James Cameron has been pretty stingy with the “Avatar” stuff, except to continually tell us that this thing is going to be better than sliced bread, and you know how great sliced bread is, so it better be really good. But if Cameron feels perfectly alright to go out there and keep telling us it really is great, who am I to say otherwise? This is the man who gave us “Aliens”, the “Terminator” franchise, and “The Abyss”. He forgets more about making sci-fi movies in your average day than I learn in a lifetime, so all props to him. Anyways, what “Avatar” stuff have since shown up on the net? One very clear look at the movie’s set, and one very grainy … something.

The Hollywood Reporter currently has an article that focuses on James Cameron’s return to moviemaking in 10 years. I am talking, of course, about Cameron’s “Avatar”, which is already two and a half years in the making, and is planned for a 2009 release. (I don’t think he’ll meet that deadline myself; Cameron is such a perfectionist, and post-”Titanic”, I don’t think any studio can tell him when he has to turn in his final cut of a movie.) The THR article goes into great detail about how Cameron is shooting the movie, including all the tech breakthroughs he’s developing just for “Avatar”. It’s all very techy, and although I run a sci-fi movie blog, my eyes tend to gloss over when people get too techy with me.

Well, in silhouette form, anyway. It actually looks a lot like the last supposed “Avatar” alien we saw back in June 2007, which Cameron and the production have since debunked. I guess they were lying to us, because that design sure looks an awful lot like this latest one that has appeared online. Then again, who is to say that this recent design is actually one of the Na’vi aliens from “Avatar”? Anyways, head on below to see it.

Blue-skinned, tall lanky aliens with no bones? Predators that throw their heads at you? And planet-raping fascist human interlopers? All those things, and more, in James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi epic “Avatar”! And oh yeah, it’s all obviously an eco-friendly movie with a “message”, and according to the person who reviewed the 170-page “script” treatment (an admitted diehard environmentalist), that’s one of the script’s problems: It’s too preachy.

James Cameron really, really likes 3D filmmaking. In fact, he loves it so much, and believes it will be the wave of the future, that he plans on making all of his future movies in 3D. Then again, considering that Cameron hasn’t made butkus in the last decade or so, I guess that means he’ll be making two or three more movies in this lifetime, right? Just kidding. Here’s what Cameron said about “Avatar” and his plans for it. He also reveals a little bit more about the movie’s plot, which concerns a human on an alien planet and intergalactic war.

Let’s face it, if you’re not all giddy everytime you hear something about James Cameron’s “Avatar”, then you just aren’t a sci-fi fan. The latest has Cameron himself answering emails from the boys over at Aint-it-Cool-News, where he updates the geeks and geekettes about the current state of his sci-fi epic, “Avatar”.

I hesitate to say that this is, honest to Goodness, the first real piece of artwork from James Cameron’s highly-anticipated “Avatar” movie, because Cameron hasn’t shown squat to anyone, and everything I’ve thought were authentic have turned out not to be so. But hell, whatever, here’s something that may be from “Avatar” (thumbnail to your left, bigger version below).

If Aussie Sam Worthington is not trying to make his bones as Hollywood’s go-to guy for sci-fi epics, then he’s doing a heck of a bad job at it. After winning the coveted leading man role in James Cameron’s sure-to-be massive hit “Avatar”, Worthington has now landed the plum role in the upcoming “Terminator” trilogy, starting with the first, “Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins”, alongside Christian Bale.

This teaser poster for James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi epic “Avatar” showed up online mid-2007, but for one reason or another, I just never got around to posting it. So here it is — a picture someone snapped of the poster for “Avatar”. Hey, they don’t call it a “teaser” poster for nothing, you know. It does what it was designed to do — tease. The movie being 2 years off, it’s a miracle we’re getting anything now at all.

James Cameron’s mammoth undertaking “Avatar” is still a couple of years away from being anywhere near “releasable”, but the Fox studio has already decided to change the film’s release date from the original Memorial Day 2009 to December 18th, 2009, says Variety. For those keeping track of Cameron’s past works, this means “Avatar” will open in the same weekend as Cameron’s last film, 1997’s massive hit “Titanic”.