Below you can watch a featurette for Titanic 3D, it’s been said that James Cameron put a lot of work into this project and didn’t want to just convert and hope of the best, he even polished up the 2D version for us.  It will be interesting to see how the final hour of the film plays out in 3D, it’s great cinema with or without the added dimension.

Hit the jump to watch the featurette, Titanic 3D opens April 6th, 2012.

I don’t think I need to go on about the plot here, but I will share a scary thought: Gwyneth Paltrow was up for the role of Rose and Matthew McConaughey for Jack.  Who else just shuddered?  The film is sure to hit Blu-ray around the same time, might be a good time to put away the double VHS you still have.

Watch the trailer below:

• Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis on the Set of The Expendables 2, awesome.   Schwarzenegger tweeted the image with the following message: Back in action for The Expendables 2! I’m having a fantastic time on set with Bruce and Sly in Bulgaria. [image]
• Jim Carrey to join Steve Carell in ‘Burt Wonderland’. [deadline]
• Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic picked up by HBO. [reuters]
• Sandra Bullock to Join Clint Eastwood in ‘Trouble with the Curve’. [twitch]
• James Cameron Talks about Bringing Back Sigourney Weaver in Avatar 2. [nymag]
• The Walking Dead Mad Magazine Cover. [image]

Here is a trailer for THE DIVIDE, a post-apocalyptic thriller with Michael Biehn, watch it below:

• So there’s a Zorro reboot happening, ok speak up, who asked for this? *crickets* [deadline]
• Robert Zemeckis developing “Period Ghostbusters” film called ‘Charles Fort’ [ComicBookMovie]
• Warner Bros. has released two new posters for the upcoming Clint Eastwood film ‘J. Edgar’, and Leonardo DiCaprio looks pissed. [here and here]
• Billy Ray Writing ‘The Thin Man’ for Johnny Depp and in more Depp news, he’s going to play Dr. Seuss [THR1, THR2]

James Cameron’s Movie Voice Cameos, watch below:

My personal philosophy is that post conversion should be used for one thing and one thing only – which is to take library titles that are favorites that are proven, and convert them into 3D – whether it’s Jaws or ET or Indiana Jones, Close Encounters… or Titanic. Unless you have a time machine to go back and shoot it in 3D, you have no other choice. The best alternative is if you want to release a movie in 3D – make it in 3D. - James Cameron [BBC]

Now with that out of the way, Titanic will be released April 6, 2012 in 3D.

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• Best Film Speeches and Monologues [Filmsite.org]
• Patrick Warburton (David Puddy, The Tick) Joins Seth MacFarlane’s Ted [Deadline]
• Kevin Smith’s Red State Has Already Paid for Itself [gigaom]
• Michael Bay, Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron & More Stand Up Against Premium VOD Plans [theplaylist]
• Steve Johnson Shares His I Am Legend Make-Up Tests, See what the ‘Zombies’ Could Have Looked Like [shocktillyoudrop]
• Interactive Fast Five Trailer [yahoo]

Second International X-Men: First Class Trailer:

“I am in the process of writing the next two Avatar films now. We are planning to shoot them together and post them together, and we will probably release them not quite back to back, but about a year apart. Christmas ’14 and ’15 is the current plan.”

James Cameron has officially committed himself to doing two more Avatar movies, presumably back to back.  Avatar 2 is being aimed for December 2014, while Avatar 3 will hit one year later in December 2015.

Cameron is expected to start writing the scripts early next year and had this to say about the announcement:

“It is a rare and remarkable opportunity when a filmmaker gets to build a fantasy world, and watch it grow, with the resources and partnership of a global media company. Avatar was conceived as an epic work of fantasy – a world that audiences could visit, across all media platforms, and this moment marks the launch of the next phase of that world. With two new films on the drawing boards, my company and I are embarking on an epic journey with our partners at Twentieth Century Fox. Our goal is to meet and exceed the global audience’s expectations for the richness of Avatar’s visual world and the power of the storytelling.  In the second and third films, which will be self contained stories that also fulfill a greater story arc, we will not back off the throttle of Avatar’s visual and emotional horsepower, and will continue to explore its themes and characters, which touched the hearts of audiences in all cultures around the world. I’m looking forward to returning to Pandora, a world where our imaginations can run wild.”

I enjoyed Avatar and look forward to seeing where Cameron takes us next in his fantasy world. It’s known that Cameron had to wait for technology to be invented so he could make his film, well the nerd is doing it again.
He’s working on two brand new technological advances. First, he wants to shoot and project Avatar 2 and 3 at a higher frame rate than 24 frames per second.  He also wants to close the gap to a point where he can shoot on his virtual camera with such quality that he doesn’t need visual effects to make the images photo real.  I’ll let him explain: