3D PORN MOVIE MAY RECEIVE ADDITIONAL STEAMY SCENES

Appearing to borrow a page from the Justin Bieber playbook, the producer of the recently released 3D porn film that has become a hit in Taiwan and Hong Kong is planning to add 15 minutes of additional steamy scenes in hopes of generating repeat business. Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, quoted Stephen Shiu, the [...]

BERTOLUCCI RETURNING WITH 3D DRAMA

After an eight-year absence from filmmaking, legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor) is planning to return in the fall with a drama using 3D technology. In an interview with Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, on his 71st birthday Wednesday, Bertolucci said, “I want to use 3D in a [...]

WHAT DID 20TH EXECS REALLY THINK OF AVATAR?

It may have turned out to be 20th Century Fox’s most profitable film – what with gross revenue of $2.8 billion worldwide and counting — but studio executives were less than enthusiastic when they screened Avatar for the first time, according to director James Cameron. As reported by the London Independent, Cameron was asked about [...]

JANUARY BOX OFFICE: COLD AS THE WEATHER

Fewer tickets were sold at North American theaters in January than during any January since 1991, BoxOfficeMojo said on its website Tuesday. Just 94 million tickets were sold, the first time that ticket sales had fallen below 100 million since 1995, the website said. Thanks to 3D and IMAX surcharges, total revenue fell to only [...]

THE ROOMMATE WINS SUPER BOWL WEEKEND

Super Bowl weekend always throws the box office for a loss, but, if studio estimates hold, fewer tickets were sold this weekend than at any time since the comparable one in 1996, according to box-office trackers BoxOfficeMojo.com. Sony’sThe Roommate landed in first place — but with only about $15.6 million. That compares with the $30.5 [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: SANCTUM

Universal is clearly flinging out the James Cameron-produced Sanctum over Super Bowl weekend in the realization that it’s not likely to perform much better on a weekend when people actually go to the movies. The movie, filmed overseas (Australia) and underseas in 3D, is drowning in reproving reviews. “A documentary on the formation of stalagmites [...]

CAMERON SETS DATES FOR RELEASE OF AVATAR SEQUELS

James Cameron, who has previously disclosed that he is writing two sequels to his 2009 feature Avatar, plans to release them in 2014 and 2015, around the Christmas holiday season, he has told Entertainment Weekly. He further disclosed that both films will include characters who appeared in the first film. “Basically, if you survived the [...]

BOX OFFICE STUNG — EXCEPT FOR THE GREEN HORNET<

The No. 1 film at the box office may have seen a fair amount of green over the weekend, but the rest of the pack did not. Overall revenue was down nearly 28 percent from the comparable four-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday a year ago. Attendance was down 17 percent. Opening in first place [...]

CAMERON HEADING FOR DEEPEST SPOT ON EARTH

For his sequel to Avatar, James Cameron is building a submarine that will carry him and a crew to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 35,800 feet below the surface of the Pacific ocean, the deepest spot on earth, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported today (Tuesday). It said that the vessel is currently under construction in [...]

GREEN HORNET GREENER THAN EXPECTED

After a significant improvement in ticket sales on Saturday, Sony estimated that The Green Hornet would wind up with $34 million for the three-day weekend and $40.5 million for the four-day Martin Luther King holiday. On Saturday, the studio had estimated that Friday’s gross had totaled $11.2 million, at the low end of analysts’ estimates. [...]

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