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Cinema’s Damaged Heroine

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Sarah Myles on cinema’s damaged heroine… “Badass.” As a word, it has become synonymous with determined women in movies. Why? Because that is how critics routinely describe them. “Black Widow gets extra bad-ass in this Avengers 2 trailer,” said Rob Bricken of i09. In Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron plays “a career badass who enjoys both […]

Robert Rodriguez explains Alita: Battle Angel’s anime eyes

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While James Cameron messes about on Pandora, he has handed the directorial duties of his years-in-development Alita: Battle Angel over to Predators director Robert Rodriguez. When the trailer debuted the other day, amongst the most striking features of the sci-fi epic were the rendering of Rosa Salazar’s eyes. Speaking to Empire about the trailer, Rodriguez […]

Alita: Battle Angel gets a first teaser ahead of trailer

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To whet our appetites for the release of the first trailer, a brief teaser has been revealed for the Robert Rodriguez-directed and James Cameron-produced manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel; check it out here… Her journey begins tomorrow. #Alita pic.twitter.com/v5e6FTWQgU — Alita: Battle Angel (@AlitaMovie) December 8, 2017 Alita: Battle Angel is set for release on July 20th […]

Blu-ray Review – Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D (1991)

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D, 1991. Directed by James Cameron. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Joe Morton, and Robert Patrick. SYNOPSIS: Years after Sarah Connor was stalked by a Terminator, a machine sent from a future where an AI has subjugated humanity, she must now prevent another, more powerful Terminator from killing her […]

James Cameron on why the time is right for a new Terminator movie

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Yesterday we brought you some comments from James Cameron about his four new Avatar movies, but of course they aren’t the only upcoming sequels that the filmmaker has a hand in, as he is set to produce a new Terminator movie – a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day – which is being directed […]

James Cameron: “If Avatar 2 and 3 don’t make enough money, there’s not going to be a 4 and 5”

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After close to a decade in development, production is now finally underway on James Cameron’s Avatar sequels, with the filmmaker embarking on his hugely ambitious plan to shoot four films consecutively. The production will however be taking a break between the first two sequels and the latter two, and it seems that Avatar 4 and […]

James Cameron on the technical challenges of shooting underwater on the Avatar sequels

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Although plot details on James Cameron’s four Avatar sequels are being kept tightly under wraps, we do know that the movies will explore the oceans of Pandora, with Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 in particular set to feature a number of underwater sequences. Given that the Avatar movies rely heavily on performance capture, this change […]

James Cameron’s Titanic returns to the big screen for 20th anniversary

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Paramount Pictures and AMC Theatres have announced that they are celebrating the 20th anniversary of James Cameron’s Titanic with an exclusive one-week engagement in Dolby Cinema at AMC, including 20 locations supporting 3D. “We mastered a few minutes of Titanic in Dolby Vision and I was stunned. It was like seeing it for the first time. Now […]

Review: James Horner A Life In Music at the Royal Albert Hall

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Sean Wilson reviews the tribute concert in memory of the late Titanic composer… It takes a special composer to stamp a singular and enduring personality over the films they score, but James Horner was that person. Tragically killed in a plane crash in 2015 Horner’s death was  massive blow for the soundtrack industry, the loss […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger says Terminator 6 will keep it simple

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While promoting his hitman comedy Killing Gunther, former T-800 and “pops”, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been talking about the Tim Miller (Deadpool) directed and James Cameron produced Terminator reboot. Set to begin production in March, Arnie told Business Insider that the much maligned Terminator: Genisys was simply too complicated, assuring fans burnt by the diminishing returns of […]