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James Cameron Attempts To Explain The ‘Avatar’ Science Behind Blowing Your Freaking Minds

4:00AM Seth | James Cameron’s upcoming feature Avatar exists not merely to bring a motion-captured Michelle Rodriguez to a wider audience than ever before, but—if we are to believe what he tells us—to singlehandedly revolutionize the way we make, see, and even perceive of the movies. THR braved an interview with the director, who’s too busy playing with his new toys to worry about losing his top-grossing-movie title to some gravel-voiced bat-creep. (Besides—by the time Avatar rolls around, the sweeping social revolution that accompanies it will render old notions of currency and spending completely obsolete. We’ll be ranking the weekend box office in levels of Braincell Conversion Osmosis, or some other inconceivable economic unit of measurement.) But we digress; let’s let Cameron describe some of the really-complicated-sounding rabbits he’s got stuffed in his wizard hat: More »

How ‘Dark Knight’ Will Sink ‘Titanic’ For All-Time Box-Office Glory

4:35AM STV | With its enshrinement as The Greatest Film Ever Made safely assured and its box-office trajectory soaring ever upward, The Dark Knight is now being groomed for a spot so exclusive that it only changes hands once per decade: The highest-grossing film in history. Feel free to take the news with a grain of salt, seeing as it came from the notably math-challenged John Horn in today’s LA Times; even so, it’s hard to argue when Knight is looking at $400 million by this weekend and Titanic sits idle at the dock with $600 million.

Sam Worthington May Have Seen John Conner

9:13AM Clem Bastow | First there was the news he was set to play every little boy’s favourite undressable meat-head with a confusingly asexual lump between the legs, G.I. Joe. Now, it looks as though Sam Worthington’s run of Hollywood luck will continue, as James Cameron – who has been directing the Australian actor in sci-fi epic, Avatar – has recommended Worthington to appear in the latest Terminator installment. “He’s got the weight, he’s a tough guy – a young Russell Crowe,” Cameron said of the 31-year-old. Cameron, who directed the first two Terminator movies, is said to have recommended the NIDA graduate for the fourth Terminator movie to director Joseph McGinty Nicol (aka McG). It was Cameron who took a gamble on two relative unknowns for the $1.8 billion box office earning Titanic – Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio – catapulting them to superstardom. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines took more than $477 million at the worldwide box office when it launched in 2003. While the Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins storyline is still being kept under wraps, Worthington will play the role of Marcus, a central figure in the three-picture arc that begins after Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust. Joining him will be Batman Begins and The Prestige star Christian Bale playing John Connor, who struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job. Hmm, we’re not so sure how we feel about this – in a filmic, sci-fi fan sense, that is. Sam Worthington and Christian Bale = great news, but McG, director of music videos and, well, feature-length music videos (Charlie’s Angels etc)? More »