Avatar Sees 45% Increase in Ticket Sales on Fandango Following Oscar Nominations
“Avatar“’s nine Academy Award® nominations may have created an increased demand for tickets on Fandango, the nation’s leading moviegoer destination. “Avatar”, already the site’s top ticket-seller in company history, saw daily sales increase by 45% shortly after the Oscar ® nominations were announced this morning.
Moviegoers appear to be pleased with the concept of the Academy®’s new and expanded Best Picture category, which recognized such popular hits as “Avatar”, “The Blind Side“, “Up” and “District 9“, among others. In an online poll on Fandango, 83% of moviegoers say they like the fact that the category now includes 10 nominees.
In a separate survey posted on Fandango today, fans picked the movies they would have liked to have seen nominated in this year’s expanded category.
2010 BAFTA Nominations
The 2010 BAFTA nominations have been announced. The British film awards, celebrating talent both homegrown and international has become the main precursor to The Oscars.”The Hurt Locker,” “An Education” and “Avatar” leading the way with eight nods
The surprise on this year’s list is the Peter Jackson-produced and South Africa-set sci-fi film “District 9,” which secured seven nominations, one more than “Inglourious Basterds” and “Up in the Air.“
In the best actor category, nominees include Golden Globe winner Jeff Bridges (“Crazy Heart”), George Clooney (“Air”), Colin Firth ( “A Single Man”), Jeremy Renner (“Locker”) and Andy Serkis (“Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”).
The BAFTA winners will be announced in a ceremony in London at London’s Royal Opera House on February 21.
Here is the full list of nominees:
BEST FILM
- Avatar – James Cameron, Jon Landau
- An Education – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer
- The Hurt Locker – Nominees TBC
- Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
- Up In the Air – Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
- An Education – Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
- Fish Tank – Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
- In the Loop – Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche
- Moon – Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
- Nowhere Boy – Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh
22-Minute “Avatar” Featurette: “Creating The World of Pandora”
Yahoo movies has posted a 22-minute long behind the scenes look at the making of “Avatar,” which features a full look at the creation of the James Cameron’s sci-fi epic hit movie!
See how James Cameron creates his latest epic, from the first draft written in 1995, to the extensive development and casting process, all the way through the massive digital effects work and editing process. It’s a fascinating look at how unorthodox methods had to be implemented to achieve the daunting task of bringing such a radically different film like Avatar to the big screen.
The film stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang and Matt Gerald. Director James Cameron helmed from a story he wrote.
Avatar 3-D Images Help to Identify Vision Problems
With Avatar now heading into its fifth week as a box office hit, many people are headed to movie theaters to see what the excitement over 3-D is all about. Unfortunately, many of them may be disappointed because they didn’t know they can’t see 3-D.
While the concept of being “3-D ready” means that the new 3-D TVs, showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, will be able to provide 3-D viewing, the College of Optometrists in Vision Development state that our eyes need to be “3-D ready” to be able to fully enjoy Avatar. In other words, you need to be able to see 3-D for the entire 2 hours and 40 minutes of riveting 3-D action.
The 3-D version of Avatar has two images projected on the screen, each image seen by one eye. The images are then merged into one by your brain. If the images aren’t perceived correctly, it will be very difficult to merge or fuse the images into 3-D. The technology behind the Avatar 3-D effects is based on the premise that the viewer has the ability to see 3-D.
Avatar Review
Avatar is a fantasy/sci-fi epic that takes place on Pandora, a lush, green planet where an humanoid alien race known as the Na’vi live in total harmony with nature. Humans want to get their hands on some of the valuable minerals contained beneath the planet’s surface, but in order to do that, they need to relocate the natives. To gather intelligence and learn more about their culture, the U.S. military creates genetic Na’vi clones that can be controlled remotely by human soldiers using a neural link. When Jake Sully, a wheelchair-bound Marine, infiltrates the Na’vi clan, he soon finds himself torn between two bodies and two opposing ways of life…read more [FilmJunk]
I just got back home from the world premiere of Avatar here in London. It’s safe to keep reading. You are entering a spoiler-free zone.
I wasn’t expecting much. I attended the 15 minute IMAX preview a few months back and out of context what I saw was pretty. Very pretty. The immersive technology was an obvious step up, but the scenes with the marines came across as just weird on the eye and the sequences with all the alien fauna gave me flashbacks to James Mason clambering through mushrooms forests in Journey to the Centre of the Earth. But what really had me worried was the story…read more [Twitch]
Two New Avatar Featurettes
Today we have two new featurettes for James Cameron’s highly anticipated film “Avatar” that shows even more scenes from the movie and Sigourney Weaver talking about the planet Pandora.
Avatar, Sigourney Weaver and Sam Worthington
Plot summary: An ex-Marine finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people.
“Avatar” is being released in 3D theatres and IMAX 3D on December 18th.
10-Minute Avatar Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
A brand new 10 minute behind the scenes clip of James Cameron’s “Avatar“, called “Making a Scene: Avatar“, has hit the web and features some of the cast talking about the highly anticipated film.
Synopsis: In a distant future, humanity discovers the planet ‘Alpha Centauri B-4′, and for those scientists and astronauts who’ve traversed the gulf between neighboring suns and arrived on its alien soil know it as ‘Pandora’. A world filled with an incredible diversity of beautiful and deadly ammonia-breathing lifeforms. Its also a world that harbors treasures and resources almost beyond price. But just as the original Pandora’s Box wrought devastation on those who would use it for their own gain, so too this world may destroy not just the Pandorans home, but ours as well.
Extended Avatar Clip: Thandor Chase
20th Century Fox has released a new extended “Avatar” clip that features the Thandor chasing Jake Sully’s (Sam Worthington) avatar.
In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.
The action-adventure also stars Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, Matt Gerald and opening December 18 in conventional 3D theaters and IMAX 3D.
13 Minutes “Avatar” on “60 Minutes”
CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired a profile on director James Cameron and his sci-fi epic “Avatar” movie on Sunday, confirming pretty much every bit of news, including that the film is approaching the $500 million price tag and that it is still unfinished. Avatar is marks Cameron’s first directorial work since his Oscar winning film, “Titanic,” back in 1997.
Story centers on Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he’s still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for, and he finds it in the place he least expected: on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person’s consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora’s indigenous humanoids, the Na’vi. This human-Na’vi hybrid – a fully living, breathing body that resembles the Na’vi but possesses the individual human’s thoughts, feelings and personality – is known as an “avatar.”
New Avatar Featurette: Colonel Quaritch
We have added a new featurette for 20th Century Fox and James Cameron’s “Avatar” that focuses on Colonel Quaritch, played by Stephen Lang.
Plot summary: An ex-Marine finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people.
This live action movie, with a new generation of special effects, which also stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi and Matt Gerald, will be released on December 18th 2009.
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