“Avatar” star Sam Worthington has grabbed the lead in ‘The Fields’ – the debut film from director Michael Mann’s daughter Ami Canaan Mann.  The movie is about a pair of detectives investigating a string of murders in Texas.

‘Avatar’ has finally been knocked out of the top spot at the box office by the mushy girl’s movie ‘Dear John’.
Don’t feel too bad for ‘Avatar’, James Cameron’s 800 pound gorilla still made close to 25 million this weekend and has passed 2 billion at the worldwide box office to become the highest grossing movie [...]

Rupert Murdoch already has dollars dancing in his head over an ‘Avatar’ sequel.
Says Rupert:
“There have been very early talks about it with James Cameron and we’ll be pushing for one. Jim has ideas for one.”
What, no ‘we planned this as a trilogy all along’ gloating?

‘Avatar’ is going to easily win the weekend at the box-office in it’s 7th week of release.
Mel Gibson’s big comeback is, no surprise, flopping.

The Director’s Guild has spoken and they’ve picked Kathryn Bigelow as the best director of the year for her movie ‘The Hurt Locker’ – the first woman to win the award ever!
Her competition?  Her ex-husband James Cameron!
This puts Bigelow at the top of the list to pick up an Oscar for her work in March [...]

“Avatar” star Sam Worthington is going to star in “Dracula: Year Zero” for Universal.
The movie will be directed by Alex Proyas and will be out summer 2011.
”Avatar” paying off for every one!

‘Avatar’ is now officially the highest grossing film of all time worldwide with almost $1.9 billion in the bank — and it hasn’t stopped yet!
On Monday, James Cameron’s behemoth “Avatar” entered the record books, passing Cameron’s pervious movie, much loved ‘Titanic’, which made $1.842 billion back in 1998.
A lot of Hollywood insiders are begrudging Cameron [...]

BEST FILM

AVATAR – James Cameron, Jon Landau

AN EDUCATION – Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey

THE HURT LOCKER – Nominees TBC

PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness

UP IN THE AIR – Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki

‘Star wars’ creator George Lucas has unveiled plans to film new “Star Wars” movies in 3-D because he was so excited by what James Cameron did with ‘Avatar’.
For those of you who are excited by this prospect we have three words for you:  The Phantom Menace.

Are ‘Avatar’ — and James Cameron — headed to Oscar glory?  That’s the big question on Hollywood’s mind today after a massive win for the 3-D epic at last night’s Golden Globes.
Says a gossipbomb source:
“Cameron’s win as best director and ‘Avatar’ winning for best drama suddenly put the Oscar up for grabs.  Up until now [...]

According to Vatican newspapers and radio stations, the film “Avatar” promotes the worship of nature as a substitute for religion and the Pope is against it.
Leave to The Vatican to kill our buzz.

“Avatar’ continued it’s box-office assault and took in another $48.5 million at the box office raising it’s US total to a whopping $429,040,000.
Added to it’s worldwide receipts, this makes ‘Avatar’ the second highest grossing movie of all time, slightly under ‘Titanic’s billion dollars.
Analysts now expect ‘Avatar’ to overtake “Titanic’ as the highest grossing movie of [...]