Lately we have been reviewing another kind of movies here and focused less on your typical box office stuff because… well every does that already and we like to be different. But everyone also seems to be in need of a credit loan in recent years. Unless your name is Quentin Tarantino of course but you would probably prefer to be Zemeckis, Cameron or Spielberg because these are the guys raking in the real money. And Jerry Bruckheimer.
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James Cameron Making ‘True Lies’ TV Show
James Cameron must’ve gotten tired of fans asking him if he’ll ever do a sequel to True Lies, his hit 1994 spy thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. (His standard answer for years has been that he didn’t think audiences had as much of a taste for stories featuring terrorism after 9/11. But plenty of stuff since then has proven him wrong, most notably 24.) Cameron has decided to develop True Lies as a television show, and he’s shopping it around the networks right now.
The show will be overseen and developed by writer Rene Echevarria, who worked with Cameron on his only other TV foray, Dark Angel. Echevarria currently works on Castle and MTV‘s upcoming Teen Wolf.
The film told the story of Harry Tasker, a spy for a super-secret government organization, who keeps his double identity a secret from his wife Helen. But hijinks (and high-octane action) ensue when Helen finally finds out the truth. I’m wondering if the True Lies TV show would focus on Harry and Helen in their post-movie days, when they’re working together as husband-and-wife spies. Or, might the show reboot the entire tale and play things out differently and more slowly. It might be fun to watch the story all over again, knowing that eventually Helen will find out Harry’s secret and join the team.
If it depicts events from after the movie, then it would follow a storyline that’s an awful lot like another husband-and-wife spies TV show that’s debuting next week: J.J. Abrams’ Undercovers. But with Cameron’s clout, it shouldn’t be hard to find a home for True Lies.
Avatar surpasses Titanic at the box office
There wasn’t even any doubt that it could.
James Cameron’s CGI movie Avatar has officially surpassed his own movie Titanic as the highest grossing movie of all time.
In the US domestic market Avatar reached a record $601,141,551 47 days after it was released in theaters. The take easily surpassed the $600,788,188 that Titanic earned for its whole run in the theaters.
The money shoveling also continued in the international market. Avatar has already surpassed Titanic’s worldwide take of $1,242,413,080. Avatar has earned an astonishing $1,446,989,293. It even achieved the record in far less time than Titanic, which, anyway you look at it, is just phenomenal. The total worldwide take Avatar is now pegged at $2,048,130,844, which leaves Titanic’s total take of $1,843,201,268 in the dust. Amazing, really.
I guess this means we’ll be treated to more of Cameron’s “I’m the king of the world!” arrogance this year.
Avatar continues to shatter box office records
If there’s one thing Hollywood movie junkies love as much as big-budget blockbusters it’s the numbers porn associated with these multi-million dollar earners.
And the numbers are finally out for the highly successful Avatar.
Avatar has continued its phenomenal performance and it’s now being proclaimed as the box-office superstar of the decade, much like how Titanic was in the previous decade. Avatar raked in $350 million in just 17 days and over one billion dollars worldwide. The James Cameron flick also set a New Year’s Day weekend box office records with $68.3 million, a drop of just 10 percent from the figures it posted during Christmas weekend. This makes Avatar the highest third weekend grossing movie ever, surpassing Spider-Man.
Expect next weekend to become another round of record setting as the movie hits the $400 million mark, which will push it past Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen as the highest grossing movie of 2009 and also making it part of the top ten highest grossing movies of all time.
What’s quite impressive about these figures is that Avatar is not even a sequel so there’s no prepackaged audience here. Secondly, most of the money is being made on 3D and IMAX screens, which could herald the start of a shift towards more “high tech” presentations for future Hollywood movies. Third, this is a movie that has been released in the holiday season, not in the summer where movies enjoy more audiences because people are on vacation. Avatar now has to contend with students returning to school and people going back to work after the holidays.
Whatever happens though, Avatar has made a mark financially. Artistically, the verdict’s still up.