JAMES CAMERON - CAMERON CLOSES DOOR TO PRESS

CAMERON CLOSES DOOR TO PRESS

A conference of top producers held at the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, CA over the weekend produced little hard news -- except that a session in which director James Cameron ( Titanic ) had been expected to discuss the making of his upcoming Avatar had been closed to the press. The New York Times 's Michael Cieply said that he received a last-minute voice message from a Fox representative, who described Cameron's appearance as "a personal venture" and said that director did not wish to discuss his movie in front of the media at this point. Cieply described Avatar as a potential "game-changer" that may "change the way we think about movies." But, according to influential Internet blogger Nikki Finke, Cameron appeared to have little that was new to say about the movie. Finke had a "tech pal" give her notes about the Cameron's address, and it would appear that the director merely repeated what he has previously said -- that the film employs technology -- he apparently was not specific about the type -- that was not available to him after he wrote the Avatar script ten years ago. He also said that he expected that several thousand theaters will be capable of showing movies in 3D by the time Avatar is released on December 18.

08/06/2009