Tag: Titanic
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‘Spider-Man’ Perches Atop U.K. Box Office, ‘Scream’ Scares Up Strong debut
Sony’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” spent a fifth consecutive weekend at the top of the U.K. and Ireland box office, collecting £3.2 million ($4.3 million), according to numbers provided by Comscore.With a mighty total of £84.1 million ($114.2 million), “Spider-Man” has swung past “Titanic” (£80.2 million) and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi (£82.7) to claim…
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‘Avatar’ Sequel Required Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet Hold Their Breath for Over 5 Minutes
It’s taken over a decade for director James Cameron to put together his numerous “Avatar” sequels, but we’re getting closer to seeing the finished product and the director is sharing some news on the project.The “Titanic” director discussed how “Avatar 2,” coming to theaters next December, will expand the geography of the fictional land of…
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James Cameron Talks His Scrapped Xenogenesis Script And How It Saved Avatar [Exclusive]
Before “Titanic” and “Avatar” director James Cameron was King of the World, he was an upstart young filmmaker trying to get his first feature off the ground. Created in the wake of the “Star Wars” phenomenon, Cameron and his pal Randall Frakes set out to make an extremely ambitious science-fiction movie titled “Xenogenesis” about a young…
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James Cameron Wants To Release The Same Story As A Two-Hour Movie And A Six-Hour Streaming Project
James Cameron is here to remind you that he still exists, and he still has big plans about what he wants to do with movies, over and above the four “Avatar” sequels that he’s had brewing since 2009. That’s right, “Avatar” is still culturally relevant. It’s still the highest-grossing movie of all time, thanks to its…
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What James Cameron’s Spider-Man Movie Would’ve Looked Like
Spider-Man is easily one of the most iconic superheroes out there — and he’s certainly the most revisited one. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” will be the webslinger’s eighth film, and one that will culminate the efforts of the two iterations that came before current Spidey, played by Tom Holland. The hero is a cherished childhood…
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‘Day After …’ Review: Lively Doc Offers Postcard Views and Class Wars Aboard a Bangladeshi Riverboat Queen
From “Show Boat” through “Ship of Fools” to “Titanic,” if a certain strain of Hollywood melodrama has taught us anything, it’s that all of human life is to be found on a passenger boat — our dreams and desires and social differences somehow made clearer at some distance from dry land. Bangladeshi filmmaker Kamar Ahmad…
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Everything We Know About The True Lies TV Show So Far
Between “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” and “Titanic,” James Cameron directed an action comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis called “True Lies.” The story follows Schwarzenegger as a government agent struggling to balance his double life as a spy with his familial responsibilities. It was the first film to cost $100 million dollars, was…
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The Best Movies And Shows Coming To Netflix In October 2021
October is right around the corner, bringing with it cooler weather, pumpkin-flavored everything, Halloween, and, of course, new titles on Netflix. The streaming giant just revealed their line-up for October, a large list that includes spooky-themed entertainment, new TV shows, Netflix originals, and some obscure show called “Seinfeld.” Never heard of it. Keep reading to…
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James Cameron Refused to Let Studio Trim ‘Avatar’ Set Piece Because It Had No Plot Value
James Cameron is the latest addition to the Masterclass family, and /Film has a great rundown of highlights from the “Avatar” and “Titanic” director’s three-hour-and-20-minute filmmaking course (there are 15 videos total in Cameron’s Masterclass program). During a course on crafting the perfect movie set piece, Cameron reveals there was some studio pushback against the…
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Kate Winslet’s 15 Best Performances Ranked
Kate Winslet is an actress whose performances aren’t defined so much by their rigid technicality, but by their manner of presence. Much like the work of a classical Hollywood movie star, Kate Winslet’s power lies more in the brusque delivery of a cutting line or a piercing glance. There’s a looseness writhing to get out…