James Cameron joined the BBC Earth team to help the film “Walking With Dinosaurs 3D”. The cameras system Cameron-Pace Fusion 3D, which was patented and used for “Avatar” and “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”, but also to live 3D transmission of sporting events, will be used for a movie about dinosaurs produced by BBC Films Earth, Evergreen Films and Reliance Pictures.

“Our goal was to create a brand to be associated with quality 3D footage. To do this, we needed the best technology that we have inside and we can work in the field, but most important is that it took to link alliances and partnerships with people who also want to obtain high 3D quality. Evergreen and the BBC are perfect examples”, said director James Cameron for The Hollywood Reporter.

“Walking with Dinosaurs” is now in the stage production in Alaska, at the headquarters of Evergreen. The feature movie, which will have live-action and computer generated sequences, has a budget of 65 million dollars. Those from Animal Logic will work on the computer part, from Sydney, Australia, animation studio that made “Happy Feet”.

Find out more about “Walking with Dinosaurs 3D” from IMDB.

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

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.

James Cameron and Fox are in talks in order to re-released Avatar on 3D screens at the end of the summer or at the beginning of the autumn. The film will propose additional scenes which had been put aside during the original assembly in the eagerness to launch the feature film in time on December 18th.

Cameron could count over about 40 minutes of additional sequences. However, the maximum length to launch a film on screens IMAX is 170 minutes. It is thus more probable that Cameron adds 10 minutes to the 160 minutes of original film. The remainder could be presented within the framework of a special edition DVD.

The director had already mentioned that it had from 10 to 12 minutes of sequences which it had cut and which it could quickly position back in post-production. One of the additional scenes would put in scene the misadventure of Jake Sully whereas it tries to show its value with the Na’vi people. Another scene would be held at the time of a festival whereas the character of Tsu’tey is drunk.

In addition, Cameron indicated that he considered a 3D version of Titanic. The film could be released in spring 2012 to coincide with the 100th birthday of the shipwreck of the ship.