The new version of the movie will include a few deleted scenes at its conclusion, a tribute to the legendary Stan Lee, and a post-credits scene that you'll definitely want to stay afterward to see.

    You can look forward to seeing Avengers: Endgame with expanded content as early as this weekend (June 28), so the totals will start rolling in after that. If it continues to perform as well as it did when it opened with an estimated $350 million in ticket sales, then there's a very high probability that we'll see the numbers skyrocket even higher over Avatar's performance.

    If you're looking to make it a Marvel week and weekend, Captain Marvel is now out to purchase and stream, and Spider-Man: Far From Home is about to debut in theaters on July 2. Your favorite Marvel heroes are far from being retired from the movies, so you can still head out and support your favorites (most of them, anyway) for the time being.

    If you want Avatar's record to be beaten, it'll be up to you to show up and show out, because Endgame is definitely worthy of going down in history, right?
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