Avatar is an upcoming 3-D science fiction epic film directed by James Cameron, due to be released on December 18, 2009 by 20th Century Fox. This is Lightstorm Entertainment’s latest project.
The storys protagonist, Jake Sully, is a former Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake is selected to participate in the Avatar program, which will give him a healthy body. Jake travels to Pandora, a lush rainforest-covered extraterrestrial moon filled with incredible life forms some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also home to the Navi. They are a sentient humanoid race that humans consider primitive, but are actually more evolutionarily advanced than humans. Standing three meters tall, with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Navi live in harmony with their unspoiled world. As humans encroach deeper into Pandora’s forests in search of valuable minerals, the Navi unleash their formidable warrior abilities to defend their threatened existence.
Jake has unwittingly been recruited to become part of this encroachment. Since humans are unable to breathe the air on Pandora, they have created genetically-bred human-Navi hybrids known as Avatars. The Avatars are living, breathing bodies that are controlled by a human ‘driver’ through a technology that links the drivers mind to their Avatar body. On Pandora, through his Avatar body, Jake can be whole once again. Sent deep into Pandora’s jungles as a scout for the soldiers that will follow, Jake encounters many of Pandora’s beauties and dangers. There he meets a young Navi female, Neytiri, whose beauty is matched by her ferocity in battle.
Over time, Jake integrates himself into Neytiri’s clan, and begins to fall in love with her. As a result, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth, and the Navi forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.
Cast
Sam Worthington: Jake Sully
Zoë Saldaña: Neytiri
Sigourney Weaver: Dr. Grace Augustine
Michelle Rodriguez: Trudy Chacon
Stephen Lang: Col. Quaritch
Joel David Moore: Norm Spellman
Giovanni Ribisi: Selfridge
CCH Pounder: Moha
Dileep Rao: Dr. Max Patel
Matt Gerald: Lyle Wainfleet
Laz Alonso: Tsu’Tey
Peter Mensah: Akwey
Directed by James Cameron
Release date: December 18, 2009
Running time: More than 150 minutes estimated
Budget: US$237 million
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Avatar Movie – Oscar winning director James Cameron’s return to the big screen with “Avatar Movie,” was twelve years in the making. James Cameron, who was responsible for the biggest movie box office – and (almost) Oscar winning film in history, “Titanic,” is proud to present the 3D CG animated film “Avatar” as his follow up to “Titanic.”
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It looks as if there are several plot holes at this point because we can’t just spill our guts about the entire story. Don’t worry, we’re not one of those stupid writers who do absolutely no research or has the mental capacity of a thimble. We’ve read many horrible fan fics based on Avatar, and trust us, we know why people would worry…
So if you’re concerned out the story, know that we have logical reasoning, but we don’t want to explain it all know and spoil the show for you! So fear not… There’s method to the madness…
HEY!!!! Just so you guys know, Shen is NOT… I repeat… IS NOT, Aang’s reincarnation.
When parts of this test animation trailer were being made, I wasn’t sure what type of bender Shen should be, so the animator animated him bending one of each element. Shen is not 5 years old, he is an adult… Aang’s reincarnation is a 5 year old waterbending child who was born into a Water Tribe family somewhere in the world… Water Tribe people mostly live in the North and South Poles, but with the war over, some live in the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom. And there’s the waterbenders that live Foggy Swamp too… The new Avatar could have been born anywhere…
So NO, the new Gaang isn’t looking for the new Avatar; they wouldn’t be able to find them…
**ALSO NOTE** Every animation in this trailer is a first attempt… These are just practice animations… They aren’t clips from the show, and they were animated with a simple animation program. We know have Animator – the best animation program out there… So our animator will be able to do much more with her mad animating skills!
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AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. The film was first conceived by Cameron 14 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of actual production work, AVATAR delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film, disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver
All Copyrights to whoever owns them, fox, and other stuff, I DO NOT OWN THIS, This is owned by Fox and not me……lol
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Coca-Cola’s “Avatar” ad for Super Bowl XLIII (2009)
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AVATAR – Trailer | James Cameron 2009
Avatar è un film di fantascienza del 2009, scritto, diretto e prodotto da James Cameron e interpretato tra gli altri da Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver e Giovanni Ribisi.
È stato distribuito nei cinema di tutto il mondo tra il 16 e il 18 dicembre 2009. L’Italia e la Svizzera italiana, dove è uscito il 15 gennaio 2010, sono gli ultimi Paesi al mondo in cui è stato distribuito.[1] Tale ritardo è dipeso dalla volontà della 20th Century Fox, che distribuisce il film, di non mettere la pellicola in concorrenza con i cinepanettoni natalizi di De Sica e Pieraccioni,[2] preferendo puntare su Amelia.
Il film è stato pubblicato nel tradizionale formato 2D, ma ha visto anche un’ampia diffusione in 3D e in 3D IMAX. Lo stesso Cameron, che è un forte sostenitore del 3D come futuro del cinema, ha dichiarato che si avrebbe un’esperienza più completa guardando Avatar in tre dimensioni, poiché il film è stato da lui appositamente pensato per essere visto in quel modo.[3] Costato 237 milioni di dollari,[4] Avatar ne ha finora incassati oltre un miliardo e settecento milioni,[5][6] diventando il secondo film più redditizio della storia, secondo solo a Titanic dello stesso Cameron.
Avatar è inoltre il primo film ad utilizzare il nuovo logo della 20th Century Fox, animato da Blue Sky Studios, creatori de L’era glaciale.
Il film è ambientato nel 2154, sul satellite di un gigantesco pianeta gassoso, nel sistema stellare Alpha Centauri. Questo mondo è chiamato Pandora ed è molto simile alla Terra per dimensioni e forme di vita.
Una compagnia interplanetaria terrestre, la RDA, vuole conquistare questo pianeta per le sue ricchezze minerarie, soprattutto per un particolare minerale chiamato Unobtanium, superconduttore a temperatura ambiente, il cui valore di mercato è attorno ai 20 milioni della valuta corrente al chilo. Questo minerale potrebbe risolvere i gravissimi problemi energetici che ormai attanagliano la Terra da parecchi decenni.
Pandora è un mondo primordiale, ricoperto da foreste pluviali, con alberi alti fino a trecento metri e abitato da creature di tutti i tipi, tra cui degli umanoidi senzienti chiamati Navi, alti tre metri e ricoperti da una pelle blu striata come le tigri. L’aria su Pandora non è respirabile dagli umani (per esplorare liberamente il pianeta, i terrestri devono indossare delle speciali maschere filtranti), così gli scienziati della RDA hanno sviluppato geneticamente una sorta di ibrido tra umano e Navi, denominato “avatar”. In questo modo, un essere umano può controllare un avatar collegandosi con un’interfaccia mentale: l’individuo, dopo essersi collegato con i suoi sensi nervosi, entra in una speciale capsula e in seguito cade in una sorta di coma; attraverso questo sistema riesce a utilizzare e controllare l’avatar come se fosse il suo corpo, immedesimandosi completamente con esso, e ritornando nel suo vero corpo solo quando l’avatar si addormenta.
Jake Sully, ex marine divenuto invalido e fratello gemello di uno scienziato dell’RDA morto improvvisamente in una rapina, viene scelto al posto suo per una particolare missione: dato che la maggiore riserva di Unobtainium del pianeta si trova nel suolo su cui sorge il maggior insediamento dei Navi, Jake dovrà cercare di infiltrarsi tra loro usando l’avatar preparato con il codice genetico del gemello, apprenderne usi e costumi, e cercare una soluzione diplomatica per farli spostare da quel luogo, prima che gli uomini debbano ricorrere alle armi. Con il passare del tempo, però, Jake diverrà sempre più empatico verso le cause di questo popolo, fortemente legato a Pandora e amante della natura: alla fine si innamorerà di una ragazza Navi, Neytiri e sarà accolto dalla tribù come uno di loro. Jake comprende così che i Navi non hanno intenzione di abbandonare la propria terra. La RDA decide quindi di intervenire militarmente mandando contro il villaggio una flottiglia di elicotteri armati di missili.
Volendo salvare i Navi, Jake li avverte. Loro, capendo che li aveva traditi, gli dicono di andersene per sempre; Jake però non si arrende e decide di riconquistarsi la fiducia del popolo catturando l’uccello più forte di tutti i cieli. Una volta arrivato e rientrato nel popolo fa appello e raduna tutti i clan di umanoidi per combattere insieme il nemico. I na’vi subiscono molte vittime ma dopo una dura battaglia riescono a trionfare e a scacciare per sempre gli umani. Il film termina con il compleanno di Jake che si trasferisce per sempre nel corpo di un na’vi .
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The Making Of: Avatar
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Back in 1996, James Cameron announced that he would be creating a film called Avatar, a science-fiction epic that would feature photo-realistic, computer-generated characters.
He had a treatment for the film, which already defined many things, including the Na’vi a primitive alien race standing ten feet tall with shining blue skin, living in harmony with their jungle-covered planet Pandora.
Soon after, though, Avatar had to be shelved as the technology of the time could not satisfy the creative desires of the director.
Fast-forward to October 2009: Dan Lemmon, FX supervisor and Andy Jones, animation director at Weta Digital have about two weeks left of visual effects production for Avatar. The near-900 strong crew spanned across six locations are practically working around the clock to achieve what was deemed impossible a decade earlier.
Weta Digital, the New Zealand studio responsible for the groundbreaking visual effects in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, is taking VFX to a new level of creative and technological excellence.
For Avatar, the studio has created over 1,800 stereoscopic, photo-realistic visual effects shots, many of them of the Na’vi as ‘hero’ characters. In addition to digital characters and environments are the machines, vehicles, equipment and everything else that help blur the line between imagination and reality.
“We’re not just talking about the environment, but the creatures, the machines and the vehicles that people use to get around. The whole world is unique and because of the way James Cameron approaches things, everything seems functional and believable. Compared to other sci-fi fantasy genre films there’s a certain level of realism just in the design that makes it very believable,” says VFX supervisor Dan Lemmon.
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Now thing is probably most of you heard who James Cameron is, and you have PROBABLy seen at least one of his creations Titanic, Aliens, Terminator 2 etc. 
Now Mr.James Cameron is expected todrop another multi-million dollar project on our heads in Late 2009. Its called Avatar and is expected to bring sci-fi movies to the new level. The buzz surrounding this film is ALREADY big and growing. Whats fantastic about this one already is that specifically for this film, James Cameron and his crew had to develop new technologies, innovations in camera work and also a new CG development called “Image Metrics”.
Anyways hope you like it 
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The Set up: As taken from Wikipedia
Avatar is an upcoming 3-D science fiction film directed by James Cameron, due to be released on December 18, 2009.
In director James Cameron’s original script treatment of Avatar, a man tries to make his way as a miner by combining with an alien during an interplanetary war in which aliens can manifest themselves by possessing human bodies avatars.
When Avatar was titled “Project 880″, a casting call was put out in June 2006 with a plot description provided, saying, “In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.”
In December 2006, Cameron described Avatar as “a futuristic tale set on a planet 200 years hence [...] an old-fashioned jungle adventure with an environmental conscience [that] aspires to a mythic level of storytelling.”The January 2007 press release described the film: “Avatar is also an emotional journey of redemption and revolution. It 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,” and “We’re creating an entire world, a complete ecosystem of phantasmagorical plants and creatures, and a native people with a rich culture and language.”
The Cast: As taken from IMDB
Sigourney Weaver… Dr. Grace Augustine
Michelle Rodriguez… Trudy Chacon
Giovanni Ribisi… Selfridge
Zoe Saldana… Neytiri
Sam Worthington… Jake Sully
Laz Alonso… Tsu’Tey
Joel Moore… Norm Spellman (as Joel David Moore)
Peter Mensah… Akwey
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