When James Cameron delivered Avatar in 2009, none of us quite grasped that this was not a movie but a constellation of movies – one that will represent a multibillion-dollar investment in the coming years. One iteration is even booked for 2028.
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James Cameron is revealing that Leonardo DiCaprio almost didn’t get to be Jack Dawson in 1997’s Titanic because he didn’t want to read for the part.
“I remember there was a meeting with Leo. And then there was a screen test with Leo,” Cameron recalled during an interview with GQ. “So the meeting was…
EXCLUSIVE: To celebrate the 25th anniversary of James Cameron's Titanic, the multiple Oscar winner and box office phenomenon has been set for a fresh theatrical release just in time for Valentine's Day next year. A remastered version will be available in cinemas in 3D 4K HDR and high-frame rate, with Disney releasing…
Oscar-winning production designer, art director and set decorator Peter Lamont has died. Lamont, along with longtime collaborator Peter Ford, was responsible for the aesthetic of nearly every James Bond film from Goldfinger through 2006’s Casino Royale. That’s no small feat, given the series’ high standards for…
Some things never get old. Re-creating Leonardo DiCaprio’s famous arms-outstretched King of the World scene from Titanic isn’t one of those things, but when you have a ready-for-anything Céline Dion at your disposal, who could resist?
Not James Corden, certainly. On last night’s The Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Prime…
Continuing a tradition of Hollywood heavies praising the wins of others, James Cameron late Wednesday tweeted his huzzahs to Marvel and producer Kevin Feige on Avengers: Endgame's success after the MCU series-ender overtook Titanic as the No. 2 movie ever at the global and international box office.
Over an image of…
Now that one of Hollywood’s great studios, 20th Century Fox, has merged into another named Disney, let’s reflect, as a form of final tribute to a proud former stand-alone major, on one of Fox’s great legacies: its Oscars. Its track record with the Academy is far better than the studio that just swallowed it up.
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Oscar-winning set decorator Michael Ford, who worked on franchises including Star Wars, Bond and Indiana Jones, has died aged 90.
During a glittering career, Ford won Oscars for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration in 1982 for Raiders Of The Lost Arkand in 1998 for his work on Titanic. He also received Academy Award…
As we know, one way activists like to energize a serious campaign is to make them fun. That’s the approach taken by a group of young UK campaigners who want to shine a light on the lack of on-screen diversity.
In what one local communications director described as the PR stunt of the day, a group of young black…
With Disney’s $66B acquisition of key 21st Century Fox assets, today marks the dismantling of a legendary studio that got its start all the way back in 1904 — about a century ahead of the iconic New York Street set (and the lamented poor cell-reception in Building 88) of the Pico Boulevard lot. Times have suddenly…