James Cameron: Last News

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter It looks like someone finally turned in his homework on time. James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Water,” the third and only installment in the saga that hasn’t been plagued by endless release date delays, unveiled the very first trailer on Thursday afternoon at CinemaCon, the annual gathering of movie theater owners in Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS – For a moment, you’re watching footage from a new “Avatar” movie and waiting to be impressed. Our heroes, the Sully family, are still living with the Metkayina clan.

The box office year has been sluggish, but if one movie is going to bring the industry back alive it’s James Cameron‘s Avatar: Fire and Ash on December 19.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Avatar — the master of elements and not the blue alien creatures created by James Cameron — graced the main stage at CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners. Paramount didn’t preview any footage of the film based on the popular “Avatar” television series, though the studio unveiled the official title: “The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender.” Previously titled “Aang: The Last Airbender,” the film takes place in a world divided into four nations — Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation and Air Nomads.

In a splashy 20-minute introductory segment at Disney‘s annual shareholder meeting, CEO Bob Iger touted a handful of film and TV projects as the company looks to maintain recent studio momentum.

With movie awards season over, and rumors that Adrian Brody’s Oscar acceptance speech is finally coming to an end, the year 2025 sees a surprising amount of faces coming straight back into the conversation. For one, Zoe Saldaña will be putting her Supporting Actress Oscar to good use on the publicity trail for one of the biggest tentpoles of the year: James Cameron’s Fire and Ash, the third in the Avatar series, in which she reprises her role as Na’vi princess Neytiri.

Donald Trump’s recent re-election.Addressing the decision during a nine-minute TikTok video posted on Tuesday (March 11), she said she and her son Clay had moved to the country, and that she was in the process of applying for citizenship.“Although I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that’s what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child” she said, “And here we are”.While Trump was not mentioned by name, O’Donnell made it clear that the political situation in the country has been the motivating factor. The celebrity has been a vocal critic of the billionaire even before his move to politics.“I miss many things about life there at home and I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country and when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back,” she revealed.

Jack Dunn James Cameron said his wife had an intense emotional reaction when she first watched his latest “Avatar” installment, “Fire and Ash.” In a conversation with Empire, Cameron said when he first showed his wife an early cut of the sci-fi epic, she was completely overcome with emotion and could not stop herself from crying. “My wife watched the whole thing from end to end. She had kept herself away from it and I wasn’t showing her bits and pieces as we went along.

Avatar and its sequel The Way Of Water were long, get ready for Fire and Ash.According to franchise creator and director James Cameron, Fire and Ash will be the longest film in the Avatar trilogy to date, but there’s a good reason why. For context, the original 2009 Avatar film ran for two hours and 42 minutes, while 2022’s The Way Of Water ran for three hours and 12 minutes.Speaking to Empire Magazine recently, Cameron shared that The Way Of Water had “too many great ideas” that were introduced that required being split into two films.Cameron explained: “In a nutshell, we had too many great ideas packed into act one of [The Way Of Water].

Filmmaker James Cameron, whose third Avatar installment is due out in December, says the film will be the longest in the franchise so far in terms of running time.

Avatar 3 is going to be a long one!

Jack Dunn Better make it a large popcorn, because James Cameron‘s next “Avatar” film, “Fire and Ash,” will be even longer than 2022’s “The Way of Water,” which clocked in at three hours and 12 minutes. In a recent sitdown with Empire, Cameron said he and his writers developed too much material for “The Way of Water,” and when production began, had to move some of the story from that movie into its sequel, “Fire and Ash.” “In a nutshell, we had too many great ideas packed into act one of movie 2,” Cameron said.

Mickey 17 and Parasite director Bong Joon-ho has said he would be open to making an Alien musical.Speaking in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, when asked about working on a blockbuster franchise like Star Wars or James Bond, he said: “I’m not drawn to franchise films, but I did think at one point that I would like to do an Alien film.”He then added: “An Alien musical.”The most recent movie in the long running franchise was Alien: Romulus, which was released last year and directed by Fede Álvarez. The film, which is set between the first two Alien films, featured highly in NME’s 20 Best Films of 2024.NME’s five-star review described it as being “as thrilling and scary as the original”, and “a movie that comes close to the brilliance of Ridley Scott and James Cameron”.A forthcoming TV series – Alien: Earth, which is set two years before the events of the original 1979 film Alien is also set to drop later this year on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in the UK.Meanwhile, Bong’s latest movie Mickey 17, which stars Robert Pattinson, is released in cinemas today (March 7).The film, which is an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7, sees Pattinson play Mickey Barnes, a man who signs up to be an “expendable”, a human that can regenerate after death, but finds multiple versions of himself confronting each other after a space expedition goes wrong.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Sam Worthington has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming Harlan Coben Netflix limited series adaptation of “I Will Find You,” Variety has learned. Variety exclusively reported the show was picked up at Netflix in November 2024.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Zoe Saldaña is an Oscar winner, and James Cameron is over the moon. The “Avatar” director shared his reaction to his leading lady’s victory by telling Variety: “I was so happy to see Zoe acknowledged as the world-class performer we, in the ‘Avatar’ family, have always known her to be. Her acceptance speech was a noble reminder of what immigrant families bring to the U.S.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com “Anora” director Sean Baker has become the first person to win four Oscars in the same year for the same film. During Sunday’s ceremony, Baker won Oscars for original screenplay, film editing, directing and best picture.

Oscars, has been the most prestigious awards ceremony for the film industry.It has undergone many changes since its first show in 1929, but the key constant are the film nominations, which have celebrated the likes of Ben-Hur, The Lord Of The Rings, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Silence Of The Lambs and many more over the years.This year’s bash, hosted by Conan O’Brien, marks the 97th edition of the event. The list of nominees is led by Emilia Pérez with 13 nominations, followed by the likes of The Brutalist, Wicked, Conclave, and A Complete Unknown.Three films hold the record for the most Oscar nominations, with Titanic (1997), All About Eve (1950), and La La Land (2016) all tied with 14 nominations each.James Cameron’s Titanic went onto win 11 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, while All About Eve and La La Land won six respectively.The record for the most Oscar wins is also a three-way tie, between Titanic (1997), Ben-Hur (1959) and The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (2003), which all won 11 Oscars each.

James Cameron says he is “sickened” by Donald Trump‘s re-election, and he is happy his New Zealand citizenship is “imminent”.While appearing on The Fucking News podcast, the Oscar-winning director was asked for his response to Trump becoming US president again, to which Cameron replied: “I think it’s horrific, I think it’s horrifying.”“I see a turn away from everything decent,” he said. “America doesn’t stand for anything if it doesn’t stand for what it has historically stood for.

As someone familiar with major shipwrecks, James Cameron has gotten out while the getting is good.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director James Cameron is sickened by Donald Trump‘s re-election and is happy his New Zealand citizenship is “imminent.” The Oscar-winning director appeared on “The F—ing News” podcast (via The Daily Beast) and was asked about his response to Trump becoming U.S. president again, to which Cameron responded: “I think it’s horrific, I think it’s horrifying.” “I see a turn away from everything decent,” Cameron said. “America doesn’t stand for anything if it doesn’t stand for what it has historically stood for.

Avatar franchise creator and director James Cameron has reportedly confirmed that Fire And Ash will include an anti-AI disclaimer – find out more below.Avatar: Fire And Ash – the title for the third film in the franchise was announced last August – is set for release on December 19, following 2009’s Avatar and sequel Avatar: The Way Of Water, which was released in 2022.Over the weekend, Cameron attended a Q&A session in New Zealand with a live audience to discuss the film. According to film graduate Josh Harding on X (formerly Twitter), Cameron has confirmed that Avatar: Fire And Ash will open with a title card that reads “no generative AI was used in the making of this movie”.Such an *incredible* talk.