Zoe Saldana (33 years), star of movies “The Losers”, “Star Trek”, “Burning Palms” and “Death at a Funeral”, told the editor of Latina that was so exhausted and overwhelmed from a emotionally after she finished filming in the SF “Avatar” that was about to suffer a nervous breakdown, spending a month in bed, sleeping, crying and struggling to adapt to the extraordinary success of the audience enjoyed the film of the director James Cameron, in which she played the blue alien Neytiri “next year launch of Avatar was emotionally overwhelming. I traveled all over the world and I woke up in countries with different time zones. My body was exhausted, and until the end, I snapped. I was in my hotel room and I could not control my tears. I could not keep my eyes open. I think I slept a whole month”.

The beautiful actress said that she needed a lot of time to restore the legs, but managed to recover thanks to the moral support that the family gave her, adding that currently prefers a quiet life and balanced with her fiancé Keith Britton.

Zoe Saldana has just finished filming the thriller “The Words” by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, which will be launched in 2012 and its distribution that also includes Dennis Quaid, Bradley Cooper, Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons, Ben Barnes John Hannah or JK Simmons, giving her agreement to play in the SF action “Moon” of the director Doug Liman and the sequel “Star Trek” by the director JJ Abrams.

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James Cameron’s epic motion picture Avatar reached another record by selling 6.7 million copies in DVD and Blu-ray in the United States and Canada, announced Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

It is a all times record for as many sales of the Blu-ray format in that little time.

The DVD version was sold to 4 million specimens while the Blu-ray version took taking 2.7 million times. The combined sales of these two formats reached 130 M$ only from its exit in store last Thursday.

The old record of the sales was held by the film The Dark Knight released in 2008. The film by Christopher Nolan had been sold to 2.5 million Blu-ray copies over an eighteen months period.

Only at its first day on the shelves of the stores, the Avatar film succeeded in selling for 3,2 million DVD and Blu-ray, compared to 2,7 million up to now for the two versions of film of Batman.

Let’s recall that Avatar will be released again on the screens next August, in a somewhat lengthened version. Of course, a 4 discs lengthened version will be released in store a little later. While waiting, the records do not cease accumulating

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment affirms to have sold 1.5 million Blu-ray copies of the epic science fiction  film Avatar at the time of its first day in the stores Thursday. It is a new record for this format beating that of the 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight which had sold 600 000 copies in Blu-Ray at the time of its first day after the release.

The combined sales of the Blu-ray and DVD formats would have exceeded the four million copies according to the studio.

Note that the release was not on Tuesday as usual, but on Thursday to match with Earth Day. The movie is to be released in the United Kingdom on April 26th

The retailers would have sold 60% of their inventory in Blu-ray and approximately 50% of the one in DVD.

Let us recall that the film collected receipts of 2,7 billion $US to the world box office from its release last December. It is a historical record without precedent.

James Camron, the director for the motion picture, announced that the movie will be released a second time on the screens in August with six minutes of additional sequences. Moreover four discs, version in DVD and Blu-Ray is waited next November. So, we will not forget this movie in 2010.

The director James Cameron was questioned by the Los Angeles Times the day before the release in DVD and Blu-Ray of the big motion picture Avatar. Cameron revealed some aspects which he intends to explore in the continuation of the feature film and in a possible third shutter.

They created a broad groundwork for the environment of the film. Not just for Pandora but for all the Alpha Centauri AB system. They will extend through this system while incorporating more in the history – not necessarily in second film but more for third film. Cameron already announced that then he would as well explain it: part of his focus in the second film will be to create a different environment – a new decoration inside Pandora. And he will concentrate on the ocean of Pandora which is quite as rich, will be diversified, nutcase and imaginative but that will not be the tropical forest. Cameron did not say that we will not see what we already saw. We will also see more than that. This what the director affirmed.

In the version released in DVD and Blu-Ray today (April 22nd), the film do not offer any supplement. Avatar will be released again on the screens in August with six minutes of additional sequences. It is after this new passage to the big screen that a more supplemented edition will be awaited in DVD and Blu-Ray. This four discs edition should be launched next November.

They work to finish these six additional minutes – which includes much work on behalf of WETA (the company in charge of the special effects) – for a new release in August. They had projections with closed counters in IMAX when they were obliged by contract to leave the place to Alice in Wonderland. So, they know that they left money on the table. The 3D really helped Avatar until the moment it was hurt by the last Tim Burton‘s production. And that hurt it at the moment when Alice then How to Train Your Dragon and Clash of the Titans arrived and that they occupied all the 3D screens. Avatar declined from 8% to 50% in one week. Clearly, it was not the fault of the forces of the market directly. It was rather the availability of the screens. Then they will wait until it is time to return while adding new sequences in the batch and they will see whether they can interest people again with the Avatar experiment in the cinema rooms.

Avatar collected receipts of 2,7 billion $US to the world box office from its release last December, historical records without precedent. The film is available in DVD and Blu-Ray today (April 22nd) in order to coincide with the Earth Day.

The Hurt Locker, which dominated the settings in nomination with nine quotations, tied for last place with Avatar, collected six Oscars of which that of Best Motion Picture of the Year of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards which took place Sunday evening, in the Kodak Theater, Los Angeles.

In addition to the Oscar of Best Motion Picture, The Hurt Locker was also rewarded in the categories, Best Achievement in Editing, Best Achievement in Sound, Best Achievement in Sound Editing, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and Best Achievement in Directing (Kathryn Bigelow), a first in the history of Academy Awards since never a woman did not set out again with the statuette in this last category.

Avatar collected three prices in the categories Best Achievement in Art Direction, Best Achievement in Cinematography and Best Achievement in Visual Effects.

Jeff Bridges was crowned Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in the film Crazy Heart. It is a first Oscar for this senior actor who was already nominated with four other times during his career.

As regards actress, Sandra Bullock also received her first Oscar in career for her role in The Blind Side.

Christoph Waltz was rewarded in the category Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in the film Inglourious Basterds.

In the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role category, it is Mo’ Screws which set out again with the statuette coveted for its performance in Sapphire’s Precious: Based on the Novel Push.

Finally, Up, a production by Pixar studios, was crowned the Best Animated Feature Film of the Year.

More than one decade after the triumph of Titanic, James Cameron turns over to the feature-length film of fiction with Avatar, a spectacular production of 300 million dollars where it to seek to create a new mythology thanks to fabulous special effects. Such an amount of money spent for finally almost nothing.

In 2154, the human ones try to control the Pandora planet which is populated by Na’vi which seeks to respect the balance of nature. Thanks to a leading-edge technology, a paraplegic navy American (Sam Worthington) can take the form of one of these inhabitants thanks to his misadventure in order to infiltrate them and to study them. During its mission, it is made involve by one of its valiant residents (Zoe Saldana) who makes him discover this place with the rich person possibilities. When the young man discovers that its superiors want to destroy the ecosystem and the elements in place, it will have to make a choice between respecting its allegiance with its race or helping its new family.

The cinema of James Cameron evolves/moves with his time. The threat is not external any more (terrorists of True Lies, icebergs of Titanic), but it is born at the human being where the warriors always do not listen to the scientists by wanting all to control and conquer. The foreigner is not drunk for any more of blood as in Aliens, it is blue and generally peaceful, in as much as it can live in peace, at the same time pointing out the Amerindians of Dances with Wolves who are helped by the good white man.

Times change and the cinema too. And not necessarily for best. The rumor emanates that there will be before and after Avatar. That would not even be surprising. In front of this monstrous entity, it is not even any more question of cinema, but well of video games. The forgery forever as much dominated truth in these roleplays inflated for the big screens which, ironically, comprise a scenario even meaner and rachitic that first “Final Fantasy” on the old Nintendo console, a series worship which is done largely copied with these flying vessels and these phantasmagoric animals.

It is not only. Behind almost each plan and each idea a loan, subtle is or not. A box (or a film as in The Matrix) has to only be disconnected to return on the dry land, there are large robots which point out those of the Transformers and the environmental load on the side of traditional of Miyazaki. However, in front of this speech to leave a moral is held of right-hand side. It does not matter the actions and the human consequences, nature will have the top. What good is it to seek to reduce pollution and to stop the war if the apocalypse – 2012 way but in less ridiculous and poor – has the last word?

The object however was designed to divert and on this side, he discharges his task suitably. The Pandora planet makes dream, the orchestral music of James Horner loosens well the various moments of bravery, the special effects are spectacular and the use of a technology in three dimensions does not encroach too much on the account. Though after 150 minutes of drives and redundant combat, it is easy to take down. Especially that contrary to preceding works of Cameron, humor completely was almost rejected, which is always damage for a work which is often with a finger to collapse in the B series.

The cinema is still affected by the first blockbusters of Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Raiders off the Lost Ark) and original trilogy of George Lucas celebrates it, constantly seeking to apply a receipt to crash to pieces the box office. In spite of its single universe and its many special effects, Star Wars remained terribly human, with its charismatic characters, its moral stakes and its intergalactic humor. On the contrary, Avatar sacrifices its history, psychology of its hero and charm to lose in dream to privilege action and visual masturbation, feelings strong and bombastic dialogs, which can only lead to too full with entertainment which finishes by become the same, especially that several continuations would be already in preparation. The feature-length film will be certainly a great success with the counter (as well better, it is more convincing all the same as 2012 or the last Twilight), except that it is far from having the ardor of a District 9 or all the other movies by James Cameron.