Avatar named the most pirated movie of all time

The 2009 Hollywood blockbuster ‘Avatar’ is reportedly the most illegally downloaded film of all time.

Website bosses at TorrentFreak.com, who have been investigating piracy in recent months, found that ‘Avatar’ was downloaded an estimated 21 million times.

James Cameron’s sci-fi film was followed by two other major worldwide blockbusters ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Transformers’ with about 19 million downloads each, Contactmusic reported.

Here are the Top 5 pirated movies:
1 ‘Avatar’ (2009) – 21 million 2 ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008) – 19 million
3 ‘Transformers’ (2007) – 19 million
4 ‘Inception’ (2010) – 18 million
‘The Hangover’ (2009) – 17 million

Disney, Cameron to create theme-park 'Avatar'

LOS ANGELES: Moviegoers pining for a return to the lush moon of Pandora in James Cameron's film "Avatar" will finally get their chance -- first-hand.

Walt Disney Co is teaming with the Oscar-winning director and News Corp unit Fox Filmed Entertainment, to mimic the thriving green landscape depicted in the highest-grossing movie of all time in a section of its Orlando, Florida, theme park.

Under their agreement, Disney won exclusive global theme park rights to the "Avatar" franchise. It will begin building from 2013 and will eventually take Avatar "lands" beyond Orlando's Disney World.

"Our goal is to go beyond current boundaries of technical innovation and experiential storytelling, and give park-goers the chance to see, hear and touch the world of 'Avatar' with an unprecedented sense of reality," Cameron said in a statement.

At a news conference, Cameron said that when he began talks with Disney designers, he "quickly realized their vision for this thing was far beyond what I imagined, and I've got a pretty good imagination."

The estimated cost for the Orlando project is about $400 million, a source familiar with the matter said. Construction should take about five years.

Planning is in the early stages, and executives gave few details on how Disney would recreate the fantasy world of "Avatar" and the creatures that inhabit it. The section will be located within Disney's Animal Kingdom park.

"Avatar," the 2009 film that chronicled the struggle of the alien Na'vi against marauding resource-ravenous humans, grossed almost $3 billion worldwide and triggered the current renaissance in 3D-film making. Cameron is planning sequels to the blockbuster hit, which surpassed his own "Titanic" as the highest-grossing movie in history.

The first of the "Avatar" sequels is set for release around Christmas 2014, Cameron said.

Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger said the company planned to bring "Avatar" to other locations beyond the Florida park. "We think we can clearly leverage the global interest in this property," Iger said.

The company is deep into several big theme park projects, including building a new park in Shanghai and adding a 12-acre section, set to open next year based on the animated "Cars" films, to its California resort.

Disney typically works with its own movies when developing themed sections and rides. It does have some attractions based on films from other studios, including the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" franchises. (Reuters)

James Cameron to work on BBC’s 3D film

ACADEMY Award-winning director James Cameron is to supply his 3D filmmaking expertise for the BBC’s forthcoming multi-million pound Walking with Dinosaurs film.

Cameron | Pace, the joint venture between Cameron and 3D technology expert Vince Pace, will provide its Fusion 3D technology to Walking with Dinosaurs 3D, produced jointly by BBC Earth, Evergreen Films and Reliance Big Entertainment. The part CGI, part live-action 3D drama will combine factual content with the story of a dinosaur family living 70 million years ago. Fox holds the distribution rights to Walking With Dinosaurs 3D, and expects to release the film in the US, UK, France, Australia, Japan and several other countries in 2013.

Cameron, who was named a National Geographic explorer-in-residence in June, said: “Walking With Dinosaurs 3D offers a fantastic opportunity to push our advances in 3D even further.

“We’re inspired by the creative ambition behind the film and the opportunity to work on a feature that aims to bring audiences a real, visceral experience.” At the IBC conference in Amsterdam, Cameron | Pace announced that Alaska-based Evergreen Films is the first studio to be “CPG Certified”, meaning it will rely exclusively on Cameron | Pace technology and expertise to produce 3D content. Source

James Cameron is done with Avatar

Filmmaker James Cameron has said that he will not revisit Avatar following the release of the definitive director's cut in November. Cameron is determined not to squeeze any more mileage out of Avatar and has promised to close the door on the fantasy film once his final version is out.

"No, I'm not going back to this. There's no re-visiting this downstream and I don't see it coming back into theatres at all unless 20 years from now they want to do something and I'm a doddering old guy who can't stop them," dailystar.co.uk quoted him as saying.

The moviemaker re-released his record-breaking 3D hit last month with an extra nine minutes of footage and plans to put out an ultimate director's cut on DVD in November, which will include further seven minutes footage.

However, the news does not spell the end of the Avatar franchise as Cameron is planning a sequel in 2014.