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Hollywood has a mixed history with cyberpunk, to say the least — so the news of a movie version of Richard K. Morgan's ultra-noir Altered Carbon getting fast-tracked makes us a bit nervous. So much of what's great about that book is the intense violence and weird sex work... and then there's the long torture sequence, which would be hard to get right without looking like torture porn. We love this book about a world where people can download their personalities and memories into newly cloned (or rented) bodies, but could it work as a movie? More »
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Someone gave Keanu Reeves a camera crew, and sent him out hunting for famous directors to carry on the great debate of digital versus film. Watch film greats such as Martin Scorsese, James Cameron and Steven Soderbergh talk movies — it's kind of a rare treat to see all these directors share their opinions on digital movie-making (especially with the entire 3D debate). Get a sneak peek at the documentary Side By Side now with the first released trailer. More »
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Ever since the release of Avatar, James Cameron has been working to preserve Earth's own Pandora with the Achuar people from the Amazon. Last night at Popular Mechanics' Breakthrough Awards — where Cameron won the Breakthrough Leadership Award for his contributions to filmmaking — we asked the director how his many trips to the Amazon have influenced his sequel to his extraterrestrial blockbuster. More »
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Next summer, Spider-Man gets a fresh start, with a brand new reboot starring Andrew Garfield. But this won't be just a second chance for Spidey — the web-slinging hero has had plenty of second and third chances on the big screen already. More »
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A fifth (and maybe sixth) installment in the Terminator series seemed like a questionable notion, until maverick producer Megan Ellison (who helped produce True Grit) won a bidding war for the film rights. Since then, we've been cautiously optimistic — but the next Terminator sequel keeps having setbacks. More »
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Audiences were depressed that they couldn't join Avatar's society of azure Snagglepusses. Trust James Cameron to be a crazy-eyed visionary and give the masses what they want. More »
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We recently saw how James Cameron built the undersea set for the 1987 filming of The Abyss at the unfinished Cherokee Nuclear Plant outside of Gaffney, South Carolina. More »
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When James Cameron was directing The Abyss in 1987, he opted to film the underwater at the unfinished Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant near Gaffney, South Carolina. After filming wrapped, the set stood basically unattended for 20 years, allowing urban explorers to sneak in. More »
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The fall TV season is beginning, and that means one thing — you're finally going to get to see the TV pilots that the networks have been sweating over for a year. Most of them will totally suck — even if the shows they launch wind up being good. But a few of them will be amazing, full of killer action and interesting characters. More »
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Everybody knows that villains are cooler than heroes — it's just the way things are. But if a villain hangs around long enough, sometimes he or she gets reformed and joins the good guys. Usually, this results in a tragic loss of coolness. More »
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James Cameron and Sam Worthington are back in the saddle together, making more huge budget productions. Their latest venture? A film called Myth. More »
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Due to some recent indiscretions, Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to pull the plug on his resurrected acting career. Which everybody's assuming means no Terminator 5. But wait — there are plenty of great ways to make a Terminator without Arnie. More »
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Yesterday, Transformers director Michael Bay teamed with James Cameron, film's biggest advocate for all things 3D, to discuss why Dark of the Moon made the jump to 3D...and they showed us tons of new footage to help make their case. More »
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Indie film financier Megan Ellison has started an all-out bidding war for the Terminator movie rights against Lionsgate. Which means the new Terminator movie could actually be made a studio that isn't merely out to sell licensing rights to Slurpee. More »
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Sex and Zen 3-D: Extreme Ecstasy is supposedly the first erotic movie made in 3-D. And in its opening week, it's beaten Avatar's record for one-day box office in Hong Kong. What's this movie's secret? More »
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James Cameron may have helped reinvent 3D film-making with Avatar, but he won't get to do the same for the space program. NASA has turned down his offer to put two 3D cameras on its next Mars rover. More »
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The Marines vs. aliens war story that is Battle: Los Angeles may not be a modern classic, but it does do one thing that's unusual (even admirable) for action movies, particularly scifi action movies: it takes its premise absolutely seriously. More »
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Guillermo del Toro's journey into the heart of H.P. Lovecraft's eldritch horror is really happening, a producer tells io9. At the Mountains of Madness begins filming in June? Could this be the Lovecraftian film that actually destroys your mind? More »
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We've got an exclusive video clip from FX legend Steve Johnson's archives featuring the angelic underwater alien puppets of James Cameron's The Abyss. Listen as Johnson describes with disbelief how Gale Anne Hurd and Cameron decided to hire a "23-year-old-moron" to design the alien puppet that the entire feature hinged upon. And watch the practical creatures swim across your screen. More »
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James Cameron is already talking about his perferred release dates for Avatar 2 and 3. And even though he plans on working on the films back-to-back, he wants a year-long break in between releases. So, what characters will be back? More »
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Pop culture fans may be slightly perplexed by the new even-more-extra-long Avatar collector's edition DVD, but political protesters are getting more into James Cameron's tale of the blue people's eco-revolt. Is cosplay the future of political protest? More »
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A rough Avatar deleted scene shows what happens after the end of the movie. And apparently some of our friendly blue Na'vis have been makin' with the Tsaheylu because somebody's preggers. Check it out! More »
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James Cameron's made a deal to make the two more Avatar films with Fox. The sequels will be released December 2014 and December 2015, and Cameron will make these self-contained films with original Avatar producer Jon Landau. More »
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Check out Sigourney Weaver's screen test for the part of Ripley in Alien. Nailed it — damn do we miss this brand of asskicking female hero. The clip is part of the Alien anthology box set, out Oct. 26th. More »
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Tonight the Scream Awards debuted a brand new, never-before-seen deleted scene from James Cameron's Avatar. Get a glimpse of the dystopian future Earth and a bad-ass Jake Sully who kicks serious ass (and gets his ass kicked) from his wheelchair. More »
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We spent five minutes talking with legendary science fiction heroine Sigourney Weaver. Find out what science fiction story she's most interested in playing now, what's next for Avatar's Dr. Grace, and why Ridley Scott needs to reinvent the Alien franchise. More »
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Our neon-tinged dystopian future cities used to be Tokyo, but now they've gone Vegas. Or so it would seem, from our first glimpses of Jake Sully on Earth from November's three-hour extended Avatar DVD. Which may actually be worth getting. More »
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The trailer for Axel Braun's This Ain't Avatar XXX 3D is out, and it looks like Avatar if the film had been filmed in the style of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but you know, with diddling. Trailer is nudity-free. More »
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Get ready to "make tsaheylu" in your trousers. Brand new images from the Hustler Avatar porn spoof, This Ain't Avatar XXX, have been released. We give them props for showing naked avatars in the hibernation vats — sexy! Possibly NSFW. More »
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James Cameron is pumped to produce Guillermo del Toro's Lovecraft adaptation At The Mountain of Madness "It's going to be an epically scaled horror film, and we haven't seen anything like that in a really long time... since Aliens." [Wired] More »
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In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Cameron, whose directorial debut was Piranha 2: The Swarming, was asked whether he had any nostalgia for the Piranha franchise. Cameron said no, and claimed the flick's bad for 3-D cinema. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5624890&view=rss&microfeed=true Over at io9's Facebook page, we asked if people were going to see the new re-release of James Cameron's Avatar, with the nine extra minutes of footage. The response? An overwhelming shrug. As Prince-Toddy English put it, "If nine minutes were edited they were cut for a reason." What do you think? Are you stoked to see a longer Avatar, or has Pandora fatigue set in? More »
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One thing everybody knows about Terminators: They always keep coming, no matter what you do. But the next installment of Skynet's plan to destroy humanity will come in a surprising form: a PG-13 animated sequel to the original Terminator. More »
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James Cameron explains his new Avatar novel, plus how he's changed the second movie's ending. Check out new sneak peeks from Eureka, Warehouse 13 and True Blood. Plus Transformers 3, Fringe, The Walking Dead, Chuck, The Retreat, Monsters, and more! More »
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GDT and James Cameron together — talk about two great tastes that taste great together! The director and producer are rumored to be teaming up for H.P. Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness. Cameron will bring the equipment, GDT the heart. [Deadline] More »
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When Avatar was still in theaters, protestors dressed up as the imperialism-battling Na'Vi people. But it's still happening now, and it's the clearest proof yet that blue body-paint is the new armband. More »
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James Cameron won't let you escape Pandora just yet. When Avatar returns to theaters, it'll have eight minutes of new footage. Here's your first taste. More »
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You've seen Avatar's sex cartoons and real life parodies, but here's the real pornographic deal. This is the first image from Hustler's Avatar porn, This Ain't Avatar XXX. If Jake Sooley doesn't "make tsaheylu" with a tree, we're out. More »
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Long before you watched Jake Sully leave his body and enter a world of warriors and dragons, dozens of super-talented designers were pulled into James Cameron's imaginary world. We interviewed 17 Avatar designers, and here's everything they told us. More »
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