Cameron On A 3D TITANIC Release, A Reissue Of AVATAR, And More!!

Merrick here...
Over at USA Today, Ed Baig spoke to James Cameron about many interesting things. Two particular points of interest jump out of the article. Shortly before AVATAR's release, we began hearing rumblings that TITANIC would return to theaters in a 3Dimensionalized form. Seems a bit more thought has been given to this possibility. Cameron says...

We're targeting spring of 2012 for the release (of a 3D version of Titanic), which is the 100 year anniversary of the sailing of the ship.

Regarding a potential theatrical reissue of AVATAR:

The wildcard is that we might be re-releasing the movie this fall. It's kind of gotten stomped out (in theaters) because of Alice in Wonderland. The word we're getting back from exhibitors is we probably left a couple of hundred million dollars on the table as a result. The question is the appetite still going to be there after the summer glut of movies. We're going to assess that. We're talking about maybe adding in additional footage and doing something creative.

All of this, and more, can be gleaned from USA Today HERE. I can't speak to any national or global trends, but I can say that AVATAR (IMAX) in Austin was extremely well attended...even close-to-packed...in the week leading up to ALICE's arrival. So much so that I was surprised the film was being shown the door before attendance tapered off.
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