yorrick brown
12-12-2007, 12:32 AM
Fox Sets New Avatar, Museum 2 Dates
Source: Variety December 12, 2007
20th Century Fox has announced the studio will release Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian on May 22, 2009 and move back James Cameron's 3-D Avatar from the Memorial Day weekend to December 18, 2009, giving the director more time for post-production.
Director Shawn Levy and star Ben Stiller reunite for "Smithsonian," which will be the first major Hollywood movie shot at the museum complex in Washington, D.C. The screenplay was written by Night at the Museum scribes Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, with a rewrite by Scott Frank.
Additional casting for "Smithsonian" will be announced in the coming weeks, with some actors from the first film expected to return. In bringing the Smithsonian museum to life, sequel also will introduce historical figures to the franchise, including Amelia Earhart, whom Reese Witherspoon has been approached to play.
Avatar will now open on the same weekend that Cameron's Titanic did in 1997. The live-action/CGI hybrid is Cameron's first feature since Titanic, which, after a decade, remains the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing $1.8 billion at the worldwide box office.
Pushing back the release of Avatar from May to December allows both more time to work on the effects and that much more time for additional theaters to install 3-D screens both here and abroad. Cameron will soon complete live-action principal photography in New Zealand, on schedule.
Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios announced that Fox has decided to produce Ice Age 3 in digital 3-D. The animated sequel was already set for release on July 1, 2009. Ice Age: The Meltdown director Carlos Saldanha, will direct a script by Michael Berg and Peter Ackerman. Voice talent Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah and Denis Leary are back onboard.
Fox had previously announced it will kick-off summer 2009 with the release of Hugh Jackman starrer X-Men Origins: Wolverine on May 1.
Source: Variety December 12, 2007
20th Century Fox has announced the studio will release Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian on May 22, 2009 and move back James Cameron's 3-D Avatar from the Memorial Day weekend to December 18, 2009, giving the director more time for post-production.
Director Shawn Levy and star Ben Stiller reunite for "Smithsonian," which will be the first major Hollywood movie shot at the museum complex in Washington, D.C. The screenplay was written by Night at the Museum scribes Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, with a rewrite by Scott Frank.
Additional casting for "Smithsonian" will be announced in the coming weeks, with some actors from the first film expected to return. In bringing the Smithsonian museum to life, sequel also will introduce historical figures to the franchise, including Amelia Earhart, whom Reese Witherspoon has been approached to play.
Avatar will now open on the same weekend that Cameron's Titanic did in 1997. The live-action/CGI hybrid is Cameron's first feature since Titanic, which, after a decade, remains the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing $1.8 billion at the worldwide box office.
Pushing back the release of Avatar from May to December allows both more time to work on the effects and that much more time for additional theaters to install 3-D screens both here and abroad. Cameron will soon complete live-action principal photography in New Zealand, on schedule.
Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios announced that Fox has decided to produce Ice Age 3 in digital 3-D. The animated sequel was already set for release on July 1, 2009. Ice Age: The Meltdown director Carlos Saldanha, will direct a script by Michael Berg and Peter Ackerman. Voice talent Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah and Denis Leary are back onboard.
Fox had previously announced it will kick-off summer 2009 with the release of Hugh Jackman starrer X-Men Origins: Wolverine on May 1.