By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com : Sam Worthington — star of the latest “Terminator,” the remade “Clash of the Titans,” and James Cameron’s “Avatar” — continues to be one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood. This morning at Comic-Con, it was confirmed by Variety that he’s now attached to star in “Dan Dare” for Warner Bros.

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James Cameron — the Oscar-winning lensman behind the world’s two top-grossing films, Titanic and Avatar , — has signed on to direct a 3D concert film based on the Black Eyed Peas’ World Tour. “Right now, we are planning our 3D tour movie, and James Cameron is directing it – we have the biggest director, because we are the biggest group on the planet,” band frontman Will.iam divulges to VIBE.

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Oprah Winfrey has proudly sit at the top of Forbes magazine’s World’s Most Powerful Celebrities annual list, which was compiled from June 2009 to June 2010. The talk show host, who knockedAngelina Jolie off the top spot, managed to score 315 million dollars from her media empire.
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Animal Fair’s Guide to Choosing the Perfect Pandoran Pet Most people are familiar with the lush and robust world of James Cameron’s record-breaking blockbuster, Avatar , especially considering it’s astronomically high gross called for no small amount of repeat business.

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Talk about a blue movie! Porn giant Hustler’s knee-slapping parody of Avatar will be one of the adult film industry’s highest-budget productions to date when it debuts as the world’s first XXX-rated 3D spoof. Earlier this year, James Cameron’s record-breaking sci-fi epic toppled Titanic as the world’s best-grossing film

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SEOUL, South Korea — “Avatar” director James Cameron said Thursday that 3-D will replace 2-D as the standard, mainstream format for film, television and online content in less than 25 years. Viewers will soon not only enjoy films in 3-D theaters but all forms of entertainment, including sports and music shows on TVs and laptops, Cameron said at a technology forum in Seoul

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LONDON : Acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron’s oscar winning 3-D sci-fi epic ‘Avatar’ has beaten ‘The Dark Knight’ to set up a Blu-ray record as consumers snatched 1.5 million copies of the movie on the day of the home video release.

A total of 4 million copies (including Blu-ray) of the movie were sold on the first day itself, reports contactmusic.com.

The previous Blu-ray record was held by “The Dark Knight” with 600,000 copies.

While some analysts had wondered whether home video sales of the movie would take off without a 3-D element, reviewers Thursday praised the overall look of the film on the small screen, several using the term “gorgeous” to describe it.

In Britain’s Guardian newspaper, critic Gordon Mackie wrote that the DVD release “still feels like an event without that third dimension. It’s very much a James Cameron movie, for better and worse.”

“Its visual splendours are many. But Cameron movies come with his own dialogue so it’s only the visuals that stay with you, and you sometimes feel bludgeoned with his none-too-original green, antiwar message writ large,” he added.

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Justin Lin (director) / Chris Morgan (screenplay)
CAST: Vin Diesel … Dominic Toretto
Paul Walker … Brian O’Conner
Jordana Brewster … Mia Toretto
Michelle Rodriguez … Letty
John Ortiz … Campos
Laz Alonso … Fenix Rise
Gal Gadot … Gisele Harabo
Sung Kang … Han Lue

Fast And Furious 4 Review Hollywood News Up Date Long review: Paul Walker and Vin Diesel reunites on the franchise that made them stars in the first place with “Fast & Furious”, the fourth chapter in the popular car series directed by Justin Lin, who previously helmed the third installment, “Tokyo Drift”. Setting itself as a prequel of sorts to “Tokyo Drift”, it’s best to approach “Fast & Furious” as if parts two and three never happened. Sure, there is a nice little tie-in with “Tokyo Drift” via the character Han (Sung Kang), but for the most part “Fast & Furious” is more like a direct sequel to 2001’s “The Fast and the Furious” without all the filler that is the second and third part.

The film opens in South America, where fugitive Dominic Toretto (Diesel), having fled the States after the events of the first movie, find his life of crime with girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) dangerous for those around him. So Dominic flees yet again, leaving Letty to return home. Alas, home proves just as dangerous, as it’s not long before Dominic receives a phone call from his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster) that Letty has been murdered by the henchman of the mysterious drug lord Braga. It’s the same Braga that now-FBI agent Brian O’Conner (Walker) has been pursuing for the last two years without any success. Brian catches a break when he discovers a way into Braga’s inner circle through a street race that the drug lord runs regularly in order to recruit drivers to transport his drugs into the States.

This sets the stage for an uneasy reunion as Dominic returns to the States to exact revenge for Letty’s murder, while Brian finds that his job with the FBI is on shaky grounds. As Mia asks him at one point, is he really a good guy pretending to be a bad guy, or the other way around? Brian answers that he doesn’t know himself. It’s a good thing, then, that Dominic is there to help out, as the two ends up working together to bring down Braga with or without the FBI’s help. As it so happens in these movies, the bad guys are usually better at being good guys than the ones with the badge.

“Fast & Furious” is what you would expect from the car franchise – lots of racing and custom cars to get all you gearheads out there excited. Letty’s murder and Dominic and Brian’s quest for justice keeps the film’s plot moving, but there’s no doubt Justin Lin knows where his bread is buttered – it’s all about the machines that go vroom vroom, baby. And if they’re not racing, there are lots of long, elaborately choreographed sequences where pretty looking cars go really, really fast while being driven by guys who know what they’re doing. There is requisite romance between Brian and Mia, and Dominic gets a little taste with the bad guy’s, well, bad girl (Gal Gadot), but don’t fool yourself, this is a boy’s movie through and through.

What’s there to say except if you liked the franchise, you’ll definitely find a lot to like about “Fast & Furious”. From a character standpoint, it’s probably the most nuanced of all the previous installments (though admittedly that doesn’t say much, the series has always been weak on characters), and writer Chris Morgan certainly gives his leading men plenty to do. Dominic growls and stalks his way through the movie like an avenging angel, ready to beat any bad guy into submission. He even shakes off a gunshot the way we would react upon being bitten by an ant. Except, well, he doesn’t even scratch. The script also has plenty of moments for Walker’s Brian O’Conner, who really comes to realize that he’s more bad guy than good guy, and that maybe, just maybe, he should just stop pretending and get on with being who he really is. Surprisingly, the film does a really good job of stripping the character down to his street essence.

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In an earlier post, I asked whether The Hurt Locker would have won top Oscars over Avatar if it had been directed by a man. Here I’ll speculate about some interwoven psychological dramas that may have helped it to win, ones with implications for all of our lives.

Let’s consider the following possibilities–a “film-maker’s dozen”:

1. The Hurt Locker won not only because it was directed by a woman, but by a very specific woman, Kathryn Bigelow, the third of five wives of James Cameron, creator and director of Avatar, its main competition.
2. As one of his ex’s, she knew his foibles, and had lived out their consequences.
3. Mark Boal’s script appealed to her for many reasons, but one of them was that at some level she grasped it was about a military version of James Cameron.
4. To wit, as described in my earlier post, this is a particular character type, the kind of person who is absolutely brilliant at his work and this passion consumes him–whether it is bomb-defusing or film-making–largely to the detriment of other attachments. (By the way, the “he” could be a “she”; as such people exist in all walks of life. They are the kind of people you want to have as your doctor or broker when the going gets tough or as the creative force behind your project if you hope to make big waves or big bucks.)
5. This type of person is phenomenal at their work, but when it comes to personal relationships they can be pretty dismal–unless they’ve truly worked on integrating their genius with their personal lives. They make astonishing films or great CEOs, but lousy life partners or parents.
6. They make a mess of their personal lives and are destructive to those they love. They create psychological casualties. The damage inflicted plays out all over the place (keeping therapists in business).
7. The more mundane script in which such talented people strive for a genuinely satisfying and constructive balance between their work and personal lives is a hard won achievement. It’s a tough act to follow, though not an impossible one (in Hollywood, think Jeff Bridges or Meryl Streep).
8. Making the most of the “lousy personal life” theme wasn’t lost on the promoters of this year’s Oscars. The recent Academy Awards drew the largest viewing audience in recent years, perhaps because of the brilliant subliminal exploitation of this very drama as the “main event” in the contest between Hurt Locker and Avatar.
9. This quite brilliant exploitation pulled for great interest in what might otherwise have been a boring “slam-dunk” evening. It also partially accounts for the juggernaut that shifted the tide from Avatar to Hurt Locker leading up to the Academy Awards — a juggernaut so huge that even Avatar, James Cameron’s game-changer, couldn’t stop it. Hollywood wasn’t about to miss the opportunity to put this juicy beneath-the-surface drama center stage.
10. Cameron and Bigelow conducted themselves with great dignity in the face of this drama, but nevertheless it was the “main event”, not the artistic merit of their productions. Doubtless they were helped to do well with it by having remained admiring colleagues and friends in the twenty years since their brief marriage. And if the main character in The Hurt Locker is any indication, Bigelow had come to terms with who Cameron is–both in his brilliance and his limitations. The Hurt Locker script is pretty cheerfully accepting of its protagonist volunteering for another tour of duty to escape his brief stint at home with his baby son and associated trappings–in part because “war is a drug”, but also because parenting and home life pose their own huge demands, ones impossibly mundane for this type of person compared to, say, the intense risk and thrill of defusing bombs (or making films, or fill-in-the-blank-with-whatever-your-passion).
11. Instead, influencing the outcome was a combination of Bigelow’s gender — the entertainment industry being genuinely starved for a plausible top-prize-winning woman; the appeal of her defeating a powerful man who’d already won top Oscars for Titanic and been perceived as immodest in accepting these awards; and the subliminal story of how Cameron and Bigelow each measured up as human beings. In this last drama, the hidden one, Cameron starred in the leading role as brilliant megalomaniac/erratic ex-spouse/erratic father to the daughter he conceived with successor wife to Bigelow, Linda Hamilton of his films The Terminator and Terminator 2. By contrast, Bigelow co-starred as the gracious and principled heroine. Fostering her win was the perception of her as a class-act — a finer person, not necessarily a finer artist. (No matter that Cameron’s home life may have settled down with his current wife, actress Suzy Amis who played a bit part in Titanic, and their three children plus one step-child each).
12. If the above is true, it is ironic in the extreme because it means Hollywood produced a subtly resonant morality tale for these Academy Awards — Tinsel Town not being known for its morals.

So what might be the moral of this morality tale? Often you get away with it — the most brilliant talent wins, no matter what. But sometimes you don’t, so it might be smart to think carefully about your major life choices. Otherwise you could end up shunned, regardless of how vast and innovative your talent. In any case, it’s in your enlightened self-interest to live your life well. Go to the effort, put in the work. Try not to create carnage along the way. If you don’t want to be tied down or can’t honor and cherish your mate, don’t marry (or divorce without having kids). If you don’t actually want to raise children, don’t have them. As a grown-up, you are free to choose. But if you decide you want these things, or even if you happen into them haphazardly, realize the challenges, sacrifices, responsibilities and renunciations involved. If you truly want to build a better society, these are the bricks, impossibly small though they may seem. Put away the “bad boy” (or “bad girl”) stuff. Heed the instructive and cautionary morality tale that may have been at the heart of these Oscars.

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