Tag: Avatar
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Avatar: The Way of Water: Colonel Quaritch Should Have Stayed Dead
James Cameron certainly knows how to create great movie villains. Both the T-800 in The Terminator and the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day invoke pure terror, and the Xenomorphs have rarely been more deadly than they are in Aliens. While the first Avatar is often criticized for its one-note characters, Stephen Lang seems to…
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Does Avatar: The Way of Water Appropriate Maori Traditions?
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Avatar: The Way of Water.The comparisons that the first Avatar drew with the American war epic Dances With Wolves were fairly clear. Not only was Avatar also a film about an outsider assimilating to an indigenous species and fighting against his former government, but the film’s depiction of…
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10 Times Studio Interference Made A Movie Better, According to Reddit
Fans and directors alike routinely complain about studio interference. David Fincher said that the execs tried to control him on the set of Alien 3, Studio Ghibli’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind was butchered when the distributor cut it down to 95 minutes for the English release, and Paramount reportedly had a hand…
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Hong Kong Box Office Sees Lofty Drama ‘A Guilty Conscience’ Reach Same Flight Level as ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ – Global Bulletin
Hong Kong HighAlready the highest grossing local film in its home market, courtroom drama, “A Guilty Conscience” has broken into Hong Kong’s all-time top ten box office ranking with a cumulative of Hk$107 million ($13.7 million). Data from Hong Kong Box Office Ltd. shows the film achieving the feat after just 41 days in cinemas…
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What Was Hollywood’s First Blockbuster?
James Cameron has done it again — 13 years after the release of Avatar, and 26 since Titanic gave us Leonardo DiCaprio tragically dying holding onto a wooden door, Avatar: The Way of Water cracked the top 5 highest grossing movies of all time. The sequel is third only to the first Avatar, which came…
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With ‘The Fabelmans,’ Production Designer Rick Carter Completed a Visual Journey with Steven Spielberg
Although Oscar-winning production designer Rick Carter has worked closely with directors Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron (“Avatar”), and J.J. Abrams (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “The Rise of Skywalker”), his greatest collaboration spans 11 films with Steven Spielberg, from “Jurassic Park” to “The Fabelmans.”Indeed, Spielberg brings out the best in Carter, who enjoys exploring characters…
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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Overtakes ‘Titanic’ as Third-Highest Grossing Movie of All Time
James Cameron’s blockbuster epic “Titanic” has relinquished its spot as the third-highest grossing movie in history to another James Cameron blockbuster epic, “
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Nia Long: ‘Why Wasn’t I Considered’ for ‘Avatar’ Over Zoe Saldaña?
Nia Long has a long memory when it comes to roles she didn’t get.The “You People” star admitted that she has felt “passed over” for projects in the past and wondered why she was not considered for certain roles, like the co-lead in James Cameron’s blockbuster franchise “Avatar” before Zoe Saldaña was cast.“I’ve felt passed…