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James Cameron Presents New Avatar

12:51AM Richard Lawson | News today about James Cameron, that little fellow with a dream. Also about TV pilots getting a second chance at life. James King becomes Jaime King, too! More »

‘Strangers’ Sequel ‘2 Strange 2 Maskier’ Gets Greenlight

5:40AM Seth | Low-budget suspense movie The Strangers, which managed to pretty effectively scare the crap out of us, is getting a sequel. It promises to cover all the rooms in a house Liv Tyler wasn’t chased through by a trio of masked psychopaths not explored in the original. [Variety] NBC gives Chuck gets a full-season order, while America’s Got Talent—which seems on course to reward a male Britney Spears impersonator $1 million—got a fourth season. [Variety] Lonelygirl15 is returning for LG15: The Resistance. Could someone be a doll and fill Aaron Sorkin in on what’s happened in the plot until now? [Variety] ABC is hot for a comedy pilot from Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd that would follow three families as their lives are documented by a Dutch filmmaker. None of the families are Caveman-American, to our knowledge. [THR] George Clooney is in negotiations to star in Jason Reitman’s adaptation of Walter Kirn’s frequent-flyer-mile-addiction novel, Up in the Air, effectively bumping this project up to First Class. (Feel free to use that, THR.) [THR] More »