MakingOf Provides a Sneak Peek at James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game

AWESOME IN CONVERSATION: In an interview with MakingOf - Kevin Shortt of Ubisoft Canada, the Lead Scriptwriter and Story Designer of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game, shares for the first time new information regarding the title’s gameplay, the actors who participated in the project, and the intensive writing process.

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Go behind-the-scenes of “Avatar” & how they used performance capture technology

Go behind the scenes of “Avatar” and see how the film was made through the revolutionary performance capture technology directed by James Cameron, starring Sam Worthingon and Sigourney Weaver.

Today the Los Angeles Times has printed information about who turned down a role in James Cameron’s Avatar. Who turns down a lead role in a James Cameron movie, really? Apparently Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal. Both actors were approached about playing the role of Jake Sully in the film and turned down the offer. The most interesting part of the story is that Sam Worthington, an unknown actor at the time, was Cameron’s first choice for the role, but he was forced to offer the role to some bigger marketable stars “to placate the studio chiefs at Fox.” Cameron admits that he doesn’t know why Damon and Gyllenhaal turned down the role, but admits that he really didn’t “go out and try to woo them”.

- Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal Turned Down Lead Role in Avatar

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According to this article from the AVClub, James Cameron will be giving us a new, fantastic point of view of his two top-grossing films.  Sometime in 2012, in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of (you guessed it) the launch of the unsinkable ship, Titanic will be released in 3D.  That’s all the details on that so far, but don’t despair: the hit movie Avatar, which some of you may remember from pre-Alice in Wonderland days, should see a re-release this fall with new enhanced 3D.

The sequel to Avatar should be out in 2011.

Edit:  There’s no news of a sequel, and that links to the upcoming Smurfs movie.  Apologies.

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The girl in the white is hiding unobtainium is that fanny pack. 

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epic is a shortcoming. 

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Director James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet on the set of the Titanic 

‘Sanctum 3D’ Press Conference

Watch James Cameron, director Alister Grierson, and writer Andrew Wight at the press conference for their thriller, ‘Sanctum’ as they talk about filming in 3D and the production of the film.

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