All four of these great videos come to you via TheYoungFolks.com and their YouTube channel. They were filmed at the Q&A session following the screening of ‘Man On A Ledge’ in Chicago on 18th January 2012.
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Drew McWeeny of HotFix.com interviews Sam about ‘The Debt’, going on to talk about the ‘Avatar’ sequels and ‘Wrath Of The Titans’:
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Hollywood.com have posted a great interview with Sam in which he talks about ‘The Debt’ and the much-anticipated ‘Avatar’ sequels:
ComingSoon.net have posted a couple of great interview segments from ‘The Debt’ press junket in LA, in which he talks about the upcoming Avatar sequels and Wrath Of The Titans
On the Avatar sequels:
“I know he’s nutting out like a bible at the moment,” Worthington said today, “[It’s] sort of like a precursor of Avatar 1, to just get himself back into the world and the mindset and the characters. Jim’s the person who will tell me when to show up,” he laughed. “I’ve talked to him, he’s told me what his plans for the story are, and it’s huge. It’s just monumental. But he’s not going to start until he raises the bar for himself, and he’s in no rush. That’s how he works – it’s very detailed and very weighty,” he observed. “But the story arc is huge; I needed a break halfway through because I was exhausted. It was insane, but it’s amazing. It’s going to be amazing.”
And on Wrath Of The Titans:
Q:How tough is it to balance smaller, independent films with blockbusters?
Sam Worthington: I think I’m pretty lucky to start with. If you get something like “Avatar”, it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors. But there was a thing my mate told me years ago, when I said, “Oh, there’s a great independent script and a great blockbuster script, and the independent thing will show me off more as a character.” He said, “But which movie would you go and see?” He said, “You go see blockbusters.” And that’s how I pick. I pick which movie by “would I want to go see something like ‘The Debt’?” Or, “Do I want to see something like ‘Terminator’?” And within that, you kind of by chance end up with a career that balances. You’re not just sitting there going, “I’m going to do one big one for them, and one small one for me.” That’s kind of the ideal, at leats that’s what people think. But when you talk with Christian Bale, he’s not thinking, “one for you, one for them”, he’s thinking “one for me – what story do I want to tell?” And whether it’s “Terminator” or “The Fighter”, that’s how he picks.
Q: After doing something like “Texas Killing Fields”, How difficult is it to go from material that is so weighty to something like “Clash of the Titans 2″?
Worthington: You make “Clash 2″ weighty. “Clash 1″ is a video game. You make “Clash 2″ weighty. You take everything you’ve learned, and go, I’m not doing this f–ing shit! I’m going to do a weighty script in a blockbuster. That’s the bigness of a blockbuster. They’re very hard because they’re done by such a machine, so you try to get that weight that an independent can allow you, that freedom that they have on an independent script, and then you try to fit it into a blockbuster where there’s a whole set of people who have a say. With something like “Clash 2″, that’s definitely what we’ve aimed for. And that’s all I really want to say on that.
The Los Angeles Times has just posted an article citing that Lightstorm Entertainment, the James Cameron/John Landau headed production company, are to move in to two buildings on the MBS Media Campus in LA in order to produce the two highly anticipated sequels to the 2009 movie ‘Avatar’.
The company has signed a five-year lease with the studio, which will give them 115,000 square feet of soundstage and office space, twice that they had to work with when filming ‘Avatar’. It will also mean that, unlike the first movie, which had various production teams based in different locations including Santa Monica, Malibu and Playa Vista, these two projects will have all relative departments located in one place, which makes a lot of sense logistically.
Whilst looking for the perfect place to set up camp, they had even considered building their own facility, but MBS offered them almost everything they required. Together with The Carlyle Group who own the studio, Lightstorm will invest in over five million dollar’s worth of improvements to the site, including two gyms (one for employees and another private one for James Cameron’s use), a commissary close to the sound stages, and a private screening room for Cameron.
Being an advocate for ‘environmentally friendly’ sources of energy, James Cameron is also to have solar panels installed at the facility in order to provide all the electricity required to produce the two movies.
Adding to all this the benefits of having a host of extremely useful equipment suppliers on-site, it is clear that MBS Media Campus is the ideal location for the production and as such, will be the focus for all-things Avatar for some time.
A number of sources are reporting today that James Cameron ‘fully intends’ to shoot Avatar 2 at double the usual film speed of most Hollywood movies.
Speaking at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, the ground-breaking director said that the new filming technique would greatly improve 3D movie images.
On planning to shoot the follow up to Avatar at 48 to 60 frames per second instead of the usual 24 to reduce a “strobing” effect that he said can blur moving film images, Mr Cameron said:
“I was stunned when I saw it, at how clear and crisp it was. If 3D is like looking at reality through a window, we’ve taken the glass out of the window.”
Cameron’s production partner Jon Landau reckons the higher frame rate will make “a big difference to the audience experience – not just for 3D movies, but for all movies”.
And Mr Landau said that as the shutter is “closed for less time”, the result will be a muchy brighter image. The Hollywood Reporter says this is “particularly noteworthy in 3D, as the glasses can reduce the amount of light that the viewer sees”.
Landau noted that the higher frame rates are already available in digital cameras, “but they always utilize it for slow motion”.
James Cameron also revealed that he is still working on the sequel’s script and that he would not begin actual filming on Avatar 2 for another 18 months.
“I’ve got a bit of time to get this sorted out,” he explained.
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EntertainmentWeekly.com have reported today that Avatar 2 has a tentative release date of Christmas 2014, with Avatar 3 following on for Christmas 2015 release.
James Cameron tells EW:
“I am in the process of writing the next two Avatar films now. We are planning to shoot them together and post them together, and we will probably release them not quite back to back, but about a year apart. Christmas ’14 and ’15 is the current plan.”
And as for who may be in the new movies, he says:
“Basically, if you survived the first film, you get to be in the second film, at least in some form,”
He also mentioned a very positive side note to the Avatar phenomenon:
“Fox has partnered with me to donate a chunk of the profits to environmental causes that are at the heart of the Avatar world,” says the director. “I didn’t want to make more Avatar movies without a grander plan in place.”
Looks like the underlying message of the movie has been embraced by the public and a great deal of good will come of people’s concerns for our own world’s well-being.
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