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Wait, Is Tyler Perry Jewish?

Natasha VC · 07/16/09 11:05AM

Between the Wizards and the Avatar there's a lot of money floating through Hollywood right now. Vast riches unknown by the average shmo! Sure glad we have the Jews to take care of it for us.

James Cameron Attempts To Explain The 'Avatar' Science Behind Blowing Your Freaking Minds

Seth Abramovitch · 08/07/08 01:00PM

James Cameron's upcoming feature Avatar exists not merely to bring a motion-captured Michelle Rodriguez to a wider audience than ever before, but—if we are to believe what he tells us—to singlehandedly revolutionize the way we make, see, and even perceive of the movies. THR braved an interview with the director, who's too busy playing with his new toys to worry about losing his top-grossing-movie title to some gravel-voiced bat-creep. (Besides—by the time Avatar rolls around, the sweeping social revolution that accompanies it will render old notions of currency and spending completely obsolete. We'll be ranking the weekend box office in levels of Braincell Conversion Osmosis, or some other inconceivable economic unit of measurement.) But we digress; let's let Cameron describe some of the really-complicated-sounding rabbits he's got stuffed in his wizard hat:

When you have the world by the balls, you can foist crap like Vista on them

Jackson West · 05/21/08 06:00PM

Director James Cameron speaking at Microsoft's advance08 advertising conference today in Seattle, pitching his new flick Avatar and making a menacing gesture. Can you suggest a better caption? Do so in the comments, and the winning one will become the new headline on this post. Friday's winner, in a close one: Tim Faulkner, for "Master Lodwick has trained his young padawan well in the ways of the fameball.." (Photo by AP/Stephen Brashear)

Paramount, Fox To Fight Over Whether Cameron Or Shyamalan Gets To Make An 'Avatar' Movie

mark · 01/09/07 12:23PM

Mere hours after Fox shocked the world by announcing that director James Cameron had ended a decade of well-publicized indecision by choosing a project called Avatar as his long-awaited follow-up to Titanic, Paramount proudly revealed that it was getting into the M. Night Shyamalan business by hiring the master of gotcha! cinema to adapt a Nickelodeon TV series into a possible movie franchise. The name of this high-profile undertaking? You probably already see where this is going: Avatar: The Last Airbender. The projects have nothing in common except the small matter of their nearly identical titles, but both studios are already claiming sole ownership of the name, according to Var: