Six New Avatar TV Spots

Six new television spots for James Cameron's Avatar is making the rounds, included an extended one and a half minute spot (which is long enough to be called a trailer).  A bunch of new footage is spread throughout. But for me it's really interesting to see how Fox is marketing the film, and trying to appeal to different demographics. For instance, one trailer is extremely family friendly, in an effort to appeal to the Nickelodeon crowd. Another trailer focuses on selling the film baseed on James Cameron. Watch all six spots after the jump.

Beyond Imagination 1.5 minute (family friendly) spot:

Greatest Adventure:

Greatest Adventure 2:

Survival:

New Life:

From James Cameron:

• Avatar Roundup: Sam Worthington Signed For Three; Production Designer Interview; an Early 'Review'
• Making a Scene: Avatar - Flying With Banshees
• Movie Posters: The Wolfman, The Book of Eli, Greenberg, Avatar
• Avatar Coverage Saturates the Web; Here's a Recent Roundup
• James Cameron's Avatar: Ten New Featurettes Revealed in "Interactive Trailer"
• Watch 2.5 Minutes of Avatar: The Thanador Chase

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Fans Can 'Experience' The 'Bad Girls Club' Season Four Premiere, Dec 1

Leveraging the power of social and interactive media, Oxygen is launching a groundbreaking real time destination, www.OxygenLive.com, as a companion to every one of its

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JCVD Director Adapts Graphic Novel The Insiders; Jessica Alba Still Attached

Back in June, we told you that Robert Rodriguez and Jessica Alba had optioned The Insiders, a French spy thriller comic book series featuring a female lead character that definitely harkens back to Alba's career-originating turn on the series Dark Angel. At that point the whole thing was just a rights option with Rodriguez set to produce. Now there's a director, and one that makes the whole package a little more intriguing: JCVD helmer Mabrouk el Mechri.

Pajiba reports that el Mechri is on board — what, you thought there was ever a chance that Rodriguez would direct this one? Expect to see a lot more of this sort of producer action from the guy, especially if Predators does well. He's very much in a position to transition into the sort of producer that can enable less-established directors who do interesting or fan-pleasing work. JCVD was most definitely fan-pleasing.

I haven't seen any of el Mechri's previous French work, so I can't say if JCVD was a fluke, or proof that he's really got the goods. The Insiders could be a good thing for him, especially if he makes Alba look like she can act.

Here's a rundown of Jean-Claude Bartoll's comic book from ICV2, the site that broke the option story this summer:

Najah Cruz, a Colombian who is as deadly as she is beautiful. She has the weapons expertise and combat skills of a James Bond [sic]. At the secret request of the White House (CIA) she infiltrates a worldwide mafia-like organization composed of businessmen and politicians and becomes the bodyguard of the organization's leader.

Meanwhile, Alba may prove her chops in The Killer Inside Me, where she plays a prostitute that gets knocked around, while Rodriguez is finishing up Machete (with Alba guest starring) and overseeing Nimrod Antal on Predators.

• Machete's Crazy Cast Confirmed: De Niro, Lohan, Seagal and More
• Robert Rodriguez and Jessica Alba Teaming Up For French Comic Book Adaptation Insiders?
• The Killer Inside Me Sales Trailer: Michael Winterbottom Does Sex and Violence and Desperation
• Sin City 2 Actually Moving Forward, May Be Followed By Hard Boiled
• Casting Notes: New Comedy Projects For Jessica Alba, Uma Thurman and John C. Reilly
• Details Leak from Script to Robert Rodriguez's Predators. Film to Feature Predator Dogs and Birds?

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Tom Petty: 'My Dad Thought I Was Gay'

Tom Petty still has nightmares about his violent upbringing and thinks his father thought the rocker was gay.

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Susan Boyle Tops U.K. Albums Chart, May Beat Eminem's Best Selling Record

Coming out as this week's champ on U.K. Albums chart, Susan Boyle's 'I Dreamed a Dream' is predicted to break Eminem's 'Relapse' best-selling record.

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Derek Jeter Builds Colossal Mansion to Share With Girlfriend Minka Kelly

The mansion reportedly is 30,000 sq. ft. and has seven bedrooms, a room just to hold his baseball memorabilia, and a garage enough to park six cars.

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John Hillcoat's Next Courting Amy Adams for Female Lead, Retitled The Promised Land?

I've been keenly eyeing news on John Hillcoat's potential adaptation of The Wettest County in the World, scripted by Nick Cave based on the novel by Matt Bondurant. There's been significant maybe/hopefully casting news for the film so far, but not much more. Hillcoat seems to have Shia LaBeouf and Ryan Gosling interested and/or attached, and there was word that other actors, like Scarlett Johansson and Michael Shannon, were interested. Now, based on some art from the American Film Market, it appears that the leading female role will go, in an ideal world, to Amy Adams. And the film may just have a slightly shorter and more generic title: The Promised Land.

Collider just ran their final collection of sales art and info from AFM, and way at the bottom of a long post is a rather plain sales sheet for The Promised Land. Unless Hillcoat has come up with another next project for Cave, LaBeouf and Gosling, that's the retitled Wettest County. I got quite excited that some of these deals were locked in until I read the fine print: "credits not contractual". So it's still in the fundraising process and this cast may not come together, though Hillcoat has optimistically talked about shooting this tale of "West Virginia, moonshine, backwoods, and Prohibition" in February 2010. The (sorta) good news: Millennium / Nu Image credits are also on the poster, so there's some real money going into the film.

Here I am, all up on Hillcoat's jock, and I haven't even seen The Road yet. (Missed my screening, catching it tomorrow afternoon.) But I love the guy because he's making interesting, intense movies for adults. For me, Hillcoat's films are among those I look forward to every few years, while the obvious tentpoles fill in the gaps and mark the time between. He's got that long-standing working relationship with Nick Cave, whose work I love, and hires really good actors for meaty, big parts. This looks to be no different, and I'm excited by the idea of Gosling and Adams in this one together. (I haven't seen The Slaughter Rule, the 2002 film in which they appeared together.

• LaBeouf and Gosling Join John Hillcoat's Next, The Wettest County in the World…Maybe
• John Hillcoat's The Wettest Country in the World Interests Johansson, Dano, Gosling and More
• The Road Director John Hillcoat Eyes Daniel Craig, Nick Cave for Future Projects
• Leap Year Movie Trailer
• The Road Trailer #2
• Zach Galifianakis and Amy Adams to Shack Up in Once Director's Town House?

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Jason Reitman Talks Up in the Air and the Film's Ending

Paramount Pictures has released a new featurette for Jason Reitman's Up in the Air focusing on the filmmaker's vision. In the video, Jason explains that he aims for authenticity, not comedy, in the performances and stories of his films… and if he achieves that, the comedy will follow:

"Everywhere I look, I see comedy… often where it is inappropriate. For me that's the best way to talk about things. If we can open up and laugh about things, then we can have a honest conversation."

You can watch the video now on Apple.com. Also, Anne Thompson has a wonderful 20 question interview with Reitman on indiewire. I've excerpted one of the answers after the jump, because it is the only time I've ever seen Jason talk in detail about the ending of the film, and what his intentions were. If you haven't seen the movie, do not read that question and answer below. Again, don't — experience it first, check back later. But if you have seen the movie, I recommend you hit after the jump.

SPOILER WARNING!!!!!

Question: The ending of the movie has produced some debate. Why did you not give everybody a happy, romantic ending?

Jason Reitman: There are millions available on DVD if you want to feel good. No, honestly, look; there are plenty of movies that inspire companionship through romance on screen. You see two people in love and you go, you know what, I want that too. I did not want to make that movie. I wanted a film that inspired companionship through loss. It's not when George and Vera are dancing at the wedding that you go 'oh, this man is truly in need of somebody in his life,' it's right after he shows up at her door in Chicago and realizes that she's unavailable, that's the moment you go: 'Oh, this man actually wants something else.' And hopefully it's the moment that the audience feels it so hard, you get hit so hard in the gut that you want it yourself as well. So I thought somehow that would actually be more impactful than simply watching two people in love. Then the ending of the movie, it's a movie about an epiphany rather than a decision. We get to the end of the movie, we know that he's come to some sort of realization, and from there he can do anything. He can get on a plane and live the same way for the rest of his life, he can get a plane and settle down somewhere and meet someone and share his life with somebody. That actually doesn't matter. I'll tell you why; he's a fictitious character. He doesn't exist. However, the movie doesn't end there, and then just cut to clouds and sit on clouds for a few seconds. And I don't mean to be pretentious, but I hope that moment is a moment of silence for the audience to think about what they want in their life, because in reality that's much more important than whatever Ryan Bingham decides to do.

• New Up in the Air Clip: "We Don't Really Have That Kind of Relationship"
• Up in The Air's Mad Men TV Trailer
• Movie Music Update: Up in The Air Song Might Not Qualify For Oscar, Smith Wants Beverly Hills Cop Composer for Couple of Dicks, and James Horner's Avatar Score Is EPIC
• Up in the Air Full Theatrical Trailer
• Must Watch Interview: Up in the Air's Jason Reitman on the Telluride Gondola
• Up in The Air Gets Early Release

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Voluptuary Stuck in a Box

The director James Whale transcended weak scripts, bad casts and genre assignments with his fluid camera and artful sensibility.

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DVDs: Nutty Professor in Prime Time

"The 'Jerry Lewis Show' Collection" offers more than five hours of excerpts from the variety show that Mr. Lewis starred in and co-produced for NBC.

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Lady Gaga Web

Check out ladygagaweb.com, your newest 24/ source for Lady Gaga. It's run by Michal (original owner of m-cyrus.org) and it's an amazing site, go check it out! For all the latest pics, news and multimedia on Lady Gaga click the picture below to proceed the LadyGagaweb.com

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Geek Deal: Black Friday Leftovers

Black Friday has come and gone, but here is a list of all the deals which are still good on Amazon. You know how after Thanksgiving you have a bunch of leftovers in the fridge which last for the following week? Well think of it like that, but with blu-rays and dvd deals. Some prices have gone up, some have even be marked down even more.

LG BD270 Blu-ray Disc Player for $103.98

Good All Day:

The Wire: The Complete Series for 50% off

Blu-Rays Under $11:

• Independence Day [blu-ray] $9.49
• I Am Legend [blu] $7.99
• Star Trek: Wrath of Khan [blu] $7.99
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home [blu] $7.99
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno Blu-ray $10.49
• Friday Night Lights [Blu-ray] $9.49
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona [Blu-ray] $10.49
• The Reader [Blu-ray] $10.49
• U-571 [Blu-Ray] $8.99
• End of Days [Blu-ray] $9.99
• Leatherheads [Blu-ray] $10.99
• Short Circuit [Blu-ray] $8.99
• Die Another Day [Blu-ray] $8.99
• The Departed [Blu-ray] $7.99
• Full Metal Jacket [Blu-ray] $7.99
• Training Day [Blu-ray] $10.99
• Speed [blu-ray] $8.99
• Spaceballs [Blu-ray] $7.99
• Silence of the Lambs [Blu-ray] $7.99
• Goodfellas [Blu-ray] $7.99
• V For Vendetta [Blu-ray] $7.99
• Corpse Bride [Blu-ray] $7.99
• Dark City Director's Cut [Blu-ray] $9.99
• Robocop [Blu-ray] $7.99
• The Fountain [Blu-ray] $7.99
• Bullitt [Blu-ray] $8.49
• The Passion of the Christ (Definitive Edition) [Blu-ray] $8.99
• The Terminator [Blu-ray] $7.99

Other Deals:

• Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seasons 1-6, on sale for only $79.99 with free shipping included.
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Copy Combo $15.99
• Harry Potter Years 1-5 Box Set [Blu-ray] $54.99
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [Blu-ray] $12.99
• Slumdog Millionaire $7.99
• 24: Season 7 $19.99
• The Simpsons: Season 1, 3-10 $10.99 each
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game Slimer Edition $27.99 PS3 Xbox360 Wii

Each of the listed 3-movie Blu-ray packs below is only $21.99 each. That's basically $7.33 for each Blu-ray disc.

• Action Collection: Jumper, Transporter, Transports 2
• Action Hero Collection: The Day After Tomorrow, I, Robot, The Terminator
• Hard Action Collection: Hitman, Street Kings, Man on Fire
• War Hero Collection: Behind Enemy Lines, Patton, Rescue Dawn
• Funny Guy Collection: Napoleon Dynamite, Office Space, Young Frankenstein
• Jock Collection: Dodgeball, Hoosiers, Rocky

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Sophia Bush Tells All About Beauty and Fashion Choice

The Brooke Davis of TV series "One Tree Hill" says she looks up to the likes of Penelope Cruz, Cate Blanchett, and Zooey Deschanel when it comes to standing out.

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Beware Movie Theater Foods...

The Center for Science for Public Interest isn't surprising anyone with a new study that finds -- shocker! -- movie theater foods are bad for you.

Let's all go to the lobby! Let's all go to the lobby! Let's all go to the lobby ... to have ourselves a heart attack.

Anyone with a little common sense knows that gigantic tubs of greasy buttered popcorn, large sodas, and candy bars turned into boxes is more treats than eats. But just how bad is it?

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Orange/Blue Contrast in Movie Posters

I'm sure you're aware of Hollywood's overuse of floating head on movie posters, but have you noticed the recent explosion of orange/blue contrast on theatrical one-sheets? David Chen happened to come across this comic illustrating the Blue/orange contrast, although I'm not sure where it originated or who created it. After the jump you will see a ton of examples of orange/blue contrast, however I must warn you — as the comic says, once you see it, you'll notice it everywhere.

Of course, as Gravity13 points out, orange/blue just so happens to be the most common set of complementary colors because blue is "cool" and orange is "enthusiastic" and "energetic."

via: reddit

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