Avatar [DVD] [2017]

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The official music video for I See You has received over 32 million views. The trailer for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has received over 18 million views. Others have felt that the movie had little to no cultural impact. Cameron said that "cultural" impact is something that has to be built over time, such as how the Star Wars trilogy had sequels every 3 years. However, Avatar was originally intended to be a standalone story. Cameron said that the Avatar sequels in the 2020s will determine its cultural impact. [28] Cultural impact

a b c Hevrdejs, Judy; Conklin, Mike (August 9, 1996). "Channel 2 has Monday morning team in place". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved February 1, 2010. The script had a character working in Hell's Kitchen named Hegner, who lost his Avatar to a Slinth. "Hegner felt himself die, and he hasn't been right since. Added to the trauma is the loss... the loss of his other life, the one lived in his avatar body." The film is rated PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking, according to commercials on air. It is James Cameron's third film to receive this rating (with Titanic and The Abyss). a b "Avatar Language". Nine to Noon. Radio New Zealand. December 15, 2009 . Retrieved September 9, 2021.Principal photography for Avatar began in April 2007 in Los Angeles and Wellington. Cameron described the film as a hybrid with a full live-action shoot in combination with computer-generated characters and live environments. "Ideally at the end of the day the audience has no idea which they're looking at," Cameron said. The director indicated that he had already worked four months on nonprincipal scenes for the film. [63] The live action was shot with a modified version of the proprietary digital 3-D Fusion Camera System, developed by Cameron and Vince Pace. [64] In January 2007, Fox had announced that 3-D filming for Avatar would be done at 24 frames per second despite Cameron's strong opinion that a 3-D film requires higher frame rate to make strobing less noticeable. [65] According to Cameron, the film is composed of 60% computer-generated elements and 40% live action, as well as traditional miniatures. [66] Capturing Avatar: "Journey with James Cameron and crew in this documentary, as they embark on a film the likes of which the world has never seen a b Quittner, Josh (March 19, 2009). "The Next Dimension". Time. Archived from the original on March 22, 2009 . Retrieved March 19, 2009. PC/Console: Avatar: The Game (2009: PC/360/PS3 · Demo · Wii/PSP · NDS) · Frontiers of Pandora (2023) Brothers (2017) · Tsu'tey's Path (2019) · The Next Shadow (2021) · Adapt or Die (2022) · The High Ground (2022) · So'lek's Journey (2024)

At Disney's CinemaCon 2022 presentation, it was announced that Avatar would be remastered and rereleased for a fourth time on September 23, 2022. The trailer for the remaster was released online August 23, 2022, one day before Jake's canonical birthday and two days after the original "Avatar Day" in 2009. Shortly before the trailer's reveal, the film was quietly removed from Disney's streaming service, Disney+. Cohen, David S. (April 10, 2008). "James Cameron supercharges 3-D". Variety. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022 . Retrieved December 26, 2009. Williamson, Kevin. "Paraplegic role helps Worthington find his feet". The London Free Press. Archived from the original on January 30, 2010 . Retrieved January 1, 2010. From 2005 to 2007, Cameron worked with a handful of designers, including famed fantasy illustrator Wayne Barlowe and renowned concept artist Jordu Schell, to shape the design of the Na'vi with paintings and physical sculptures when Cameron felt that 3-D brush renderings were not capturing his vision, [53] often working together in the kitchen of Cameron's Malibu home. [54] In July 2006, Cameron announced that he would film Avatar for a mid-2008 release and planned to begin principal photography with an established cast by February 2007. [55] The following August, the visual effects studio Weta Digital signed on to help Cameron produce Avatar. [56] Stan Winston, who had collaborated with Cameron in the past, joined Avatar to help with the film's designs. [57] Production design for the film took several years. The film had two different production designers, and two separate art departments, one of which focused on the flora and fauna of Pandora, and another that created human machines and human factors. [58] In September 2006, Cameron was announced to be using his own Reality Camera System to film in 3-D. The system would use two high-definition cameras in a single camera body to create depth perception. [59]From January to April 2006, Cameron worked on the script and developed a culture for the film's aliens, the Na'vi. Their language was created by Paul Frommer, a linguist at USC. [11] The Na'vi language has a lexicon of about 1000 words, with some 30 added by Cameron. The tongue's phonemes include ejective consonants (such as the "kx" in "skxawng") that are found in Amharic, and the initial "ng" that Cameron may have taken from Te Reo Māori. [16] Actress Sigourney Weaver and the film's set designers met with Jodie S. Holt, professor of plant physiology at University of California, Riverside, to learn about the methods used by botanists to study and sample plants, and to discuss ways to explain the communication between Pandora's organisms depicted in the film. [52] Thompson, Anne (January 9, 2007). " "Titanic" director sets sci-fi epic for '09". Reuters. Archived from the original on January 22, 2010 . Retrieved December 26, 2009. Cameron, James (2007). "Avatar" (PDF). Fox Screenings. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 25, 2010 . Retrieved May 6, 2010. Zoe Saldaña as Neytiri te Tskaha Mo'at'ite, the daughter of the leaders of the Omaticaya (the Na'vi clan central to the story). She is attracted to Jake because of his bravery, though frustrated with him for what she sees as his naiveté and stupidity. She serves as Jake's love interest. [34] The character, like all the Na'vi, was created using performance capture, and its visual aspect is entirely computer generated. [35] Saldaña signed on for potential sequels. [36] When we were making Avatar, when we started it, we naturally assumed it would be somewhat successful because it had the elements people like, you know, fantastic environments and good characters and a love story. But then as we got deeper into the production, and it became one of the highest costing films of all time, there was genuine concern that it would never break even, that it would never make money. And we had a very difficult post production, because the film was too long and I wound up editing the film for over a year, and we took out about 45 minutes of film. And I think at the moment we released the film, we still believed it was too long. Once it came out, it was clear the film for most viewers was too short, they wanted more of that world.

Conan O'Brien (December 18, 2009). The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. Season 1. Episode 128. NBC. I was cheap Avatar: Music from the Motion Picture was released on December 15, 2009. A promotional 3 disc set was also released. A 5 disc set referred to as Avatar: Complete Score was announced, but the set was leaked ahead of the launch and ultimately never released commercially. On October 30, to celebrate the opening of the first 3-D cinema in Vietnam, Fox allowed Megastar Cinema to screen exclusive 16 minutes of Avatar to a number of press. [134] The three-and-a-half-minute trailer of the film premiered live on November 1, 2009, during a Dallas Cowboys football game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on the Diamond Vision screen, one of the world's largest video displays, and to TV audiences viewing the game on Fox. It is said to be the largest live motion picture trailer viewing in history. [135]

Coyle, Jake (January 31, 2010). " 'Avatar' Wins Box Office, Nears Domestic Record". ABC News. Archived from the original on February 3, 2010 . Retrieved February 2, 2010. Thompson, Anne (January 9, 2007). "Cameron sets live-action, CG epic for 2009". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on October 4, 2021 . Retrieved April 27, 2022. There is a variety of video games titled James Cameron's Avatar: The Game. There are different versions of the game for the PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and mobile phones. They all tell different stories and they are all prequels to the film with the exception of Avatar: The Mobile Game which lets players play as Jake, although the story is a very loose adaptation of the film. Otherwise, their stories have little to do with the events of the actual film, instead showing the build-up of the RDA's activities on Pandora and feature Na'vi protagonists Rai'uk and Nok trying to oppose them. Horn, John. "Faces to watch 2009: film, TV, music and Web – Sam Worthington". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 31, 2008 . Retrieved April 27, 2022. Williams, Phillip (January 19, 2010). "James Cameron Mixes It Up With Avatar". MovieMaker. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012 . Retrieved July 21, 2014.

a b c Barnes, Brooks (December 20, 2009). " 'Avatar' Is No. 1 but Without a Record". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 13, 2011 . Retrieved December 20, 2009. In December 2009, France Post released a special limited edition stamp based on Avatar, coinciding with the film's worldwide release. [152] Releases Theatrical Initial screening A number of innovative visual effects techniques were used during production. According to Cameron, work on the film had been delayed since the 1990s to allow the techniques to reach the necessary degree of advancement to adequately portray his vision of the film. [13] [14] The director planned to make use of photorealistic computer-generated characters, created using new motion capture animation technologies he had been developing in the 14 months leading up to December 2006. [71]

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Although analysts have been unable to agree that Avatar 's success is attributable to one primary factor, several explanations have been advanced. First, January is historically "the dumping ground for the year's weakest films", and this also applied to 2010. [298] The Avatar three-disc Extended Collector's Edition on DVD and Blu-ray was released on November 16, 2010. Three different versions of the film are present on the discs: the original theatrical cut (162 minutes), the special edition cut (170 minutes), and a collector's extended cut (178 minutes). The DVD set spreads the film across two discs, while the Blu-ray set presents it on a single disc. [185] The collector's extended cut contains 8 more minutes of footage, thus making it 16 minutes longer than the original theatrical cut. Cameron mentioned, "you can sit down, and in a continuous screening of the film, watch it with the Earth opening". He stated the "Earth opening" is an additional 4 + 1⁄ 2 minutes of scenes that were in the film for much of its production but were ultimately cut before the film's theatrical release. [186] The release also includes an additional 45 minutes of deleted scenes and other extras. [185] Jake is introduced to Norm Spellman, a biologist who arrived on the same rotation of personnel as he did. He also meets Dr. Max Patel, who connects the avatars, and Dr. Grace Augustine, a botanist as well as the leader of the Avatar Program. Using the avatars, Grace and her team have made some considerable progress learning about the natives' language and culture. Grace is displeased with RDA administrator Parker Selfridge's decision to use Jake to replace his brother's avatar position. Parker stresses that the RDA needs to mine the extremely valuable mineral unobtanium, which can be found in huge deposits on Pandora. Upon meeting Jake, Grace is very standoffish due to her disdain of soldiers, but implores Jake to begin making his own video logs to document his journey.