{"id":31670,"date":"2013-12-16T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=31670"},"modified":"2013-12-16T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T15:48:00","slug":"cameron-avatar-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/16\/cameron-avatar-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Confirms Trilogy Of AVATAR Sequels To Be Filmed In New Zealand Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you have been worried for New Zealand’s economy now that Peter Jackson’s three-film adaptation of The Hobbit<\/em> is winding down over the next year, you can stop. James Cameron has announced that he will be producing his three planned sequels to his 2009 blockbuster Avatar<\/strong> in the same country whose economy has been helped by the hundreds of millions of dollars that Jackson had been spending on producing his films.<\/p>\n

The announcement came this morning in Wellington at a news conference with Cameron, his producer Jon Landau and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.<\/p>\n

Shooting is expected to start early next year, with all three films being shot at once over a space of nine months. Cameron remarked that he is hoping that economies of scale will help to keep the projected budget for the trilogy under $1 billion. Cameron states that he is not in the habit of releasing the budgets of his films, though estimates have placed the cost of the first Avatar film anywhere between $237 and $310 million.<\/p>\n

Speaking with the Associated Press<\/a>, Cameron described the sequels as something that will grow quite epic in size.<\/p>\n

[The first film] was very Jake-centric. His story seen through his eyes. We spread it around quite a bit more as we go forward. It\u2019s really the story of his family, the family that he creates on Pandora. His extended family. So think of it as a family saga like The Godfather<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The plan is to have the films in theaters annually at Christmastime starting in 2016.<\/p>\n

Via New Zealand Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The plan is to shoot all three films back-to-back.<\/div>\n

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