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New Zealand is due to end social distancing and all other domestic coronavirus restrictions beginning tomorrow, the government has announced. In doing so, the South Pacific nation with a population of about 5M, becomes the largest market to so far eliminate transmission of COVID-19. Announcing today that there were no…

Production resuming on the Avatar sequels moved a step closer after director James Cameron and producer Jon Landau touched down in New Zealand on Sunday. Landau revealed the news in an Instagram post of the pair sporting coronavirus protective masks and visors. He noted that they will now need to observe a 14-day…

Filming on James Cameron’s long-in-the-works Avatar sequels has been suspended in New Zealand due to coronavirus. Producer Jon Landau told the New Zealand Herald, “We’ve delayed it. We had plans to come down Friday night with a group of people and start back up and we made the decision to hold off and continue working…

UPDATED WITH RESPONSES FROM JAMES CAMERON, JON LANDAU & PATRICK WHITESELL: Emma Watts has just resigned as President of Production at 20th Century Studios. Her existing creative team remains in place, and a new leader is expected to be named in the coming weeks. Disney reports there are no current changes to 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: Ten years ago this week, James Cameron big gambit payed off with the historic release of Avatar,  a truly singular screen spectacle that took moviegoers to distant Pandora and in the process “changed the way we thought about movies, the way we thought about movie-making, even the way we thought about the…

That’s a wrap on filming this year for James Cameron's forthcoming Avatar sequel. The official Avatar Twitter account shared a behind-the-scenes photo Friday to mark the end of live-action filming for the year. The picture offered a behind-the-scenes look at a craft called the “Sea Dragon.” “That’s a wrap, Na’vi…

Disney said Friday that James Cameron’s Avatar will be available on Day 1 of the launch of its Disney+ streaming service on November 12, when it will become the groundbreaking film’s exclusive subscription streaming home. The SVOD platform will carry films from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and Lucasfilm, but it’s…

EXCLUSIVE: When Avengers: Endgame surpassed Avatar to claim the title of the highest-grossing film in history, it ended one of the most impressive reigns in the annals of screen entertainment: James Cameron, first with Titanic (1997) and then with Avatar (2009), had owned the top spot on the all-time chart for a…

UPDATE, 10:58 AM: Avatar director James Cameron paid tribute online earlier today to Avengers: Endgame moving past his Pandora epic this weekend to become the highest-grossing movie ever worldwide. Now Endgame directors the Russo Brothers have paid tribute back to the record-breaking Oscar winner with a powerfully…

Marvel boss Kevin Feige made it official Saturday at the studio’s Comic-Con panel, announcing Avengers: Endgame is clicking past Avatar‘s $2.7897 billion global box office this weekend to become the biggest film of all time. It took nine years for the record to fall, but it finally happened. There is currently a gap…

For close to a decade, it’s been an impossible task for any film trying to beat Avatar‘s mammoth all-time global box office record of $2.79 billion. In fact, it’s a box office feat filmmaker James Cameron actually had to top himself: Prior to Avatar, Cameron’s Titanic with a lifetime of $2.19B worldwide was the…

Marvel boss Kevin Feige announced to journos at a recent Spider-Man: Far From Home junket that Disney is putting Avengers: Endgame back in theaters on June 28 with a cut that has a new post credits scene, a tribute and a few surprises. Feige was specific that the new edition of the Russo Brothers-directed $2.74…