If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! James Cameron has been chin-wagging about the sequel to his 3D alien epic which wowed some, and left others distinctly underwhelmed. We’d already heard that Sigourney Weaver was set to return in her lead role. Although quite how, exactly, [...]
Avatar has blasted its way to monumental success in the box office, on DVD, and just about everywhere, really, so the sequel was inevitable and swiftly announced. However, it seems that the film, which is due to be set under the waves of Pandora’s oceans rather than in the forests and cliff-tops seen in the [...]
Didn’t think Avatar was long enough? Then check out Avatar: Special Edition when it comes out on August 27th. It will be exclusively in Digital 3D and Imax 3D, Variety reports, and James Cameron has tacked another eight minutes of previously unseen footage onto the film. This idea will have some people gnashing their teeth [...]
The 36th Annual Saturn Awards were presented on 24 June in Los Angeles by the Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror Films. James Cameron’s film Avatar was named Best Science Fiction Film. Avatar also garnered four acting awards as well as nods for Best Director and Best Writer for Cameron, Best Music for James [...]
The Nebula Awards, voted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SWFA), will be awarded at a banquet during meetings to be held 14 – 16 May 2010 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Nebulas have been awarded every year since the SWFA was founded in 1965 and are voted by the writers themselves, [...]
In some places the 3D Sci-Fi, film Avatar is still doing rounds and already there is talk of a sequel or prequel whatever the case may be. But making another Avatar based film may be a lot more difficult than it would first sound as the according to the Avatar producer Jon Landau as he [...]
The 3D experience of Avatar has left some people with a void in their lives and the problem is that there is nothing around at the moment to fill that void; it is a classic sales takeaway. This happens when the consumer desires something more if it is taken away from them. But for Avatar [...]
For the film industry there are certain gauges to determine how successful the project has been, first up is the box office takings and it is the award ceremonies that lead up to the Oscars. For James Cameron and his latest masterpiece Avatar, the first hurdle has been passed and they are now closing in [...]
The investment appears to have paid off and once again film director James Cameron is god, although there are some records that still have to be broken Avatar is fast becoming a record breaker. It looks as if the film is set to become the fastest film ever to reach the $1 billion mark, although [...]
So he has just made the most expensive movie ever made, that is in 3D and set on another planet, what now for James Cameron? The main rumour is the a film called the Doomsday Protocol will be the next project, the screenplay is currently being written by Shane Salerno, but at what stage this [...]
With the big budget 3D movie Avatar on the verge of being released, it seems that the director James Cameron is already planning his next project. Apparently it is going to be a science fiction epic! So what was Avatar then? According to the director himself, he is working on developing a script by Shane [...]
If the news is to be taken any notice of, the world is still experiencing a financial crisis. Therefore, this would mean that everyone would be cutting back and trying to save money right! Everyone except those involved in the production of the much publicised Avatar, for according to the New York Times the eventual [...]
They say that creative people often come up similar ideas, so is there s fine line between a blatant rip off and just two people coming up with the same ideas. It seems that the much awaited 3D film Avatar is very similar to a short story called Call Me Joe, written by Poul Anderson [...]
At the moment when we think of James Cameron the thought of Avatar, pops invariably turns up and yet is this just because it is science fiction or just because this film is all we seem to hear about. But someone like James Cameron has a lot of projects running at the same time, one [...]
The hottest sci-fi property of the year so far is James Cameron’s Avatar, filmed entirely in 3D this is a film that is set to take the world by storm and at the same time shake up the film industry at the same time. Well it seems that all of the editing work has now [...]
It is amazing to think that the current “Buzz” film, Avatar was written over fourteen years ago and yet only now has the technology reach such a level that the film can be made in a way that will do it justice. James Cameron is well known for innovative ideas, but Avatar is set to [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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