james cameron

^{"That's a huuuge bitch!!!!"}

There are conflicting reports about Avatar's final pricetag. Cameron and crew insist that the film cost $230 million but the New York Times guesses that it will top out around $500 million after marketing costs. At any rate, that's a lot of scratch. Is it even possible for the film to make back its money? Even if you factor in die-hard Cameron fans, the Christmas crowd, and Michelle Rodriguez's relatives, it still seems like kind of a stretch.

But don't worry. FOX has a plan. The studio is going to release Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeekquel (because chipmunks squeek?) one week after Avatar's release. Sound plan FOX. If at first you don't succeed, show them your sh*t-eating chipmunks. (io9)

Avatar Trailer - Watch more Funny Videos

Literally five minutes after we posted the international trailer for Avatar, Yahoo went and posted the domestic one in HD like a bunch of cocky biatches. I apologize for the name calling, Yahoo. You are not cocky biatches... I'm just a lazy biatch.

If you like versions of trailers that are sharper, louder, and have less Elvish subtitles in them, than you're sure to prefer this one over the grainy one the foreigners have to watch. And don't you dare call me xenophobic. In Pandora, the blue cat Rastafarians think of xenophobia as a synonym for love.

Ride these links like a hybrid pterodactyl dragon!

_{Letters to Annoying People on Halloween (HolyTaco)}

_{Yankees Fan and His Crazy Motorized Wheelchair (TotalProSports)}

_{You Can Order This Hot Bride Online (TheChive)}

_{Marty Krofft is Puffin' Stuff (FilmDrunk)}

_{Kitten Eats with Chopsticks (SuperTremendous)}

_{Ten Most Badass Jesuses (Pajiba)}

_{Kanye West Interrupts Taylor Swift Being a Nazi (CelebJihad)}

_{What Disney Taught Us Growing Up (Unreality)}

_{Sasha Grey is Wonder Woman for Halloween (Asylum)}

_{Susan Was Just Jerkin' Around About Sex for Tickets (BustedCoverage)}

_{25 NSFW Vampire Babes (RegretfulMorning)}

_{The Art of Fantasy Football (MadeMan)}

_{Kyle Busch is a Bitch Costume (AllLeftTurns)}

The Internet has been subsisting on a grainy bootleg version of the full-length Avatar trailer for nearly a week. Well, those days are behind us. Though the domestic trailer is not due to debut online until tomorrow, America has, much like the evil Marines in the film, raped Thailand of their international trailer. Are we sure this is Thai? The subtitles look more like Elvish or the frosting trim on a gingerbread house.

Anyway, Avatar opens on December 18th and is about dinosaurs eating army men. What are your thoughts? Do you plan on seeing Jim Cameron's 3D Rumble in the Jungle??

According to io9, James Cameron may have spontaneuously come up with the concept for Avatar after reading Poul Anderson's 1957 sci fi novella Call Me Joe, and then conveniently forgetting that he read it:

Like Avatar, Call Me Joe centers on a paraplegic — Ed Anglesey — who telepathically connects with an artificially created life form in order to explore a harsh planet (in this case, Jupiter). Anglesey, like Avatar's Jake Sully, revels in the freedom and strength of his artificial created body, battles predators on the surface of Jupiter, and gradually goes native as he spends more time connected to his artificial body.

Cameron is no stranger to accusations of plagiary.  After Terminator's release, writer Harlan Ellison sued the production company for ripping off two episodes he wrote for The Outer Limits.  The company settled and Ellison is acknowledged in the film's credits.

As far as Avatar is concerned, at least Cameron had the creative insight to change the name of the title from Call Me Joe.  Sounds like a biopic of Joe The Plumber, who would undoubtedly be played by a bald Tim Allen. 

Sorry for the crappy bootleg version, but it's the best quality that exists online right now. You'll have to go to the theaters this weekend to see a better version of this three-minute Cliff's Notes epic on the big screen. Then... AND ONLY THEN... can we fairly judge the film's entire worth. 

Finally the long national wait for the actually good Avatar trailer is over. Coming Soon (tee-hee) reports that a 3 minute and 30 second trailer featuring a hefty amount of story will premiere in theaters this Friday. No word yet on which film it will be attached to but this is said to be THE trailer. The most epic, shart-inducing, nipple-tingling visual feat ever rendered. The film is set to open in less than two months so expect a huge marketing push for this one. In other words, it's about to get Avatarded in here.

Shut-ins and bubble people sadly will have to wait until Thursday, October 29th to view the trailer online. Damn! That's not nearly enough time to hone and perfect the intricacies of my CCH Pounder Halloween costume.

Alls I gots ta say is... let's get Avatarded in here!  We just got out of the AVATAR press conference with none other than James Cameron, and raced back to a quiet place so we could squeal like schoolgirls... and upload these videos of the visionary director talking earnestly about his project.  

The huge news revealed today is that on August 21st - "Avatar Day" - select movie theaters and online outlets will be screening 15 minutes of the film for FREE.  That's how confident Twentieth Century Fox and Cameron must be about their product.  In fact, rumor has it that Fox head Tom Rothman cried like a baby during the screening in the San Diego Convention Center's Hall H*.

* Not true.

So settle in and enjoy Mr. Cameron wax on about his little movie. 

PART 1:  Cameron on the film's character design.

Director: James Cameron

Cast: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Giovanni Ribisi

Synopsis: A group of humans are confronted by a distant planet's native population, forcing them into battle

Genre: Action/Science Fiction

Release Date: December 18, 2009