{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Avatar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31671\" alt=\"Avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Avatar.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Avatar.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Avatar-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have been worried for New Zealand&#8217;s economy now that Peter Jackson&#8217;s three-film adaptation of <em>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 <strong>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<p>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<p>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<p>Speaking with the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ap-interview-cameron-sees-epic-39-avatar-39-064834352--finance.html\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, Cameron described the sequels as something that will grow quite epic in size.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[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 <strong>The Godfather<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The plan is to have the films in theaters annually at Christmastime starting in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&amp;objectid=11173287\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The plan is to shoot all three films back-to-back.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/16\/cameron-avatar-sequels\/\" title=\"Cameron Confirms Trilogy Of AVATAR Sequels To Be Filmed In New Zealand Next Year\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2703,3220,5263,1653],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-avatar-2","9":"tag-avatar-3","10":"tag-avatar-4","11":"tag-james-cameron"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31670"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=31670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}