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James Cameron has started filming the first of the four Avatar sequels, with a first look at the new young actors cast for the movie released that will be joining Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana on Pandora. EW.com posted the following image and details, which includes they are the forest-dwelling offspring of Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe
In addition to the X-Men movies, FOX Studios has announced the release dates for James Cameron’s four Avatar sequels. The official Avatar Facebook page announced that Avatar begins production on the movies and release the below image: Great to be working with the best team in the business! Avatar takes flight as we begin concurrent
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Check out a behind-the-scenes look at Pandora: The World of Avatar, which is coming this Summer as part of Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort. Info: Coming in 2017, Disney’s Animal Kingdom park will introduce the latest member of the Disney Parks family: Pandora – The World of AVATAR! Featuring magnificent floating mountains and an iconic nighttime
Coming out of CinemanCon, Fox Studios’ presentation saw a slew of announcements regarding Deadpool, Avatar and more. New footage from X-Men: Apocalypse, Independence Day: Resurgence and Assassin’s Creed was also shown off.
Details include:
Deadpool 2 is officially green lit, with Ryan Reynolds and the original creative team returning (director Tim Miller and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick). No release date has been announced just yet.
X-Men: Apocalypse footage confirms Magneto is Quicksilver’s father; shows Mystique as having a leader role; the movie takes place ten years after X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and the trailer shows the younger X-Men being in awe of Mystique.
Wolverine 3 didn’t get much attention other than an “Untitled Wolverine” title card shown on screen.
Gambit did not get mentioned at all.
Independence Day: Resurgence saw a new extended trailer released.
Assassin’s Creed trailer debuted.
Death Cure is still coming out in 2017.
Avatar will have four more sequels kicking off in 2018 (Avatar 2 is due Christmas 2018, Avatar 3 is due Christmas 2020, Avatar 4 is due Christmas 2022, Avatar 5 is due Christmas 2023). The official Avatar Facebook also posted an updated logo:
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Following the news that Disney has moved the release date for Star Wars: Episode VIII two weeks prior to the intended release date for Avatar 2, it’s now become known Fox Studios has delayed the release of the James Cameron sequel.
The Wrap reports Avatar 2 won’t be ready by Christmas 2017, which is the first of three new planned sequels.
No new release date has been announced, and it’s not known what the reason is for the delay. It is noted Fox never officially announced a release date, just that Cameron has stated he wanted the movie ready by then.
This marks the second delay for Avatar 2, which originally was panned to be released around Christmas 2016. Cameron will be filming the movies in New Zealand, with it said production is in very early stages.
Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana are signed on for the long haul, with potential plot details including much of it may be set on a moon of the planet Pandora and underwater.
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The battle of the box office continues as The Force is strong with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which has now passed The Avengers and Furious 7 on the all time worldwide box office gross.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens also sits at the #2 spot domestically ($742.2 million), just about $20 million shy of 2009’s Avatar ($760.5 million).
As it stands, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has a worldwide cume of $1.528 billion giving the movie the #4 spot overall, trailing Jurassic World ($1.669 billion), Titanic ($2.186 billion) and Avatar ($2.788 billion).
The Avengers finished with $1.159 billion worldwide, with $623.3 million in the U.S.
Other notable recent records for Star Wars: The Force Awakens includes:
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens scored the second best January weeked (shy of Avatar).
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the fastest film to cross $700 million in the U.S. – doing so in only 16 days – compared to Avatar‘s 72 days.
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens has also broken at least 40 records:
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(via Amazon’s Box Office Mojo)
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Check out a gatefold image from Wired for the 40th Anniversary of LucasFilm Industrial Light & Magic featuring some of the well known characters and creators from the various movies ILM has worked on.
We see characters from Star Wars, where the old meets the new with Yoda and the new bot from The Force Awakens, BB-8, in addition to George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and JJ Abrams; a Velociraptor from Jurassic Park, and Steven Spielberg and ET. That also looks to be Ant-Man standing on the “I.”
The second image features Bumblebee and Michael Bay from the Transformers franchise; Star Wars: Episode VIII director Rian Johnson; Ron Howard; Guillermo del Toro; a T-1000 Terminator, and Rango.
The third image features the Hulk and Iron Man from the Avengers; Lynwen Brennan of Avatar; Gore Verbinski with Davey Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean; Colin Trevorrow of Jurassic World, and Duncan Jones of Warcraft, in addition to Slimer from Ghosbusters.
Industrial Light & Magic started when Fox finally greenlit Star Wars by giving George Lucas $25,000 to finish the screenplay; however, Fox had no special effects division of their own – so Lucas went out and created one.
“Industrial Light & Magic was born in a sweltering warehouse behind the Van Nuys airport in the summer of 1975.”
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Disney has released a behind-the-scenes look at their new Avatar theme park with director James Cameron getting an inside look.
“I think one of the things that people loved about the movie is that they felt as if they had visited Pandora,” Cameron told Disney. “Now, thanks to Disney’s amazing Imagineers, people are going to truly experience Pandora firsthand. From the details in the plants to the production and design, extraordinary thought and care has gone into this entire world. The teams have really created something special, and it’s not going to be like anything else.”
The Avatar theme park is part of Disney’s Animal Kindgom and is thought to open by the time Avatar 2 is released, which is December 25, 2017.
