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Post by ML Fan on May 3, 2005 18:09:51 GMT -5
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Post by ML Fan on Jun 14, 2005 8:25:47 GMT -5
ABOUT TIME: Director James Cameron will either make Battle Angel or another project tentatively titled Project 880 his first big budget studio feature since Titanic sailed into the record books. Both films will be shot in 3-D with custom-designed high definition cameras. Filming is slated to start in December. Here's the link, www.eonline.com/News/firstlook.html
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Post by dzero on Jul 18, 2005 0:53:01 GMT -5
James Cameron was on tonights episode of Entourage playing himself. The lead character of the show is trying to score a part in Camerons next film. Pretty good, just a cameo. But all the characters talk about Cameron like he is a god , which is only fair .
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Post by dzero on Aug 9, 2005 11:04:35 GMT -5
James Cameron was on another ep of Entourage. There was a funny bit where an assistant had to come up to him and tell him some bad news, and the assistant was shaking in fear ;D ;D. It reminded me of when he directed Freak Nation all the interviews were asking JA and MW questions about if it was hard or intimidating to work for him . Also some new Cameron quotes about his next movie. Sound familiar to anyone??? He continues: "The main thrust is a love story between a human man and a female cyborg, and the film contains a range of characters from the fully human to the fully machine. I'm embracing the fact that human beings are amazingly adaptable. We've got a lot of flaws, but we're also pretty clever." enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/interviews/article304772.ece
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Post by Tweed Pants on Oct 18, 2005 10:59:00 GMT -5
William Gregory Lee is doing some mini series (at least i think it is), thats has possibley finished, i think it started earlier this month. I only found out about it through another fandom. Ihave seen a clip of it, lets just say i never thought i'd ever see our Zack bent over a couch like that! I would post screen caps - but this is a child friendly board!
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Post by dzero on Nov 3, 2005 9:32:08 GMT -5
James comments on his future projects. From comingsoon.net comingsoon.net/news/battleangelnews.php?id=11823"I'm directing two movies back-to-back and I've got two more lined up after that," he says. "Two movies using the same techniques, the same 3-D digital-camera system, the same virtual production studio. They're big projects." The newspaper says that the first will come out in the summer of 2007. The second in the summer of 2009. The first is likely to be Battle Angel, based on Yukito Kishiro's 12 popular Japanese graphic novels about a nymphette who morphs into an action heroine. The second film would be Project 880, while the third and fourth projects are unknown. What is known, however, is that Cameron won't be making Terminator 4 or True Lies 2, says The Times about the rumors.
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Post by dzero on Dec 3, 2005 15:40:56 GMT -5
Ain't it cool news posted this casting info on the next James Cameron movie, looks like they are doing a big search for a newcomer to play the lead, just like they did with DA. www.malifinncasting.com/JAMES CAMERON SEEKS NEW TALENT FOR A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Mali Finn Casting (Titanic, 8 Mile, The Matrix) is looking for fresh faces to star in a James Cameron film that begins principal photography Spring 2006. NO PRIOR FILM EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. However, voice, movement, and acting training are imperative. SEEKING: FEMALE LEAD: 16-mid 20s. Any ethnicity, including Caucasian. She moves and behaves with confidence and a sense of nobility. Lithe as a cat. Athletic and agile. She is a warrior. Graceful movement and an ear for languages and dialects are essential.
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Post by ML Fan on Dec 9, 2005 12:16:03 GMT -5
Thanks to Tweeter for the info. I found this on TV Online. It's an interview with Alimi Ballard, who's on Numb3rs. This is the part that's relevant, though: TVGuide.com: What do you think about your Dark Angel pal, Jessica Alba, becoming little Miss Thing? Ballard: We had a great time up there in Canada, shooting. Working with [Dark Angel creator] James Cameron and working with Michael Weatherly, whom I'd worked with on Loving — he ran me over in his Range Rover and I blackmailed him for money. [Laughs] And Jessica, she is a nice young lady. If it's what she wants to do, she'll be huge. She could go off and be a rocket scientist, that's how talented I found her to be. Santa Barbara Film Fest to Honor Stars Dec 9, 2005 Next year's Santa Barbara film festival will honor "Titanic" director James Cameron and stars of some of this year's most celebrated films. "King Kong" star Naomi Watts, "Capote" star Philip Seymour Hoffman and "Brokeback Mountain" star Heath Ledger will be honored alongside George Clooney, previously announced as the recipient of the Modern Master Award. "What I really like about this group of people is the range of talent and achievement," said Roger Durling, director of the 2006 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. "Serving different audiences is what the festival is all about." Once Watts' participation was confirmed, Wednesday, Durling was so "stoked" he couldn't sleep, he said. "I'm working on adrenaline today," he said Thursday. The 21st annual festival will take place Feb. 2 through 12. Hoffman will receive the Riviera Award, which recognizes an actor "who has done outstanding work for many years," Durling said. Watts will receive the Montecito Award in recognition of several standout performances, and Ledger will receive the Breakthrough Performance of the Year for "Brokeback Mountain." Cameron will receive the Attenborough Award for Excellence in Nature Filmmaking. Though best known for "Titanic" and "The Terminator," Cameron has worked recently on making films about the ocean floor, including "Mysteries of the Titanic" and the recent "Aliens of the Deep." Here's the link, entertainment.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=209325
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Post by ML Fan on Jan 4, 2006 11:40:39 GMT -5
Nana Vistor is now a regular cast member on the ABC Family series, "Wildfire."
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Post by x318 on Jan 15, 2006 22:11:39 GMT -5
Ok not sure where to post this but here it is...has anyone seen the new show Invasion...well it's new over here. And the bro in it is the guy that targeted the virus in china town and brought the ashes of Theo to Jam Pony.
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Post by dutch on Jan 16, 2006 1:39:04 GMT -5
Ok not sure where to post this but here it is...has anyone seen the new show Invasion...well it's new over here. And the bro in it is the guy that targeted the virus in china town and brought the ashes of Theo to Jam Pony. I have noticed that too X318. I don't know his name but he has the same silly hairdo as when he was the scientist who spread the virus in China Town.
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Post by dutch on Jan 16, 2006 1:40:01 GMT -5
Nana Vistor is now a regular cast member on the ABC Family series, "Wildfire." She also was a regular on "Star Trek Deep Space Nine"
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 4, 2006 16:29:06 GMT -5
James Cameron's Game Theory Get kids hooked on a multiplayer game, then show them the movie James Cameron has transported film audiences to worlds inhabited by carnivorous aliens, time-traveling assassins, and passengers on an ill-fated ocean liner. Now the director of Aliens, The Terminator, and Titanic is trying something different. Holed up at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif., Cameron is working on the screenplay for Project 880, which he describes as "completely crazy, balls-out sci-fi." If it gets produced, it could be the first major Hollywood project that audiences will experience first as a multiplayer game on the Net, and only later on the silver screen. Compare Prices and Save MP3 players TVs Digital Cameras Laptops Movies with game tie-ins have been around since the days of Atari (ATAR ), but the games usually follow the plot. With Project 880 (a working title), which is still at least two years off, gamers could be exploring Cameron's virtual world for weeks before they head for a theater to learn the story. And the game could spawn whole communities of diehards such as those who spend every waking hour immersed in EverQuest, World of Warcraft, and other massively multiplayer online games, known as MMOGs. "So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level," Cameron says. "We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world" (see BW Online, 2/13/06, "Syncing Hollywood and Gamers"). What would an MMOG bring a mogul? Cash, for one thing. World of Warcraft, a J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired fantasy game from Vivendi Universal (V ) that boasts 5.5 million users worldwide, brought in about $300 million last year in sales and subscriptions, figures David Cole, president of game researcher DFC Intelligence. And while MMOGs make up just 7% of the $28 billion game market, they may be the most addictive niche. A Stanford University researcher who surveyed 3,000 MMOG denizens found that the median player was immersed for 20 hours a week, vs. seven to eight hours for gamers at consoles. SCI-FI REALITY SHOW Cameron has more than a passing interest in simulation and next-generation games. A former physics major at California State University, he once served on the board of NASA. Aiming to shoot all his future films in 3-D, he has helped pioneer a whole suite of 3-D cameras, tools to capture actors' performances and import them into simulations, and various post-production techniques. Cameron now sits on the board of Multiverse, a startup that helps developers create their own games in return for a cut of the subscription revenues. "You're seeing what hundreds of thousands of people in this game environment can create," he says. Other big directors are glomming onto MMOGs. Imagine Entertainment, the company run by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer that created the TV show 24, has teamed up with producer Jim Banister, Halo creator Alex Seropian, and others to develop a sci-fi reality show called XQuest. If it flies, contestants will occupy a cramped spaceship-like module for a month. Its flight simulators will subject them to rocket-like conditions, including six Gs of thrust. Players will ply the galaxy while following the rough contours of a plot. Outside the ship, online gamers will track the crew's mission and ultimately board their own PC-based spaceships to rendezvous with contestants in shared, simulated space. The next season's cast, in theory, is chosen from those who show the most skill playing the game at home. For studios, MMOGs may not be much of a hedge against a fickle box office. Online gamers are famously choosy. Most games fail to bring in more than 20,000 players, yet good titles can cost $10 million to $20 million to develop. The player pool is mostly boys and young men. And the medium has genre limitations: Don't look for MMOGs based on Brokeback Mountain or Walk the Line anytime soon. Still, for the growing hordes of gamers, MMOGs may be ripe for a crossover. "You are exploring the interaction of technology and the human imagination," says Cameron, "and you play it out in a highly competitive, fast-paced interaction." Movies can show what imagination looks like. MMOGs can show how it feels on the inside. Here's the link, www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_07/b3971073.htm
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 18, 2006 3:34:27 GMT -5
He'll Be Back Almost a decade after ''Titanic,'' James Cameron crows about his two new movies, and why they're like nothing you've ever seen by Degen Pener BLOODY GOOD Cameron, with Arnold Schwarzenegger on the ''T2'' set in 1991 After nine years, three documentaries, one Entourage stint, and about 15,000 Celine Dion jokes, the shock isn't that James Cameron is back. It's that his first feature since Titanic won't be Battle Angel, the sci-fi-meets-anime project (based on Yukito Kishiro's Japanese graphic novels) that Cameron fans have been anticipating for years. ''We've moved Project 880 into first position,'' Cameron told Entertainment Weekly at the Santa Barbara film festival. So just what is Project 880? Don't ask Cameron: ''It's as classified,'' he says, ''as the Manhattan Project.'' (That secrecy hasn't stopped some industry observers from guessing that 880 is actually a version of Avatar, the director's oft-rumored love story set against interplanetary war.) Whatever it is, Cameron is ready to shoot 880 at Twentieth Century Fox — where he's also preparing Battle Angel. Neither film has been completely cast, but 880 is now slated for '07 and Angel is set for '09. ''We couldn't do one unless we do both,'' says Cameron. ''They use the same technology.'' And that's where things get really cool. Cameron is no stranger to cutting-edge gadgetry — he's been on the forefront of the CGI revolution since Terminator 2. Now he's using realistic-looking motion-capture techniques like those that made The Lord of the Rings' Gollum so eerily lifelike, and shooting both new movies in brand-spanking-new high-definition 3-D. The catch? If the movies are to be distributed in 3-D format, he hopes to have at least 1,000 theaters converted to digital projection. (You'll view high-def 3-D through an updated version of the old glasses, but regular 2-D will be available.) Don't take these release dates to the bank, however. ''We don't want to get jammed up like on Titanic,'' he says, refusing to rule out the possibility that Project 880 could move to 2008. ''The consensus has been we will serve no wine before its time.'' (Additional reporting by Hannah Tucker) (Posted:02/17/06) Here's the link, img.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/060217/115946__james_l.jpg
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 1, 2006 15:25:03 GMT -5
Cameron Confirms Project 880 is Avatar Source: Ain't-It-Cool-News March 1, 2006 Ain't-It-Cool-News got to chat with Titanic helmer James Cameron, who confirmed that Project 880 is indeed Avatar, a love story set against interplanetary war. That film is targeted for a summer 2007 release, while Cameron's Battle Angel, based on Yukito Kishiro's Japanese graphic novels, is looking at a summer 2009 release. Here's a clip: PROJECT 880 is AVATAR, or as he put it, "a retooled version of AVATAR"... Now he still doesn't know if it is going to be BATTLE ANGEL ALITA or AVATAR that comes next. You see deep within the N.S.A. like security of LIGHTSTORM, Jim has been constructing a Virtual Production Studio completely unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. Within that space are two separate teams concurrently prepping and getting ready to shoot back to back essentially over a 3 year span, BATTLE ANGEL ALITA and AVATAR. Here's the link, www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13389Here's the link to the full legnth interview, www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22599
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