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Cameron's Avatar Delayed
Film geeks anxiously awaiting James Cameron's first big-screen spectacular in nearly 15 years are going to have to wait just a little bit longer.
On Wednesday, 20th Century Fox announced it will postpone the Oscar-winning helmer's highly anticipated 3-D sci-fi action film Avatar, from May 22, 2009 until Dec. 18, 2009.
And for a change, the delay doesn't have to do with the ongoing writers' strike.
The reason, according to the Hollywood Reporter, is to allow more time to complete what are expected to be some of the most elaborate 3-D special effects ever conceived.
Replacing Avatar as the studio's Memorial Day tent pole will be the Ben Stiller-powered sequel Night at the Museum 2: Escape from the Smithsonian.
For Cameron, the scheduling swticheroo must feel like déjà vu.
A decade ago, Fox pushed back Titanic from July to Dec. 19, 1997, following a slew of production problems that caused the budget to balloon to $200 million—the costliest film ever at the time.
Unlike Titanic, which made headlines for bean-counting studio execs, this time Fox says the move is purely strategic.
The erstwhile King of the World will be given more time to perfect specially designed performance-capture software with Peter Jackson's WETA.
The studio also claims that a Christmas release could benefit Avatar because it's expected there will be more than 4,000 3-D screens up and running by that time.
"This is a win-win for us," Hutch Parker, vice chairman of Fox Film Group, told the Reporter. "Avatar goes to the Titanic date in December, which was obviously auspicious for Jim and us, and by the time of the release, there will be more worldwide 3-D screens available."
(Titanic remains the all-time worldwide box-office champ, with $1.8 billion in ticket sales.)
The shift will also keep Avatar away fromDreamWorks and Paramount's animated 3-D offering, Monsters vs. Aliens. That film was initially scheduled to open on a week before Cameron's adventure on May 15, but the studios moved it to Mar. 27 to keep from having to compete with Avatar for 3-D locations and to take advantage of spring break and the Easter holiday.
Avatar focuses on a band of soldiers fighting an alien battalion on a distant planet. The film reunites Cameron with Aliens star Sigourney Weaver; the cast also includes Aussie actor Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez and Giovanni Ribisi.
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