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‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ composer James Horner dead after plane crash

The composer of Titanic, Braveheart, Avatar, and The Amazing Spider-Man has died after a plane crash earlier today. James Horner, known for writing the famous Celine Dion song for Titanic, was pronounced dead after his plane crashed on Monday. He was not accounted for in the crash, but his assistant later confirmed that the songwriter …

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James Cameron has plans for a fifth ‘Avatar’ film, prequel coming to Cirque du Soleil

Have you been waiting patiently for more Avatar movies since the first one came out in 2009? Well, you will have your fill in the coming years as James Cameron looks to possibly add more adventures to the predicted slate of films. Hey U Guys caught up with the composer of the films, James Horner, …

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The Definitive Best Picture Losers

#20. The Exorcist (1973) Lost to: The Sting Crammed in between two Best Picture wins for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Godfather” films was an interesting little year that rewarded another pairing of Robert Redford and Paul Newman (trivia: “The Sting’s” Julia Phillips is the first time female producer to ever win Best Picture). The other big landmark …

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It’s Hard Out Here for an Original Franchise: ‘Pacific Rim’’s Plight

Not two weeks ago, famed auteur and Pacific Rim director Guillermo Del Toro set the internet ablaze when he announced the confirmation of a follow up to his 2013 robots vs. monsters film Pacific Rim and dated Pacific Rim 2 for April 7, 2017. The biggest surprise wasn’t the official announcement of the sequel though, …

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‘Maleficent’ boasts a memorable lead performance and little else

Maleficent Written by Linda Woolverton Directed by Robert Stromberg USA, 2014 Every year or so, apropos of very little, the Walt Disney Company will showcase a new series of ads courtesy of acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz, in which a celebrity plays one of the company’s iconic human characters, whether it’s Jessica Chastain as Princess Merida …

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Extended Thoughts on ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Alice in Wonderland Directed by Tim Burton Written by Linda Woolverton Starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Stephen Fry, Helena Bonham Carter Alice in Wonderland is a truly inexplicable, baffling, painful film to watch. I don’t know what anyone involved in the film was thinking in making it. Did they want to honor the vision from …

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Movies From An Alternate Universe

A while back we posted an article titled Alternate Universe Movie Posters, a collection of some really amazing alternate movie posters including one for a Halloween film starring Kim Novak and Robert Mitchum. Recently Peter Stults was inspired by those poster designs and decided to move forward with the theme by creating images for what …

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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Oscars (part 2)

I will leave the discussion of what/who won/didn’t win and why/why not to others.  I have only one concern:  Did it work? For the now befuddled, let me recap what I laid out back in January when the 2011 Academy Award nominations were announced: A year earlier, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences …

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2010 Box Office: Signs, Portents and Omens

The 2010 year-end box office tallies are in and it was good news/bad news/worse news/how-much-worse-can-it-get? news for Hollywood. The good news: The industry rang up $10.2 billion domestic last year; down a bit from $10.65 in 2009, but still enough to make 2010 the second-best year ever for ticket income. The bad news is box …

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Avatar Special Edition Photos Released

On August 27th, James Cameron’s 3D blockbuster Avatar will be getting a limited re-release with nine extra minutes of footage attached.  Cameron recently did an interview with MarketSaw and in it he went in depth about the footage that he added.  Hit the jump for more of my thoughts and the complete photos. These photos …

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If I Ran the Oscars

This may be the year the Oscars get out of their ratings slump. The expanding of the Best Picture category from five to ten was a smart move. Its big enough to include red state crowd pleasers (The Blind Side), fan boy fare (District 9), the biggest movie ever (Avatar), and at least one ballsy …

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2010 OSCAR NOMINATIONS

The Oscar telecast will air on ABC on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at 8 pm EST. Best Picture Avatar dir. James Cameron Stars: Sam Worthington Sigourney Weaver Michelle Rodriguez The Hurt Locker 2009 dir. Kathryn Bigelow Starring Jeremy Renner Anthony Mackie Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire dir. Lee Daniels Stars: Gabourey ‘Gabby’ …

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Avatar takes another weekend

Avatar has taken another box office weekend for the 7th straight week in a row with $31.3M while grossing $596M.  Mel Gibson’s thiller, Edge of Darkness came in second at 17.2 M followed by the romantic comedy When in Rome 12.4M. The Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson’s Tooth Fairy brought home $10M while theater goers seemed …

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Landmark week for James Cameron

This weekend’s box office take on the soaringly popular James Cameron directed Avatar came to an “estimated $68.3 million in the States during it’s third weekend out, destroying the previous record of $45 million set by Spider-Man 3.” Astonishingly, “This weekend’s box office total of $68.3 million will be almost $30 million larger than the all-time …

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Avatar (Mild Spoilers)

Cameron has accomplished that rare task, to inject a real sense of magic and spectacle sorely lacking in big budget movies, aptly bookmarking the prologue and finale of the film with the image of eyes opening, an apt cinematic metaphor for his triumphant return to the multiplexes. Avatar James Cameron 2009 Ferngully with guns. Dances …

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The 25 Most Anticipated Films for the Rest of 2009

Originally Posted in Creative Loafing. 2009 is already halfway over, and the fall movie season (with all the originality and Oscar-bait it has to offer) is just around the corner. What follows is my list of the 25 films I’m most interested in seeing in the second half of 2009. Read all the way to …

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Film News: 24 Minutes of Cameron’s Avatar Screened / Fincher to Direct Facebook Movie? / Antichrist to Open in Time for Halloween

24 minutes of James Cameron’s Avatar was screened for the very first time to 1,000 European industry attendees at the Cinema Expo International in Amsterdam.  Cameron’s decade long passion project has been touted as the film that will change how we watch movies forever.  Now that is one hell of an expectation to live up …

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