“I couldn’t tell what was real and what was animated–even knowing that the 9-ft.-tall blue, dappled dude couldn’t possibly be real” said Josh Quittner regarding some footage of AVATAR he saw recently for Time Magazine.
The scenes were so startling and absorbing that the following morning, I had the peculiar sensation of wanting to return there, as if Pandora were real.
Now if you’re a film fan, that’s the quote that gets you excited for AVATAR, James Cameron’s over ten year in the making 3-D science fiction epic that will hit screens in December.
But if you’re a guy who likes to follow the business side of the movie industry, the same piece in Time Magazine casually blurt out the information that over a thousand people have worked on putting the $300 million movie together, which easily makes it the most expensive film of all time.
Previously Fox had stated the movie would cost $200 million.
Currently the most expensive film of all time is PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END which a few years ago was made for $300 million. But AVATAR’s $300 million comes before the expensive marketing, advertising and distributing stage.
In same article, which is well worth your time… Cameron insists every movie he makes from now on will be made with the 3-D digital format.
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Please learn to write, darling, and structure your stories properly. And it’s “you’re” not “your” in your opening line.
Structure, are you kidding?
If I had structure, I would be dangerous. I tend to write the headlines last… so structure is rarely something I bother about really.
Now I’m off to eat my breakfast, then cook it and buy the ingredients from the supermarket.
Oh well. Good looking site any how.
Madame Arcati you are wrong with your assumption that Matt used the incorrect grammar. Matt was indeed correct with his placement of the word “your”. “you’re” is a shortened form of “you are” so there you have it, all the way from the UK. Home of the English language. Sho Nuff
Oh it’s just genius!
Hi–I’m sorry to say: That $300 million is in error. We’re correcting it shortly on the website and in a correction in the next issue. The number should be $200 million, per Fox…
wow what a bitch…i didn’t know this was 5th grade english class..great article…got me wondering more about this movie. Kudos.
That Madame Arcati comment made me laugh out loud. “Darling.” Ha!