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**AVATAR UNIVERSE EXPANDS TO THREE SEQUELS **James Cameron Hires Writers to Collaborate with Him on the Films

LONDON (August 2, 2013) __ Marking a significant expansion of his already ambitious plans for the much-anticipated AVATAR sequels, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker James Cameron announced today that the films have grown in number from two to three.

Additionally, to help bring his growing AVATAR universe to life and to expedite the process, Cameron has hired screenwriters Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planets of the Apes), and Shane Salerno (Savages, Salinger) to collaborate with him on the screenplays for the three films.

The three pictures will be filmed simultaneously with production beginning next year.  The release of the first sequel will be in December 2016, with the second to follow in December 2017, and the third a year later. AVATAR 2, 3, and 4 will be produced by Cameron and Jon Landau through their Lightstorm Entertainment banner. Like the original film, Lightstorm will work with Joe Letteri and his team at WETA Digital to realize the worlds of the sequels.

Commented Cameron:  “Building upon the world we created with AVATAR has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience.  In writing the new films, I’ve come to realize that AVATAR’s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen. And to help me continue to expand this universe, I’m pleased to bring aboard Amanda, Rick, Shane and Josh -- all writers I’ve long admired -­ to join me in completing the films screenplays.”

Commented 20th Century Fox chairman and CEO, Jim Gianopulos: “We at the studio have no higher priority, and can feel no greater joy, than enabling Jim to continue and expand his vision of the world of AVATAR. The growing breadth and scale of Jim Cameron’s plans for his magnificent fantasy worlds continue to amaze us all.”

AVATAR is the highest grossing film of all time, and is also the top-selling Blu-ray disc of all time. The film won Golden Globe® awards for Best Motion Picture and Best Director; and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won Oscars for art direction, visual effects and cinematography.

AVATAR was written by Cameron from an idea he nurtured for over a decade, while working on the technology necessary to realize its wholly imagined world. Working with WETA Digital, Cameron created a fully immersive 3D cinematic experience of a new kind, where revolutionary technology that was invented to make the film disappeared into the emotion of the characters and the epic nature of the story.

The three AVATAR sequels will mark Cameron’s latest collaborations with 20th Century Fox, a relationship that spans nearly 30 years and marks one of the most successful filmmaker-studio alliances in motion picture history. Cameron and Fox first joined forces in 1985 for Aliens, which became a sci-fi classic. Next came The Abyss, which revolutionized visual effects technology; then came the blockbuster, True Lies. In 1996, Fox greenlighted Cameron’s Titanic, which became the most successful film in history, and won a record-breaking eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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About 20th Century Fox

One of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, 20th Century Fox produces, acquires and distributes motion pictures throughout the world. These motion pictures are produced or acquired by the following units: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox International Productions and Twentieth Century Fox Animation. 

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Yahoo! Now if I can just live that long. Going on 66.

Thanks for that heads up Rosie but maybe ArtByMivan and myself can get a special viewing since I'm right behind him. :lol:

Great news!!

Lol..thought you would find it great news. Now where is AS?? 

Hi rosie,

thanks for that information!

Now let's see, what they will make of this "Giant Smurfs in Space" movie series.  ;)

Hubert

Quote - Thanks for that heads up Rosie but maybe ArtByMivan and myself can get a special viewing since I'm right behind him. :lol:

 

I see only two of us are admitting our ages!

Oh..am way younger than all of you..i think.... 

*Oh..am way younger than all of you..i think.... *

Careful, Rosie. I know your real age...................

We're all gonna be quite a bit older when the last Avatar finally comes out, lol.

Looks like its going to be around 2019 before we see Cameron complete "Battle Angel" now. Unfortunate, but I'm biased towards loving Avatar, so can't really complain. ;o)

AS

Ahem..Chris... think me popping in in January... be careful..be very careful..just completed watching The Godfather..all three parts..  :sneaky:

AS.. I'm eternally and forever 16! :lol:

Oh Rosie! I just watched the Underworld, Alien, and SAW movies...............

oh an I'll be sure to have some roast lamb ready for you......

oh...meanie of the 100th degree. LEAVE THAT LAMB ALONE!! 

LOL...maybe you should offer her some Snuffy seal steaks.

NO!! Quest..LEAVE POOR SNUFFY ALONE! Hmmmf

OOO Marinated seal pup steaks, with a few bunny legs and lava bread!!!

Hmm..in India now.. shall I send you both some mozzies over? They make really good Vitamin Z meals you know... not to mention..they sing such lovely lullabies... :glare:

LEAVE THOSE SEALS, LAMBS, BUNNIES ALONE!!! 

Stop it Bryster! You're making me hungry! Hmmmm, lamb and veal gravy over fried bunny with turtle steak and puppy tongue soup...........................

Artbymivan..you just made a really bad enemy out of me... 

LEAVE THOSE SEALS, LAMBS, BUNNIES, TURTLES, AND PUPPES ALONE!!! 

And as a treat, for pudding, we could have skinned kitten fritters.................

PETA!! SPCA!!! HELP!! 

LEAVE THOSE SEALS, LAMBS, BUNNIES, TURTLES, PUPPiES AND KITTENS ALONE!!!! 

may the power cut we gonna have from 10-5 today be on your heads, may all the mozzies that are chewing me up chew you up, and may the continuous nonstop rain of a month fall on you. 

What the heck are mozzies?

mosquitoes

Oh...mosquitos...nasty little buggers. Hay, AgentSmith made an appearance here. Damn, missed him. Wonder how he's doing in the business?

Woops, sorry for the delay there, I lost sight of this thread.

Right now, I'm trying my hand at film poster work; the professional, paying side for rent/food and some personal stuff for myself to see if I can get into that niche market as a stand alone artist, which I think would be very cool if that could happen one day.

But...If I get the Avatar call...I WILL be packing my bags for New Zealand, no doubt, that would be fun just for the aspect of being able to go to to NZ!

AS

Doing an Avatar sequel would not be so easy if you aim for excellence and originality. What possible story line would be able to pull it off?  Another interstellar battle?  Only a genius could come up with a great sequel, and I have my doubts, as genius minds seem to be on a slow path to extinction.