LONDON (Reuters) - "Avatar" director James Cameron and Russian conductor Valery Gergiev will beam the world's first live 3D ballet broadcast to 50 countries from Russia's Mariinsky theatre in June. Cinema audiences across Europe, the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and elsewhere will be able to watch Ekaterina Kondaurova dance the role of Odette/Odile in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" at the 19th century opera house on June 6, production company Omniverse Vision said in a statement...Read Full Story

MTV Movies Blog Just another WordPress site 'Avatar' Sequels Will Use Underwater Performance Capture Apr 8th 2013, 15:00 The people of Pandora are taking a plunge, and the cameras are going along for the dive. "Avatar" producer Jon Landau confirmed during a recent conversation at the NAB Technology Summit on Cinema in Las Vegas that James Cameron's upcoming sequels will indeed utilize underwater performance capture. "We could simulate water [in computer graphics], but we can't...Read Full Story

Monday, 18 March 2013 04:01 Tidbits - Tidbits ← Soccer: I may have played with new Pope, Di Stefano says   Emma Watson responds to 50 Shades rumours → James Cameron is currently hard at work on bringing the Avatar sequels to life, but has taken time out to give a brief update on how things are progressing in Pandora. “I'm working on Avatar 2 and Avatar 3,” says Cameron to Play Goes Strong. “I was talking the other day with Peter Jackson...Read Full Story

Director James Cameron is going to be using underwater motion capture for his upcoming sequels to the mega-hit Avatar, according to Deadline. Avatar During the National Association of Broadcasting Summit on Cinema in Las Vegas, key note speaker and Avatar producer Jon Landau told the crowd about the development, saying, “We want to take advantage of the technologies brilliant people are putting out to make the next two movies even more emotionally engaging and visually tantalizing, and to...Read Full Story

'I'm almost there right now...'James Cameron is not in Kansas anymore, he's on Pandora. Well, kinda. Technically, he's in farmhouse somewhere in New Zealand, hunched over a typewriter (or similar), and nuggeting out scripts for Avatars 2 and 3, but his mind is very much on the blue planet."I'm almost there", he tells website Play Goes Strong of the writing process, "it's building fast. I'm deep into it. There is that start-up torque where you feel it's coming to you and then you build up...Read Full Story