James Cameron

From Opera to the Terminator: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, Feb. 22 USC will be showing a free advance screening of Phantom, starring Ed Harris as the captain of a Cold War Soviet submarine who faces off against a rogue KGB agent (David Duchovny) trying to seize control of a nuclear missile. The film start ... More >>

James Cameron Must Turn Over to Eric Ryder his Script for Avatar in Battle Over Who Created the Sci-Fi World

James Cameron must turn over to his former employee Eric Ryder the drafts of Cameron's screenplay for the blockbuster Avatar, in a partial victory for the unknown author handed down today by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alan Rosenfield. Rosenfield, (a rare local who admits he didn't see Avatar ... More >>

Sunday Night Movie Tweet-Along: How a Hashtag (#SMTA) Is Helping Several Thousand People Watch a Film at the Same Time

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. On December 5 of last year, a few self-described movie geeks put a simple idea into practice: they all watched a movie at the same time and tweeted along to it. Called the Sunday Night Movie Twe ... More >>

From Abe to Aliens: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

This week's list of special event movies ranges from a James Cameron classic to Henry Fonda's take on the 16th president.

3D Film Festival Seeks to Answer: Is 3D a Fad or the Future?

While you were clicking hours away on your View-Master as a child, Christopher Crescitelli was heralding the future. "I was one of those weird kids, who, in the fifth grade, started making 3D imagery with my crayons and colored markers," he says. "People nicknamed me the 3D kid." Unfortunately, ... More >>

Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling

Cafe Jack, Koreatown's Titanic-Themed Restaurant, Explained

The restaurant looks like an ocean liner that's run aground in the middle of Koreatown, with the survivors building ramshackle additions and living out their lives right where they landed. But the clue is in the name emblazoned on the ship's bow -- Café Jack. As in Jack Dawson, the young artist pla ... More >>

James Cameron's Dive Down Mariana Trench Is an 'Ego-Driven Publicity Stunt,' Says Submarine Company

In the great race between director James Cameron and British billionaire Richard Branson to the deepest point on the ocean floor, Cameron will get there first. This, according to Bruce Jones, CEO of Triton Submarines (and subject of this excellent Broward-Palm Beach New Times cover story). Jones' F ... More >>

James Cameron Is Racing a British Billionaire to the Deepest Point on the Ocean Floor

A race to the heart of the underworld is revving between Hollywood darling James Cameron and Virgin mogul Sir Richard Branson. The stakes are high. Only one submersible has ever touched the deepest point on the ocean floor, dramatically labeled the "Challenger Deep". That vessel was named Trieste, ... More >>

James Cameron's Titanic 3D: At a Sneak Preview of the Spiffed-Up Version, Even the Sappy Scenes Look Better

​It is when watching the movie Titanic in 3D that one appreciates anew the obsessive dedication to visual splendor, period detail and overall cinematic majesty that drives James Cameron to be the maker of not merely movies, but giant epics for the ages. A special screening was held recently ... More >>

Five Things That Could Go Wrong at Disney's Newly-Planned Avatar Land

​ Of all that is in the name of being over-commercialized and tacky, Disney is prepping to open one of several Avatar lands at its Walt Disney World theme park in Florida. The first is expected to break ground in 2013 at its Animal Kingdom portion. Here are five things that are bound to go w ... More >>

Sanctum

Hollywood's Soft Psychedelic Underbelly

Filmforum's "Alternative Projections" symposium draws a line from avant-garde to Avatar

Market Report: November in Santa Monica Finger Limes

A. Scattergoodcrabapples at Pudwill Farms​ November at Los Angeles farmers markets is shot with color: it's like our version of the gorgeous descending trees in other parts of the country. A stroll through today's Santa Monica market yielded Kabocha squash, baby pumpkins, crabapples, stinging ... More >>

Proposition 23: Green Money Pounds Big Oil Money In Blue California

By Hillel Aron Patrick Range McDonaldFuture green baron protests Prop. 23​Is the green energy lobby California's up-and-coming special interest group? Proposition 23 would kill Assembly Bill 32, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's climate-change bill that set strict standards for greenhouse gas ... More >>

Proposition 23 Will Have To Get Past Hollywood 'No' Warriors James Cameron And David Arquette Before Suspending Clean-Air Legislation Passed In 2006

Lightstorm EntertainmentBe calm, Jake: Big oil has no chance against our gentle Creator​As if "Avatar" didn't hit us over the head hard enough, director James Cameron is taking his devotion to Mother Nature a step further by pumping $1 million into the campaign against California's Proposition ... More >>

Top Ten Bizarre Facts About Ace of Base (They're Baaaaack!)

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the reggae-pop​True story: here at the West Coast Sound Headquarters we have a whiteboard where we write down story ideas and one of the items for a while has been "Sweden: WHY?" We're truly puzzled about all these Scandinavian acts that sing in ... More >>

Queen Guitarist and Astrophysicist Brian May to Present 19th Century Stereoscopic Imagery

Queen Guitarist and Astrophysicist Brian May to Present 19th Century Stereoscopic Imagery

James Cameron to Plug Oil Spill By Losing His Temper At a Production Assistant

​Federal officials met today with filmmaker James Cameron as they look for ideas on how to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.No really. That happened.Cameron was among a group of experts on deepwater operations and drilling who sat down with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency. No w ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE MP3: "Mike's Song" from the Phish 3-D Movie Soundtrack

[Ed.'s note: Attention Phish-Heads! Your idols have made a 3-D movie to blow your minds in yet another dimension and it opens today. They're also kind, giving folks, so they have offered you an EXCLUSIVE version of "Mike's Song" from the soundtrack via West Coast Sound. Right-click here for the dow ... More >>

Where's Antonio? Chatting with Obama, Hanging with James Cameron

It was a big week for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who gave his annual "state of the city" speech on Tuesday, even though he said it wouldn't be that kind of speech. Instead, the mayor largely talked about his proposed budget and the Los Angeles of his youth.Office of the Mayor of L.A.LAP ... More >>

Representing Mother******s

Keeping it realist at the old boys club

Na'vi Nerds: Meet the man who created the language

​ Attention, super-avid Avatar fans who are also into linguistics: Paul Frommer, the USC professor who created the Na'vi language used in James Cameron's film, will be lecturing and signing DVDs at Laser Blazer on Pico tomorrow night. You have to buy the film at Laser Blazer in order to get F ... More >>

James Cameron vs. Glenn Beck: Fight Between World's Two Most Annoying Men

Today in Inane Squabbles Between Successful Assholes: James Cameron (ex-husband of Kathryn Bigelow and director of Avatar), and Glenn Beck, Fox News personality and mastermind behind the book and one-man-show The Christmas Sweater--yes, that really exists) are having a media feud! It started at ... More >>

6 SXSW Film Must-Sees

​ If you're heading to Austin for the SXSW Interactive or Music festivals and have a Gold or Platinum badge, you can use it to get into screenings at the SXSW Film Festival, which starts today and runs all the way through the end of the Music fest next week. SXSW Film has made a name for thems ... More >>

Movie Reviews: When in Rome, Edge of Darkness, Legion

Also, Extraordinary Measures, Saint John of Las Vegas

How To Make Your Pizza Even More Fun Than Mozza: The Yoda Pizza

Via @Atlantic_Food, here's a very funny catalog of odd pizzas from the blog Now That's Nifty. The best of the bunch: this Yoda pizza. A fitting homage, really. So now, of course, what we really need is an Avatar pizza. Wonder what James Cameron is doing with all that 3D gear right now. Maybe eating ... More >>

The Ruhr World

According to James Benning

Panic, Despair and Revolution

Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose

The Oscars: B-Movie King Gets A-List Award

B-movie king and splatter-flick auteur Roger Corman is getting a lifetime achievement Academy Award, the Associate Press is reporting Wednesday.Roger Corman​The director and producer is behind hundreds of horror films, including Children of the Corn, Death Race 2000 and Piranha, that are so graphi ... More >>

Thank God It's the End of Summer!

(Annual rant)

Bienvenue Chez les Ch'tis

France's biggest French-language hit comes to the U.S.

Women's Work - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Saving the world before bedlam

Everything's Gone Green

Filmmakers unleash a new kind of scary movie

What a Trend We Have in Jesus

The Body of Christ? Or some other long-haired dude in The Lost Tomb of Jesus?

Small Town Cinema

Seems Like Old Times

Lucas’ Star Wars III, Schrader’s Exorcist prequel

Return of the Tin Man

Terminator 3 kicks ass from here to Sacramento

Beatrice and Hubert

And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

Not a Movie

Watching the unwatchable

Searching for the Inner Meg

Dr. Solomon’s “cinematherapy”

Boob Tube

Second-rate television for women

Art & Commerce

At an intersection near you

Blow Hard

Wolfgang Petersen’s The Perfect Storm

The Auteur as Gearhead

Notes on the digital video revolution, Part One

Letters

A Night to Forget

I sink, therefore I am

All the King’s Men

The Titanic Transcripts

Major disaster, no Celine Dion

Globular

Hollywood at its most, er, golden. Plus, the latest disco-era lesbian heroin-addict supermodel biopic