James Cameron's "Avatar" Thread v.4

[mrvlknight21]

yeah, the CGI, the 3D camera, and the Fusion camera.


http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=avatarspecialedition.htm
Weekend Estimate

$4,000,000

Lifetime Gross: $753,766,139

Yeah it was definitely tops in respect to those things.

I stopped reading right there.

LOL. I understand, not the best way to describe it, but whatever. You didnt miss anything anyways, by not reading Im sure. t:

 

[Kane52630]

the special edition gets a release date

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/3948/avatar_ce.html

Disc Details

Technical Specs

• 3-Disc Set
• Extended Cut (16 Additional Minutes)

Video Resolution/Codec

• 1080p/TBA

Aspect Ratio(s)

• 1.78:1

Audio Formats

• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Subtitles/Captions

• TBA

Supplements

• A Message from Pandora
• Unfinished Material

Avatar: Collector's Edition (Blu-ray)



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20th Century Fox / 2009 / 174 Minutes / Rated PG-13
Street Date: November 16, 2010
List Price: TBA

This disc has not yet been reviewed. The following information has been provided by the distributor.
Genres: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama

Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez
Director: James Cameron

Plot Synopsis: A reluctant hero. An epic journey. A choice between the life he left behind and the incredible new world he's learned to call home. Return to James Cameron's Avatar - the greatest adventure of all time.

hmm, interesting boxart

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=5057

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[ironwez20]

Meh not feeling it to much but i will still buy lol.

 

[dark_b]

hmm, interesting boxart

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=5057

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the boxart is amazing. so simple yet so powerfull. a simple hand .

 

[bonoferox]

Definite buy. I was worried the special edition would only be the 3D compatible that was rumoured a while back.

 

[Kane52630]

now this is good news, very good news.

Avatar Collector's Edition Blu-ray with 45 Minutes of Deleted Material

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=5056

During an interview with MTV, James Cameron dropped some more bits of information regarding the still-unannounced Collector's Edition Blu-ray release of Avatar. The Canadian-born filmmaker revealed that the release will include 45 minutes of deleted, unfinished footage - and that's not counting the 16 extra minutes of the Blu-ray extended cut (which will include an opening scene set on Earth).

The economics dictated the amount of footage that could be finished and integrated with the movie. "We got the budget to finish these nine minutes [in the theatrical re-release], and we got the budget to finish the 16-minute longer version," explained Cameron, but beyond that, "it didn't make sense to finish all the extra CG and visual effects." This footage will thus be presented in rougher form, as rendered in real time by the virtual camera, whose quality is described by Cameron as similar to that of "an old video game."

One of the scenes that did make it to the Blu-ray extended cut is the much talked about opening sequence set on a dystopian Earth, which is about four and a half minutes long. Cameron said separately to The Oregonian: "If you buy the box set in November, you can sit down, and in a continuous screening of the film, watch it with the Earth opening." The studio spent about a million dollars to finish the visual effects on that scene.

He also warned that, in the extended version, "it just takes a long time to get the movie started and that one must "be sort of predisposed to like the movie like a fan."

Although there are things "you will never see," Cameron confirmed that the upcoming "big box set" that his team is now working on will "definitely satisfy the appetite of even the most hard-core fan."

 

[Downhere]

Good thing I didn't buy the previous release.

 

[dark_b]

this is how the previz looks like. this is how hte 40 minutes will look like. good enough to get a sense what was going on.

 

[Soapy]

I bought the first release, but I don't regret it. I've watched it plenty of times. This collector's edition is sounding incredible though.

One thing I don't understand is that Cameron keeps saying how the Earth scene slows the film down a lot. However, I felt that Avatar moved too fast in the beginning. It "gets to the point" right away, but perhaps to a fault. I think the movie would have been better off with more exposition in the beginning.

 

[Sentinel X]

I really love the boxart for the bluray. I wish they had used it as the teaser poster instead of that terribly drawn Neytiri poster

 

[Donut]

this is how the previz looks like. this is how hte 40 minutes will look like. good enough to get a sense what was going on.

Talk about being lazy & not finishing the rest of the footage. Cameron will milk this **** dry until there are over 50 different DVD & Blu Ray releases. They got enough footage for it I bet. The Avatar Re Releases will make the Star Wars Re Releases look sane

 

[Kane52630]

The Avatar Re Releases will make the Star Wars Re Releases look sane

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=releases&id=starwars4.htm

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=releases&id=starwars6.htm

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=releases&id=starwars5.htm

 

[Bunker]

How much will the collector's edition run? $30-ish maybe?

 

[Kane52630]

How much will the collector's edition run? $30-ish maybe?

its a 3 disc bluray set so I think its $30+ but on amazon I bet it will be close around $20-$25

 

[redhawk23]

any body have a list of the dvd specs?

 

[redhawk23]

Talk about being lazy & not finishing the rest of the footage. Cameron will milk this **** dry until there are over 50 different DVD & Blu Ray releases. They got enough footage for it I bet. The Avatar Re Releases will make the Star Wars Re Releases look sane

dude the money and time involved for just a special feature would be rediculous.

They finished up 16 or whatever minutes for the actual movie on the disk, can you really complaign that much.

 

[Figs]

dude the money and time involved for just a special feature would be rediculous.

They finished up 16 or whatever minutes for the actual movie on the disk, can you really complaign that much.

Is he complaining about the footage for the extras not looking as good as the actual film?

 

[spider-neil]

I wonder if it's 3 disks of actual content or if one of the disks is a dvd copy of the special edition?

 

[Kane52630]

I wonder if it's 3 disks of actual content or if one of the disks is a dvd copy of the special edition?

it says 3 bluray discs so I guess no digital copy disc thank god, its like wasting dvds when you can just give us the code and download it off online (which they are doing now)

 

[Solidus]

Hmmm wonder if it will be "tin"/Steel book. I heard someone saying something like that on the bluray.com forums.

 

[Passdom]

Talk about being lazy & not finishing the rest of the footage. Cameron will milk this **** dry until there are over 50 different DVD & Blu Ray releases. They got enough footage for it I bet. The Avatar Re Releases will make the Star Wars Re Releases look sane

Ummm lazy??? They already are finishing 16 minutes, thats already 10 million dollars worth! I doubt any other director has ever spent that much just for a DVD. And you want them to finish 45 minutes more? That would cost up to 30 million! Not to mention most of it stuff that Cameron cut for good

but no, they're greedy and lazy ...

 

[spider-neil]

it says 3 bluray discs so I guess no digital copy disc thank god, its like wasting dvds when you can just give us the code and download it off online (which they are doing now)

I actually wouldn't mind if one of the disks was a dvd, then I could through the disk away and replace it with the theatrical version of the movie.

 

[Donut]

Ummm lazy??? They already are finishing 16 minutes, thats already 10 million dollars worth! I doubt any other director has ever spent that much just for a DVD. And you want them to finish 45 minutes more? That would cost up to 30 million! Not to mention most of it stuff that Cameron cut for good

but no, they're greedy and lazy ...

James Cameron has more then enough money to %100 finish those shots

 

[Soapy]

James Cameron has more then enough money to %100 finish those shots

Ha! So you want him to fund the completion of those shots out of his own pocket? Even though he obviosly didn't want them in his movie? That's crazy. Not to mention they could recycle them in the future for another project.

 

[Figs]

Ha! So you want him to fund the completion of those shots out of his own pocket? Even though he obviosly didn't want them in his movie? That's crazy. Not to mention they could recycle them in the future for another project.

I'd just let it go. His argument gives him away as one of those spoiled fanboy types. That demand everything.

It's incredibly ridiculous when you think about it, wanting deleted scenes to be fixed up like the scenes from the movie...what's the point??