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Will Arabs and Israelis Unite in Their Fascination With UFOs?

While presidents and military leaders have never successfully bridged or solved the political and cultural problems of the Middle East, can UFOs and zombies bring Israelis and Palestinians together? That's the vision of many filmmakers, including Israeli director David Gidali, who, along with cinematographer Itay Gross,...

Birth, 2.0: Many Babies Born Online Before Real Life

(Oct. 7) -- In Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's "The Social Network," a cocaine-addled Sean Parker, played by Justin Timberlake, rattles off a vision of the future that, depending on your point of view, is either dystopia or utopia. "We lived on farms, we lived in cities," he says. "Now we'll live on the Internet." For...

George Lucas Will Re-Release 'Star Wars' in 3-D (Yawn)

(Sept. 29) -- George Lucas can't help himself. Critically, and arguably artistically, it's been all downhill for the "Star Wars" franchise since the second installment, "The Empire Strikes Back." But the money kept pouring in, even as Lucas introduced such awful characters as Jar Jar Binks, while the dialogue, never...

Roger Corman Celebrates 'Piranha' 32 Years Later

(Aug. 20) -- Folks in Hollywood used to say that filmmaker Roger Corman was the only guy in Tinseltown who could negotiate a deal in the booth, use the booth as a set and finance the film using the change in the coin slot. Of course, that was when phone booths were still common. These days, it's hard to find a phone...

Marching Bands Go Gaga for Lady Gaga

(Aug. 13) -- As a genre, marching band music hasn't topped the charts since the days of composer John Philip Sousa, but it's still a good way to get the beat of what's big in pop culture. If that's the case, then Lady Gaga's music should be heard as much on football fields as it is in dance clubs this fall. According to...

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'Avatar': James Cameron Promises More Follow-Ups, Not Interested In Making Any Other Films

James Cameron has revealed his plans to focus on more Avatar follow-ups.

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Good News For 'Avatar' Fans

This February 2012 file photo provided by National Geographic, shows explorer and filmmaker James Cameron emerging from the hatch of DEEPSEA CHALLENGER during testing of the submersible in Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, Australia.

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James Cameron TV: Deepsea Challenger Dive To Debut On National Geographic Channel

Barely a month after filmmaker James Cameron piloted a newfangled submersible to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, audiences can get an inside look at the historic expedition that for the first time sent a lone human to the deepest place on Earth.

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James Cameron, Google Execs Team Up On Mysterious Space Project

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with "Avatar" director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, details of which will be unveiled next week.

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James Cameron: The Future Of 3D Will Be Defined By TV

This week in Las Vegas he spoke not to the movie industry, but to television broadcasters at the NAB convention about how important TV is to the future of 3D.

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05/25/12 3-D feature films are no longer a novelty Source: Moose Jaw Times Herald While trying to find inspiration to write this column, I stumbled across a news item that announced that the release date to the sequel to the movie G.I. Joe will be delayed for nine months to convert the whole movie into 3-D. G.I. Joe Retaliation was scheduled to come out on June 29 this year, but now it won't come out until March 29, 2013.
05/24/12 3D is not the answer to cinema's problems. How about... Source: The Guardian - London - UK There was a time â let's call it "2009"â when 3D looked like it could be the future of cinema.
05/23/12 AVENGERS XXX: A PORN PARODY Surprisingly Comic-Book... Source: Newsarama A Porn Parody made a billion dollars.
05/23/12 Opinionator | The Stone: Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi... Source: International Herald Tribune In the previous post, we looked at Philip K. Dick's intellectual and philosophical ties to the early Gnostics.
05/22/12 Box Office: THE AVENGERS Surpasses STAR WARS? Source: Alternative Film Guide With a cume of $463.35m after 18 days, Joss Whedon 's The Avengers has surpassed George Lucas ' Star Wars ($460.99m) at the domestic box office , thus officially becoming the fifth biggest blockbuster in history.

Background on Avatar

In Hinduism, an avatar' (pronounced as ; pronounced as , from Sanskrit in the Devanagari script, meaning "descent") is a deliberate descent of a deity to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being (i.e., Vishnu for Vaishnavites) and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation," but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation".

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