"as Dr. Max Patel. Principal photography on the ""Avatar 2"" and ""3"" began simultaneously on September 25, 2017 in Manhattan Beach, California. On November 14, 2018, Cameron announced filming with the main cast had been completed. Filming on the next two sequels will begin after wrapping the post-production on first two sequels. ""Avatar 3"" is scheduled to be released on December 17, 2021 by 20th Century Fox, one year after the release of ""Avatar 2"" in December 2020. Avatar 3 Avatar 3 is an upcoming American epic science fiction film directed, produced, co-written, and co-edited by James Cameron, scheduled to"
"Themes in Avatar The 2009 American science fiction film ""Avatar"" has earned widespread success, becoming the highest-grossing film in history. The blockbuster has provoked vigorous discussion of a wide variety of cultural, social, political, and religious themes identified by critics and commentators, and the film's writer and director James Cameron has responded that he hoped to create an emotional reaction and to provoke public conversation about these topics. The broad range of ""Avatar""s intentional or perceived themes has prompted reviewers to call it ""an all-purpose allegory"" and ""the season's ideological Rorschach blot"". One reporter even suggested that the politically charged"
"Themes in Avatar The 2009 American science fiction film ""Avatar"" has earned widespread success, becoming the highest-grossing film in history. The blockbuster has provoked vigorous discussion of a wide variety of cultural, social, political, and religious themes identified by critics and commentators, and the film's writer and director James Cameron has responded that he hoped to create an emotional reaction and to provoke public conversation about these topics. The broad range of ""Avatar""s intentional or perceived themes has prompted reviewers to call it ""an all-purpose allegory"" and ""the season's ideological Rorschach blot"". One reporter even suggested that the politically charged"
"Horner collaborated again with James Cameron on his 2009 film ""Avatar"", which became the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing Cameron's own ""Titanic"". Horner worked exclusively on ""Avatar"" for over two years. He said, """"Avatar"" has been the most difficult film I have worked on, and the biggest job I have undertaken... I work from four in the morning to about ten at night, and that's been my way of life since March. That's the world I'm in now, and it makes you feel estranged from everything. I'll have to recover from that and get my head out of [it]."""
"Vince Pace for the 2009 film ""Avatar"". The film was written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. Set after the events of ""Extinction"", Alice and her clones attack the Umbrella Headquarters in Tokyo. Wesker escapes and destroys the facility, killing the clones. Wesker is confronted by Alice aboard his helicopter. He injects Alice with a serum that removes her super-human abilities. The helicopter crashes, and only Alice is seen emerging from the rubble. After six months of a failed aerial search for other survivors, Alice heads toward the supposed location of Arcadia. She lands on an airfield in Alaska,"
"to ""The Hurt Locker"". Jon Landau (film producer) Jon Landau (; born July 23, 1960) is an American film producer, known for producing ""Titanic"" (1997), a film which won him an Academy Award and earned $2.19 billion in gross revenues, and ""Avatar"" (2009), which earned $2.79 billion. , these are still the two highest-grossing films of all time. Landau was born Jewish family in New York City, New York, the son of Edie, a producer, and Ely A. Landau, a studio executive and producer. He attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Throughout the early '90s, Landau was Executive Vice"
"(2005). He returned to directing features in 2009 with the 3D science fiction film ""Avatar"". It grossed over $2.78 billion at the worldwide box-office and became the highest grossing of all time surpassing ""Titanic"". The film still holds this record as of 2017. ""Avatar"" was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won three in technical categories. Cameron also earned a second Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and Best Motion Picture – Drama. He followed this by executive producing two 3D films, ""Sanctum"" (2011) and """" (2012), as well as the documentary ""Deepsea Challenge 3D"" (2014). Cameron made his television"
"first feature film since 1997's ""Titanic"". It is composed almost entirely of computer-generated animation, using a more-advanced version of the ""performance capture"" technique used by director Robert Zemeckis in ""The Polar Express"". James Cameron had written an 80-page scriptment for ""Avatar"" in 1995 and announced in 1996 that he would make the film after completing ""Titanic"". In December 2006, Cameron explained that the delay in producing the film since the 1990s had been to wait until the technology necessary to create his project was advanced enough, since at the time no studio would finance for the development of the visual"
"for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing. After ""Titanic"", Cameron began a project that took almost 10 years to make: his science-fiction epic ""Avatar"" (2009), which was in particular a landmark for 3D technology, and for which he received nominations for the same three Academy Awards. Despite ""Avatar"" being his only movie made to date in 3D, Cameron is the most successful 3D film-maker in terms of box-office revenue. In the time between making ""Titanic"" and ""Avatar"", Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films (specifically underwater documentaries) and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. Described by"
"effects. The film was originally scheduled to be released in May 2009 but was pushed back to December 2009 to allow more time for post-production on the complex CGI and to give more time for theatres worldwide to install 3D projectors. Cameron originally intended ""Avatar"" to be 3D-only. ""Avatar"" broke several box office records during its initial theatrical run. It grossed $749.7 million in the United States and Canada and more than $2.74 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time in the United States and Canada, surpassing Cameron's ""Titanic"". ""Avatar"" also became the first movie to ever earn"
"Mauro Fiore Mauro Fiore (born November 15, 1964) is an Italian-American cinematographer. He was born in Marzi, Calabria and moved to the US with his family in 1971. He attended Palatine High School in Palatine, Illinois, and graduated in 1982. He went on to receive his B.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 1987. He is most notable for his work in the 2009 film ""Avatar"" for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 82nd Academy Awards. Other prior films that he worked on before ""Avatar"" are ""Training Day"", ""The Hire: Ticker"", ""Tears of the Sun"", ""Smokin'"
"Jon Landau (film producer) Jon Landau (; born July 23, 1960) is an American film producer, known for producing ""Titanic"" (1997), a film which won him an Academy Award and earned $2.19 billion in gross revenues, and ""Avatar"" (2009), which earned $2.79 billion. , these are still the two highest-grossing films of all time. Landau was born Jewish family in New York City, New York, the son of Edie, a producer, and Ely A. Landau, a studio executive and producer. He attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Throughout the early '90s, Landau was Executive Vice President of Feature Film"
"universe in early 2006. ""Avatar"" was officially budgeted at $237 million. Other estimates put the cost between $280 million and $310 million for production and at $150 million for promotion. The film made extensive use of new motion capture filming techniques, and was released for traditional viewing, 3D viewing (using the RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, XpanD 3D, and IMAX 3D formats), and for ""4D"" experiences in select South Korean theaters. The stereoscopic filmmaking was touted as a breakthrough in cinematic technology. ""Avatar"" premiered in London on , 2009, and was internationally released on and in the United States and Canada"
"voicemails during filming, giving advice on the role. Steven Spielberg taught her the Vulcan salute five years earlier when he directed her in ""The Terminal"". ""Star Trek"" (2009) was a box office success grossing $385.7 million. Saldana's second high-profile film in 2009 was James Cameron's ""Avatar"", in which she played the alien hunter Neytiri. ""Avatar"" was well-received by critics, accumulating an approval rating of 83% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. It grossed $2.7 billion worldwide to become the highest-grossing film of all time, as well as in the United States and Canada. It also became the first film to"
"Production at Twentieth Century Fox. He is best known for producing ""Titanic"" (1997), a film which won him an Academy Award and became the highest-grossing film of all time, the first ever to reach $2.0 billion in gross revenues. The film reached $2.19 billion, more than double the $1.03 billion of then-record-holder ""Jurassic Park"" (1993). In 2009, Landau and James Cameron produced the science fiction blockbuster ""Avatar"", which has since surpassed their earlier collaboration, ""Titanic"", to become the new (and reigning) highest-grossing film of all time, with $2.79 billion. ""Avatar"" earned Landau his second Academy Award nomination, losing that year"
"80-page treatment for ""Avatar"", drawing inspiration from ""every single science fiction book"" he had read in his childhood as well as from adventure novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. In , Cameron announced that after completing ""Titanic"", he would film ""Avatar"", which would make use of synthetic, or computer-generated, actors. The project would cost $100 million and involve at least six actors in leading roles ""who appear to be real but do not exist in the physical world"". Visual effects house Digital Domain, with whom Cameron has a partnership, joined the project, which was supposed to begin"
"Avataran Avataran is an upcoming Assamese language Sci- Fi film directed by Tarunabh Dutta and produced by Nalinikanth Dutta under the banner of TD Studio Productions. It features Pranjal Saikia, Purnima Saikia, Rimpi Das, Sourabh Hazarika, Ananya Parashar, Samir Ranjan, Reema Begam, Devyam Seal, Martina Gogoi, Aasthajitananda Bordoloi in major roles. Technically ""Avataran"" is the most expensive film produced ever in the history of North-East Indian cinema. The film was shot using Canon 5D Mark III camera in beautiful Assamese locations. The director Dutta is handling the cinematography himself. The principal photography began in May 2012. The film's post production"
"film of all time, Cameron's ""Avatar"". Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including Don Bluth, James Cameron, Joe Johnston, Walter Hill and Ron Howard; producers including George Lucas, David Kirschner, Jon Landau, Brian Grazer and Steven Spielberg; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. He won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, three Satellite Awards, and three Saturn Awards, and was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards. Horner, who was an avid pilot, died at the age of 61 in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft. Horner was born in 1953"
"be reached."" She is also the founder of the pro-union website Hollywood United. She was an executive producer of the 2009 blockbuster ""Avatar"" by director James Cameron. She was executive producer and screenwriter of the 2010 film ""Shutter Island"". She produced the 2013 film ""White House Down"". In 2013, she and Patrick Lussier were both named co-writers for the fifth film in the ""Terminator"" series, ""Terminator Genisys"", for Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions. She was also an executive producer of the 2015 film. In 2018, she was producer for the film ""The House with a Clock in Its Walls"". She"
"John C. Kilkenny John Kilkenny is a President at 20th Century Fox, heading the studio's visual effects department. His division budgets, produces and oversees all the visual effects on feature films made by the studio's production units, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures and Fox Searchlight Pictures. Most notably, Kilkenny is credited with overseeing the Academy Award-winning effects on ""Avatar"" which was written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron (""Titanic"") and earned a record breaking $2.8 billion worldwide at the box office. Kilkenny oversaw the effects on such recent blockbuster films as ""Prometheus"", ""Rise of the Planet of"
"title refers to a genetically engineered Na'vi body operated from the brain of a remotely located human that is used to interact with the natives of Pandora. Development of ""Avatar"" began in 1994, when Cameron wrote an 80-page treatment for the film. Filming was supposed to take place after the completion of Cameron's 1997 film ""Titanic"", for a planned release in 1999, but, according to Cameron, the necessary technology was not yet available to achieve his vision of the film. Work on the language of the film's extraterrestrial beings began in 2005, and Cameron began developing the screenplay and fictional"
"with paintings and physical sculptures when Cameron felt that 3-D brush renderings were not capturing his vision, often working together in the kitchen of Cameron's Malibu home. In , Cameron announced that he would film ""Avatar"" for a mid-2008 release and planned to begin principal photography with an established cast by . The following August, the visual effects studio Weta Digital signed on to help Cameron produce ""Avatar"". Stan Winston, who had collaborated with Cameron in the past, joined ""Avatar"" to help with the film's designs. Production design for the film took several years. The film had two different production"
"16, 2012. Two sequels to ""Avatar"" were initially confirmed after the success of the first film; this number was subsequently expanded to four. Their respective release dates are currently December 18, 2020, December 17, 2021, December 20, 2024, and December 19, 2025. Cameron is directing, producing and co-writing all four; Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Shane Salerno all took a part in the writing process of all of the sequels before being assigned to finish the separate scripts, making the eventual writing credits for each film unclear. Filming for the first two sequels began in September 2017 and"
"Avatar: Music from the Motion Picture Avatar: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to the 2009 James Cameron film ""Avatar"", with music composed, co-orchestrated and conducted by James Horner. The album's deluxe edition, featuring six bonus tracks, was released on April 19, 2010 to promote the DVD release of the film. Composer James Horner scored the film, his third collaboration with Cameron after ""Aliens"" and ""Titanic"". Horner recorded parts of the score with a small chorus singing in the Na'vi language in March 2008. He also worked with Wanda Bryant, an ethnomusicologist, to create a music culture"
"was going to happen next?"". For French filmmaker Luc Besson, ""Avatar"" opened the doors for him to now create an adaptation of the graphic novel series ""Valérian and Laureline"" that technologically supports the scope of its source material, with Besson even throwing his original script in the trash and redoing it after seeing the film. ""TIME"" ranked ""Avatar"" number 3 in their list of ""The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far)"" also earning it a spot on the magazine's All-TIME 100 list, and IGN listed ""Avatar"" as number 22 on their list of the top 25 Sci-Fi movies"
"to the ""Project 880"" script, and it was finally released in 2009 as ""Avatar"". The filming of the 1995 film ""Strange Days"" SQUID scenes, which offer a point-of-view shot (POV), required multi-faceted cameras and considerable technical preparation. A full year was spent building a specialized camera that could reproduce the effect of looking through someone else's eyes. Bigelow revealed that it was essentially ""a stripped-down Arri that weighed much less than the smallest EYMO and yet it would take all the prime lenses."" Cameron and cinematographer Matthew F. Leonetti helped Bigelow direct the scenes, which were choreographed weeks in advance,"
"by Peter Jackson. In 2005, Moran won her first Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture from the Visual Effects Society for her work on Peter Jackson's ""King Kong"". Moran led the Weta Digital effects team which worked on James Cameron's ""Avatar"", released in 2009. Moran and her team won the Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture for their work on ""Avatar"" in 2009. She also received a Visual Effects Society Award nomination for her work on Steven Spielberg's """". Her film credits"
"and director of the 2009 film ""Avatar"", Frommer was chosen to create a language for the Na'vi, the film's fictional alien race of sentient blue humanoid inhabitants of the moon Pandora. Frommer says that his process for creating the language began with phonetics and phonology: ""The sound system has to be all nailed down first, so that there is consistency in the language"". The morphology, syntax and vocabulary followed. Cameron had already created several dozen words that he wanted to incorporate into the new language. That gave Frommer ""a sense of what kinds of sounds he had in mind"". Cameron"
"Fictional universe of Avatar In the 2009 science fiction film ""Avatar"", director James Cameron conceived a fictional universe in which humans seek to mine unobtanium on the fictional exoplanetary moon, Pandora. The Earth-like moon is inhabited by a sapient indigenous humanoid species called the Na'vi, and varied fauna and flora. Resources Development Administration (RDA) scientists, administrators, recruits, support, and security personnel travel to Pandora in the 22nd century to discover this lush world, which is inhabited by many lifeforms including the human-like Na'vi. The clan with which the humans have contact in the film ""[lives] in a giant tree that"
"Battle Angel Alita). Both movies were to be shot in 3D. By December, Cameron stated that he wanted to film ""Battle Angel"" first, followed by ""Avatar"". However, in February 2006, he switched goals for the two film projects and decided to film ""Avatar"" first. He mentioned that if both films were successful, he would be interested in seeing a trilogy being made for both. ""Alita: Battle Angel"" eventually began production in 2016 with Cameron writing and producing and Robert Rodriguez directing. ""Avatar"" had an estimated budget of over $300 million and was released on December 18, 2009. This marked his"
"Craig Tanner (producer) Craig Tanner (born March 28, 1974) is an American film director, film producer, and editor. He is an award-winning film producer and editor, best known for his work as visual effects editor for the film ""Avatar"" and as producer and editor of ""God Sleeps in Rwanda"". Tanner is also the co-founder of Digital Revolution Studios, a 3D production studio. Tanner was born in Coronado Island, California and raised in the small town of Roseburg, Oregon. Tanner was a star athlete in high school, lettering in football, swimming, ski team, and wrestling team. He was offered a full"
"""The Abyss"", and the executive producer of """". Hamilton played the role of Sarah Connor in both ""Terminator"" films. Amis played the part of Lizzy Calvert, Rose's granddaughter, in ""Titanic"". Both Cameron (""Avatar"") and Bigelow (""The Hurt Locker"") were nominated for the Oscar, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA Award for Best Director for films released in 2009. Cameron won the Golden Globe, while Bigelow won the Oscar and the BAFTA for Best Director, becoming the first woman to win either. Cameron became an expert on deep-sea exploration in conjunction with his research and underwater filming for ""The Abyss"" (1989)"
"on , to positive critical reviews, with critics highly praising its groundbreaking visual effects. During its theatrical run, the film broke several box office records and became the highest-grossing film of all time, as well as in the United States and Canada, surpassing Cameron's ""Titanic"", which had held those records for twelve years. It also became the first film to gross more than and the best-selling film of 2010 in the United States. ""Avatar"" was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects. Following"