Tag: Avatar
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James Cameron Wants Matt Damon to Star in an ‘Avatar’ Installment, Even After He Turned Down the Original
James Cameron doesn’t want Matt Damon to look back in anger anymore.The “
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James Cameron Reacts to Matt Damon Losing Out on 250 Million by Rejecting ‘Avatar’ Offer: ‘Get Over It!’
James Cameron has got to laugh when it comes to Matt Damon turning down a role in “Avatar.” Damon went viral in 2021 after he revealed at the Cannes Film Festival that Cameron not only courted him to star in the 2009 epic, but also offered him a deal in which Damon would get 10…
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Does Avatar: The Way Of Water Prove That 3D Movies Are Still Relevant?
James Cameron is the type of director that is always looking for the next way to truly innovate and push the theatrical experience to its limits. That’s partially why the aesthetics of “Avatar” look the way they do, with fully CG-generated worlds and motion-captured Na’vi characters. The 2009 film was built from the ground up…
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Sam Worthington Lost Out on ‘Green Lantern’ Role After Questioning Logic of Film: ‘It Didn’t Make Much Sense’
Sam Worthington almost went from “Avatar” to DC superhero…that is, if the script had made sense to him.The “Avatar: The Way of Water” actor revealed that he was almost cast in 2011 DC film “Green Lantern” as Hal Jordan — except he couldn’t wrap his head around the plot.“It didn’t make much sense to me…
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Avatar 2: Sigourney Weaver on Why She Wanted Kiri to Be Less “Neytiri-Like”
Thirteen years since Avatar stunned audiences and broke box office records, James Cameron returns to Pandora with his long-awaited sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water. Also returning, and reuniting with Cameron for the first time since the two worked together on the genre classic, Aliens, is Academy Award-nominee Sigourney Weaver. Yes, her original character, Grace…
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Avatar Is Obsessed With Showing Violent Coloniation
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Avatar: The Way of Water.Any film that was as popular and acclaimed as Avatar was bound to attract a wave of backlash (especially after it took the crown of becoming the #1 highest-grossing film of all-time), but one of the stranger criticisms that the first film received was…
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James Cameron: “Every Take Is a Blank Slate” in the Virtual World of “Avatar”
When James Cameron wrote and directed “Avatar” in 2009, he introduced performance capture technology and other innovations that would change the movies forever, as his techniques were adopted and developed (though never surpassed) by the industry at large. Now he has done it again with “Avatar: The Way of Water,” a sequel that marks the…