First Poster for James Cameron's 'Avatar'

Don't forget that August 21st is Free Avatar Day, when you'll have a chance to see 15 minutes of James Cameron's highly anticipated new film in a 3-D theater or IMAX near you. Gratis. Pretty good deal, don't you think? I don't know if the general public will see a trailer before that (to help promote the event) or not. My hunch is, and this is just a hunch, that the trailer might be attached to District 9 in a couple of weeks. Makes the most sense, really. But we've got our first official poster now: It's said (by Geek Tyrant) to feature the character played by the lovely Zoe Saldana, although because of Cameron's visual trickery, you couldn't tell by looking. She's an alien - no, really? - which are called the Na'vi in Avatar. You'll get the full effect, of course, when Avatar is released on December 18th. And we'll give you another reminder about Free Avatar Day when the theaters are announced.

Comments

[Asana]

Curious, why is it that Cameron's film bears a title more familiarly associated with a boy who can bend air... without hair? Meanwhile, Shyamalan's film settles for the use of a subtitle as its title instead of leading with Avatar. Is it just a matter of who laid claim to rights of use on the word first?

[Jeff]

In response to Asana, I believe James Cameron started working on this after Titanic, which was over a decade ago. That was well before the boy who can bend air. For me, the title Avatar is more familiarly associated with Cameron's movie. Of course, that's just me.

[Get The Big Picture]

I believe it depends on which film came first, as far as the titles go. Something can be on TV for a long time but unless that title is registered with the MPAA for film purposes, somebody could take it, not that Cameron stole the name. There would be exceptions, of course, like a movie called Marcus Welby would have to change its name if it had nothing to do with the original series.

But I think in general terms it's a first-come first-served kind of thing.

[Lengthy Johnson]

Avatar is just a generic word, which means the embodiment of a deity or spirit.

Therefore James Cameron uses the term in the most correct sense.

It's also been used as a word for online personas for a very long time.

Movie titles are generally not regarded as protected by copyright unless they are very specific and there is an element of passing off.

It is however sad and telling that people tend to associate everything with inane kids' entertainment (i.e. the cartoon Avatar) rather than culture (i.e. the hindu concept of avatarism).

[domliya]

I got to see the trailer of this movie Avatar (2009) it was an faction movie filled with so much of interest lot of adventures are come up in the tale of revival and I does like to see the movie in the future this movie review I have read was so well detailed of the movie and it was a good help for the movie fans
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