To get a feel of the top notch artistic talent that James Cameron has gathered for Avatar, explore AMZ's showcase of the incredible artists who have contributed to the science-fiction epic. The phenomenal visuals include the works of Ryan Church, Eddie Yang, James Clyne, Tex Kadonaga, Kasra Farahani, and more.
These talented artists tout a long resume of concept art accomplishments in previous films such as Transformers II, War of the Worlds, Star Trek, Iron Man, Men in Black, Spiderman, Transformers, Minority Report, and more.
A listing of Digital and Digital 3D Theaters worldwide distributed by Dolby Laboratories, RealD, DLP Cinema, and others. An interactive map is available displaying world regions including North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asian Pacific, South Asia, and the Middle East
The premiere specials effect master Stan Winston will always live on thru his legacy of legendary effects he created for all time film greats such as Terminator, Jurassic Park, Iron Man, and many more. AMZ provides this permanent tribute to the artist including filmography, biography, and more.
Explore the cinematic accomplishments of the legendary film maker James Cameron below including DVDs, soundtracks, posters, and more. Some of the films featured also provide an image gallery and or the video trailer.
New poll created October 4, 2008. Avatar will be added when the movie is released and the votes will be reset
ALL TIME WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE:
[M = Million U.S. Dollars]
1. Titanic - $1,842.9M
2. The Return of the King - $1,119.1M
3. Dead Man's Chest - $1,066.2M
4. The Dark Knight - $997.5M
5. Harry Potter/Srcr's. Stone - $976.5M
6. At World's End - $961M
7. The Order of the Phoenix - $938.5M
8. The Two Towers - $925.3M
9. The Phantom Menace - $924.3
10. Shrek 2 - $919.8M
11. Jurassic Park - $914.7M
12. The Goblet of Fire - $896M
13. Spider-Man 3 - $890.9 $336.5M
14. The Chamber of Secrets - $879M
15. The Fellowship of the Ring - $870.8M
16. Finding Nemo - $864.6MM
17. Revenge of the Sith - $849M
18. Spider-Man - $821.7M
19. Independence Day - $817.4M
20. Shrek the Third - $799M
Will it break into the top 20?
A Portal for James Cameron's Avatar
Avatar Movie Zone is an unofficial site dedicated to collecting all available online resources on James Cameron's Avatar. All resources are credited and links are provided if available. Explore a variety of Avatar topics including recent news, synopsis, interviews, biographies, image gallery, faq & trivia, video, the science & technology of Avatar, and much more.
Story: Avatar is the story of a wounded ex-marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in bio-diversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival.
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribissi, Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Wes Studi, CCH Pounder, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David Moore
Directed, Written, & Produced By: James Cameron
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Genre: Action/Science Fiction
Cinematography by: Mauro Fiore
Budget: $200 Million
Film Locations: Hawaii; California; New Zealand
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Jonay Bacallado's Concept Art Shows James Cameron's Alien Warrior
By Meredith Woerner | Excerpt: io9.com
Nov 21, 2008 - We've been waiting months for our first glimpse of the Na'vi, the aliens from James Cameron's new film Avatar. Too long have we subsisted on outlines and blurry set photos of our new alien pals.
Well wait no more — in an interview with plan.siete, concept artist Jonay Bacallado revealed a handful of beautiful concept art that he had created for Avatar. If they're the real deal, these creatures are truly a nod towards the women warriors of old-school science fiction.
Note: these images are high quality, not the poor quality images captured from the video interview. . . . .
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Hubble Telescope Snaps Alien Planet
The first planet to be directly seen outside of our own solar system has been revealed in a photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope.
By Richard Gray | Source: telegraph.co.uk
November 14, 2008 - The alien planet pictured by Hubble appears as a tiny red dot in the midst of a giant red dust ring.
The planet, which has been named Fomalhaut b and is around the same size as our own solar system's largest planet Jupiter, appears as a tiny red dot in the midst of a giant red dust ring orbiting the star Fomalhaut, which is around 25 light years from Earth.
The picture reveals for the first time what an alien planet outside our own solar system . . . . .
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Future is 3D BD, If Analysts Stop Sniping
By: Scott Hettrick | Source: hollywoodinhidef.com
I have seen the future of home media more clearly than ever.
That’s because I was looking at the future not through rose-colored glasses but through a pair of 3-D glasses viewing stunning images coming from a Blu-ray Disc at a private demonstration at Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory.
Unfortunately, bull-headed Blu-ray bashers seem determined to diminish the viability of the only format capable of delivering this and other new technologies to homes in the most meaningful way in the very near future. Here’s hoping that consumers and the industry’s new $25 million marketing campaign push past all the recent negative noise and make Blu-ray here to stay. . . . .
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Articles and interviews archived here at AMZ offer a variety of personal views and perspectives of Avatar from well known figures in the film industry including the Avatar cast and crew. But what is the buzz from the thousands of fans who patiently wait in the front row for the theater to darken and the screen lights up with that familiar 20th Century Fox logo? The gang over at the IMDB Avatar forum have been discussing James Cameron's Sci-fi epic for months and even years now. This AMZ feature highlights a few of those members words of perspective that seemed to stand out from the myriad of discussions currently taking place.
A descriptive collection of various Avatar creatures, locations, craft, and other subjects from James Cameron's old scriptment. As we note throughout this site, these should not be considered the final descriptions. It's most likely Cameron's final script could differ significantly.
Nevertheless, the scriptment creatures and locations are quite intriguing even as a stand alone read.
Often discussed is the intriguing story of Avatar and the groundbreaking 3D digital cinema James Cameron will present. However, any Cameron fan knows that he delivers a multi-facet gem in his sci-fi epics such as high-tech weaponry, military craft, and architecture. What futuristic constructs and hardware Cameron presents in Avatar will likely impress. AMZ's The Future is Here Series presents galleries of today's futuristic visions of tomorrow. Kicking off this series, Ultimate Architecture, will showcase buildings and skyscrapers that would be any film maker's dream to use as backdrops for their sci-fi film projects.
Have you Googled James Cameron's Avatar lately? Did you come up bone dry? We here at AMZ feel your pain. So allow us to provide a distraction while we wait these long months with some pretty cool sci-fi eye candy. AMZ's Cosmic Art Galleries is a macrocosm of artwork from known and unknown artists who have created visual wonders of our universe.
This AMZ feature will showcase a series of galleries including The Spacial and Alien Art Gallery, The Retro-Cosmic Art Gallery, Amazing Galactic Photography Gallery, and to kick off the series, The Alpha Artistic Gallery.
The Decades of Sci-Fi feature is a multi-segment series exploring Sci-Fi classics of each decade kicking off with the fabulous fifties. The series will then showcase the sci-fi greats from the sixties to the nineties. Prominents sci-fi films are highlighted with personal and professional analysis along with posters for some of the films. See which sci-fi greats AMZ brands as their "Top Picks of the Decade" for each section. The first article, Blast From the Past: Retro-Aliens - 1950's, explores the sci-fi film explosion as the post World War II movie audiences saw the emergence of the Atomic Age and it's influence in the film industry.
Have you Googled James Cameron's Avatar lately? Did you come up bone dry? We here at AMZ feel your pain. So allow us to provide a distraction while we wait these long months with some pretty cool sci-fi eye candy. AMZ's Cosmic Art Galleries is a macrocosm of artwork from known and unknown artists who have created visual wonders of our universe.
This AMZ feature will showcase a series of galleries including The Spacial and Alien Art Gallery, The Retro-Cosmic Art Gallery, Amazing Galactic Photography Gallery, and to kick off the series, The Alpha Artistic Gallery.
This AMZ feature highlights many 3D films from the past and present, some accompanied with images and descriptions. This is not a complete list of every single 3D film made, but most of the prominent films are included in this directory. From the world's first 3D feature film, The Power of Love to the recent box office success The Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, explore the historical steps 3D cinema has taken to the upcoming 3D digital trend on the horizon.
We sampled ten popular online top sci-fi film polls to determine AMZ's Top Ten Sci-Fi Films of All Time. Based on their average ranking per poll, each film was measured how well it fared in the lists provided. The 2000's are not included obviously since this decade is not quite complete and we certainly don't want to exclude Avatar.
