Avatar Trailer and Pre-Release Buzz

[J_UNTITLED]

Hit the below link to check out what appear to be containers holding a teaser trailer of sorts for James Cameron's highly-anticipated 3-D sci-fi epic "Avatar."


There's speculation that it may be attached to next month's "The Day the Earth Stood Still" remake but that's yet to be confirmed.


http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2008/1...soon-pics.html

[LynxFX]

Pretty interesting, but a 4 minute teaser??

If it is true that this will be attached to The Day the Earth Stood Still expect it's opening weekend box office tally to have an asterik next to it, just like Meet Joe Black with the first Phantom Menace trailer.

Can't wait to see it though.

[EricJ]

So...this isn't Cameron's original "Virtual-reality world" script which was how the movie got its title in the first place?

[Sussudio]

leave it to cameron to come up with the longest trailer ever created

....i can't wait!!

[J_UNTITLED]

Originally Posted by DoYouBlu

leave it to cameron to come up with the longest trailer ever created

....i can't wait!!

I think it's much more likely a specially put-together clip from the film -- not a real "teaser" in the true sense of the term.

[Midnightsailor]

I hope this is real.

[J_UNTITLED]

Click here to check out (i.e. download) DGA Quarterly's interview with helmer James Cameron on his much-hyped 3-D sci-fi epic-er "Avatar."

[J_UNTITLED]

Click here to check out Total Film's exclusive with James Cameron on eleven particular tidbits regarding his much-hyped 3-D sci-fi "Avatar."

[Sussudio]

awesome!! thanks for posting J

[browinie]

Originally Posted by snippet

Cameron's Avatar, due in December, could be the thing that forces theaters to convert to digital. Spielberg predicts it will be the biggest 3-D live-action film ever. More than a thousand people have worked on it, at a cost in excess of $300 million, and it represents digital filmmaking's bleeding edge. Cameron wrote the treatment for it in 1995 as a way to push his digital-production company to its limits. ("We can't do this," he recalled his crew saying. "We'll die.") He worked for years to build the tools he needed to realize his vision. The movie pioneers two unrelated technologies--e-motion capture, which uses images from tiny cameras rigged to actors' heads to replicate their expressions, and digital 3-D.

Avatar is filmed in the old "Spruce Goose" hangar, the 16,000-sq.-ft. space where Howard Hughes built his wooden airplane. The film is set in the future, and most of the action takes place on a mythical planet, Pandora. The actors work in an empty studio; Pandora's lush jungle-aquatic environment is computer-generated in New Zealand by Jackson's special-effects company, Weta Digital, and added later.

I couldn't tell what was real and what was animated--even knowing that the 9-ft.-tall blue, dappled dude couldn't possibly be real. The scenes were so startling and absorbing that the following morning, I had the peculiar sensation of wanting to return there, as if Pandora were real.

Cameron wasn't surprised. One theory, he says, is that 3-D viewing "is so close to a real experience that it actually triggers memory creation in a way that 2-D viewing doesn't." His own theory is that stereoscopic viewing uses more neurons. That's possible. After watching all that 3-D, I was a bit wiped out. I was also totally entertained.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/.../

[xtop]

tell me they aren't spending 300 million for that

[tbizzle]

WOW. December seems so far away

[browinie]

Originally Posted by xtop

[IMG]http://www.ncta.com/images/cache/633702086996900000CableProgram3866Avatar.jpg[IMG]

tell me they aren't spending 300 million for that

No way dude. Take that flithy picture out of here please. This is an original James Cameron movie.

[Blu As Hell]

Originally Posted by xtop

tell me they aren't spending 300 million for that

Nah, M. Night Shyamalan is writing, directing and producing that one.

[xtop]

oh good..i was like wtf...they're spending that money on a childrens cartoon??

[tommyboy81]

Spielberg? Cameron?

[Astalder]

I have the same gut feeling about this movie that I did about Indiana Jones 4 after Star Wars Episodes 1-3. I know this isn't Lucas, but a part of me thinks Cameron is this film's Lucas, with another massive disconnect with the viewing public.

[icyteddy]

HMMM....just wondering could Avatar be James Cameron's next Titanic? Or could it even out gross Titanic domestically and worldwide?

[dvd_mazter]

That is a crazy budget.

I can't wait for Avatar just to see if it is going to be one of the greatest Sci-fi epics ever or a huge bomb. Personally with Cameron directing it, I have a feeling this movie will be a massive success.

Now, only if we could get a trailer soon

[Petra_Kalbrain]

I'm curious if for no other reason than to see the next stage of evolution in cinematic techniques! That sh!t sounds ludicrous!!!