James Cameron to work on BBC’s 3D film

ACADEMY Award-winning director James Cameron is to supply his 3D filmmaking expertise for the BBC’s forthcoming multi-million pound Walking with Dinosaurs film.

Cameron | Pace, the joint venture between Cameron and 3D technology expert Vince Pace, will provide its Fusion 3D technology to Walking with Dinosaurs 3D, produced jointly by BBC Earth, Evergreen Films and Reliance Big Entertainment. The part CGI, part live-action 3D drama will combine factual content with the story of a dinosaur family living 70 million years ago. Fox holds the distribution rights to Walking With Dinosaurs 3D, and expects to release the film in the US, UK, France, Australia, Japan and several other countries in 2013.

Cameron, who was named a National Geographic explorer-in-residence in June, said: “Walking With Dinosaurs 3D offers a fantastic opportunity to push our advances in 3D even further.

“We’re inspired by the creative ambition behind the film and the opportunity to work on a feature that aims to bring audiences a real, visceral experience.” At the IBC conference in Amsterdam, Cameron | Pace announced that Alaska-based Evergreen Films is the first studio to be “CPG Certified”, meaning it will rely exclusively on Cameron | Pace technology and expertise to produce 3D content. Source

James Cameron is done with Avatar

Filmmaker James Cameron has said that he will not revisit Avatar following the release of the definitive director's cut in November. Cameron is determined not to squeeze any more mileage out of Avatar and has promised to close the door on the fantasy film once his final version is out.

"No, I'm not going back to this. There's no re-visiting this downstream and I don't see it coming back into theatres at all unless 20 years from now they want to do something and I'm a doddering old guy who can't stop them," dailystar.co.uk quoted him as saying.

The moviemaker re-released his record-breaking 3D hit last month with an extra nine minutes of footage and plans to put out an ultimate director's cut on DVD in November, which will include further seven minutes footage.

However, the news does not spell the end of the Avatar franchise as Cameron is planning a sequel in 2014.

James Cameron to make 3D movie on Amazon tribes

Filmmaker James Cameron is planning to make a 3D movie highlighting the plight of indigenous people who will be uprooted by the construction of a dam on the Amazon river.

The Avatar director is fighting to ban the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on the Xingu river, an Amazon tributary, but his protests failed to keep President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from approving plans last week.

Contactmusic.com reports that Cameron now plans to show his support by shooting a movie about the lives of the local tribes.

I want to return to meet some of the leaders of the Xikrin-Kayapo tribe who invited me. I want to take a 3D camera to film how they live, their culture," he said.

James Cameron Facing 'Avatar' Lawsuit

James Cameron is facing a lawsuit from an author who alleges the filmmaker stole his idea for blockbuster movie Avatar.

Writer Kelly Van alleges Cameron based the movie, which became the world's highest-grossing film earlier this year, on his online book Sheila the Warrior: The Damned? Cameron insists he's never seen the story, but Van has filed papers alleging both the director and movie studio 20th Century Fox plagiarized his plotline and character details. Van claims the "demeanor," "attire," "motions" and "powers/rituals" of the Na'vi characters, as well as the "settings" and "scenes" are based entirely on her work.

However, a spokesperson for Fox, Chris Petrikin, has slammed the lawsuit, saying in a statement, "It's absolutely baseless. Jim Cameron's treatment for Avatar was written before Ms. Van alleges she even started to write her book."

Cameron reportedly completed Avatar's script in 1998, but Van's attorney Kevin Mirch insists: "We did a lot of research, and the copyright says Avatar was copyrighted on April 1 of 2007. The date of (Van's) creation was in 2000, and it was published on the Internet in 2003. Avatar was done much later. It's just contrary to what they said to us - which they did in a very rude manner. (Cameron's) lawyer wrote us a letter saying they would go after our law firm and our client if it wasn't dismissed immediately. To have letters that say they're going to sue us and they're going to bankrupt us is bad business."

In March, a court in China dismissed a lawsuit from writer Zhou Shaomou, who claimed Cameron had copied the plot from his 1997 novel, The Legend of the Blue Crow.