Box Office: ‘Avatar 3’ Dominates Christmas With M for 0M Global Crown, Timothée Chalamet Strikes Again

Box Office: ‘Avatar 3’ Dominates Christmas With $88M for $760M Global Crown, Timothée Chalamet Strikes Again

James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash dominated the long Christmas weekend with a four-day earnings of $88 million, including $64 million for the three-day weekend proper. While it’s lagging behind the last film at the same point its run, Fire and Ash is still a monster, grossing another $181.2 million overseas for a global tally…

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Christmas Has Never Been So Bingeable

Christmas Has Never Been So Bingeable

Remember when Christmas was for family? Or maybe even for Jesus — like, the guy it’s literally named for? (Quick Biblical lesson: Dec. 25 is Jesus Christ’s birthday. It’s also Rickey Henderson’s.) For those who don’t celebrate — Christmas, not Rickey Henderson’s birthday — Dec. 25 was always a day for the the movies. And…

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Box Office: ‘Avatar 3’ Rings Out Very Merry Year for Disney, Studio Hits  Billion in Global Revenue in a Post-Pandemic First

Box Office: ‘Avatar 3’ Rings Out Very Merry Year for Disney, Studio Hits $6 Billion in Global Revenue in a Post-Pandemic First

While overall box office revenue won’t make any gains in 2025, the same can’t be said of Disney. The studios sprawling film empire on Wednesday will cross the $6 billion mark in global box office revenue for the year, having earned $5.967 billion globally through Tuesday, including $2.310 million domestically and $3.656 million internationally.   This marks the first time Disney…

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Zoe Saldaña Wants James Cameron to Make an ‘Avatar’ Doc That Celebrates Motion Capture Acting

Zoe Saldaña Wants James Cameron to Make an ‘Avatar’ Doc That Celebrates Motion Capture Acting

Zoe Saldaña wants audiences to truly understand the skill and talent that go into motion capture performances, like in James Cameron‘s Avatar movies. The Oscar-winning actress shared during a recent interview with Alicia Keys for Beyond Noise that the filmmaker “is considering a documentary about the making of Avatar — finally giving us a chance to…

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‘Avatar’ and ‘Lincoln’ Production Designer Gets Oscars Replaced After Losing Them in L.A. Wildfires

‘Avatar’ and ‘Lincoln’ Production Designer Gets Oscars Replaced After Losing Them in L.A. Wildfires

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has replaced legendary production designer Rick Carter’s two Oscars after they were lost in the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year. Carter, who won two Academy Awards for his work on 2009’s Avatar and 2012’s Lincoln, was among thousands whose homes were destroyed when wildfires ripped through…

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#James Cameron Talks ‘Avatar,’ ‘Alien: Romulus’ and Whales in Spicy Chat: “Damn Right I’m Overbearing”

#James Cameron Talks ‘Avatar,’ ‘Alien: Romulus’ and Whales in Spicy Chat: “Damn Right I’m Overbearing”

You gotta love James Cameron when he’s the most James Cameron. The Oscar-winning writer-producer-director got on the phone to talk about his new National Geographic documentary OceanXplorers and from there we branched out to touch on a host of other Cameron-verse topics — like this week’s release of Alien: Romulus, Netflix’s upcoming animated series Terminator…

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