Results tagged “The Lord of the Rings” from Birmingham Mail - Mega Movies

NOT ONE, but two 'world premiere' 16-minute teaser screenings of James Cameron's forthcoming blockbuster AVATAR were aired in 3D at Birmingham's Cineworld Broad Street cinema tonight.

And they were truly amazing!

I can't wait for the film to open on December 18 since it looks set to represent a once-in-a-generation quantum leap in filmmaking technique.

It's not just the scale of the film which looks astonishing, but its visual depth, too.

We saw several scenes from the first half of the film which, as Cameron said at the beginning during his introduction, didn't appear to give anything away.

The music wasn't great, but I would imagine that is still a work in progress and was a dummy track.

Visually, though, it was quite wonderful, especially the look in a creature's eye the second that it had been 'broken in'.

For me, this was the single most brilliant moment of the whole 16 minutes, a reflection of how startled audiences will be once they are finally let loose on a film that I'd say is 99.999 per cent guaranteed to win next year's special effects Oscar.

During his intro, it was interesting to see how Cameron is looking these days... he seems to be turning into a grey-haired Sir Paul McCartney (another genius!).

Since AVATAR will be released on December 18, 2009, it is sure to be THE film of 2010, too with repeat business offering Cameron the chance to top the box office in both years.

But it's definitely the film I'm most looking forward to since The Return of the King concluded The Lord of the Rings series in the UK on December 17, 2003 before going on to win a shed load of Oscars in the spring.

With a global box office worth almost $1.2 billion, ROTK is still the second highest grossing movie in film history (with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest third, The Dark Knight fourth and Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone fifth).

Cameron's Titanic is still the world's highest grossing movie with its 1997 box office worth $1.86 billion (but the Birmingham-influenced LOTR trilogy is still the world's highest-grossing trilogy with a global take of $2.92 billion!).

If you love movies like Alien, LOTR, Blade Runner, Terminator 2 and Howl's Moving Castle, I think you'll be gobsmacked by Avatar.

The current thinking is that the film will get a 12A certificate (anything surely can after The Dark Knight!), just like tonight's 16-minute special.

Expect AVATAR to gross more than $1 billion worlwide and for it to challenge Titanic right at the top of, er, Hollywood's iceberg.

Continue to reading here to journey inside the mind of James Cameron!

WHAT wonderful news that J R R Tolkien's book The Hobbit is set to be turned into a major movie by my favourite foreign director, Guillermo Del Toro.

Films already directed by the brilliant 43-year-old Mexican include The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth.

This summer he'll be releasing action sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army and he also produced recent sensational Spanish shocker The Orphanage - the best spooky movie for at least five years.

As well as making The Hobbit, Del Toro will also be making another movie currently titled The Hobbit 2 back-to-back just like The Lord of the Rings trilogy itself...