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In front of the camera since he broke in as a child actor in the 1970s, Giovanni Ribisi made a detour and makes his debut as a cinematographer in the JT Mollner-directed Miramax film Strange Darling. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest to strong reviews, has a 100% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and gets…

UPDATE: The death on July 5 of Jon Landau has had a great impact on the industry as well as everyone who knew him and/or his work. A veteran studio executive who later teamed with James Cameron to produce and win a Best Picture Oscar for Titanic and then go o…

Sam Worthington, who played hero Jake Sully in the original Avatar and sequel Avatar: The Way of Water, and is set to appear in Avatar 3, 4, and 5, has issued a statement on the death of producer Jon Landau, whom he worked with on the films. Worthington referenced the Na’vi (The People), the sapient…

James Cameron is mourning the death of a close friend and collaborator. Following the death of Titanic and Avatar producer Jon Landau, the Oscar-winning director paid tribute to his late Lightstorm Entertainment partner in a heartfelt statement on Saturday. “The Avatar family grieves the loss of…

Jon Landau, the illustrious producer and COO of James Cameron‘s Lightstorm Entertainment, died July 5 in Los Angeles after a 16-month-long battle with cancer. He was 63. Landau produced films generated by Cameron that include 1997’s Best Picture Oscar winner Titanic, which tied Ben-Hur for most…

Inside Out 2 has entered the prestigious league of movies whose films have crossed the $1 billion mark in box office earnings. The animated film features the voices of Amy Poehler, Tony Hale, Phyllis Smith, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Maya Hawke. The 2023 summer smash Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan…

Sigourney Weaver is in talks to return to space for a key role in the next Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian & Grogu. Jon Favreau is directing the film as well as producing alongside Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and chief creative officer Dave Filoni. Production is slated to start later this…

It has been hailed as one of the most memorable Saturday Night Live videos of the past decade. During his second turn as host in 2017, Ryan Gosling headlined a video titled Papyrus in which he plays a man obsessed by the fact that James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar used Papyrus, a common letter style, for…

After Disney declared victory in its proxy battle with activist investor Nelson Peltz, CEO Bob Iger went on a theme-park offensive during the company’s annual shareholder meeting. Delivering scripted video remarks from a perch overlooking Disneyland, Iger extolled the parks as a key strategic area of…

Millie Bobby Brown is once again reigning over Netflix with her latest project. Her new film Damsel recorded 35.3M views in just three days of availability, easily boosting it to the top of the English film charts (and taking the crown as the most-watched title of the week) from March 4 to March 10…

The auditions for Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender, which premiered Feb. 22 on the streamer, were very cloak and dagger. Netflix went to great lengths to keep the auditions secret – including writing fake scenes set in a bank. That caused some confusion among the auditoners. And for Ken…

Having worked in Pandora, Gotham City and the North Atlantic, Joyce Cox is getting a career honor from the Visual Effects Society. The veteran VFX producer who worked on the billion-dollar pics Avatar, The Dark Knight and Titanic will receive the group’s Lifetime Achievement Award next month. The…