Quick Cuts: The Hobbit, Avatar, Spider-Man and More
Well, everything will be ok. Peter Jackson, New Zealand officials and the labor unions have reached an agreement and production on The Hobbit will stay in New Zealand. The NZ government is helping the studio offset some of their costs with tax benefits and production will begin as scheduled. (Source: The Playlist) We’re returning to […]
In: Movies, News · Tagged with: Avatar, Christopher Nolan, James Cameron, New Zealand, Quick Cuts, Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit
Guillermo del Toro finally pounding the first piton into At the Mountains of Madness
Forgive me if I’m hyperventilating a little. In an exclusive over at Deadline, it looks like Guillermo del Toro will finally pull HP Lovecraft Adaptation At the Mountains of Madness out of development hell. The film, based on the novella of the same name, has had a years long development, in part because de Toro […]
In: Books, Movies · Tagged with: At The Mountains of Madness, based on a book, development hell, Guillermo del Toro, Horror movies, HP Lovecraft, James Cameron
TIME talks 3-D
TIME has a new article about 3-D filmmaking that’s well worth a read, in part because Stephen Spielberg and Jim Cameron discuss Tintin (which wraps principal photography this week) and Avatar (not the Avatar: The Last Airbender movie) the latter of which the article’s writer got to see the first glimpse of. His reaction: I […]
In: Around the Intertubes · Tagged with: James Cameron, Stephen Spielberg
Quick Cuts: Jim Cameron to take a Dive?, Scott Pilgrim's Ramona cast, Spider-Man update
“After Avatar, I want to do something a lot smaller,” James Cameron told The Hollywood Reporter yesterday, reiterating earlier comments in an extended interview with Variety a while back. He’s considering following the mega-budgeted sci-fi epic with The Dive, “a true story about the romance between Cuban free diver Francisco ‘Pipin’ Ferreras and Frenchwoman Audrey […]
In: News · Tagged with: Avatar, James Cameron, Jim Cameron, Scott Pilgrim