The 15 minutes of footage will screen only in 3D at “select cinemas and IMAX theaters.”
“Details on locations and reserving tickets for this extraordinary and unprecedented experience will be announced soon.”
The worldwide trailer launch will be presented in all formats, including IMAX® 3-D, IMAX® 2-D, digital 3-D, digital 2-D, and 35mm 2-D. The trailer will also be available online.
Also on Avatar Day: “Ubisoft will unveil the trailer for their videogame James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game, and Mattel will reveal the action figures for the film’s Avatar and alien Na’vi characters.”
On the eve of the release of his latest movie, “Funny People,” Judd Apatow has signed with Universal to write and direct three films.
The deal, which came together over the past two months, shows the studio’s considerable faith in the filmmaker.
Universal gave Apatow considerable leeway in making “Funny People,” his most personal and serious film, including final cut on the nearly 2 1/2-hour, $75 million movie starring — Adam Sandler and Jonah Hill.
Jeremy Renner, who has earned raves for his performance in “The Hurt Locker,” is in negotiations to join “The Town,” a romantic crime thriller from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures that Ben Affleck is directing. Renner joins Affleck, Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall in the adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s novel “Prince of Thieves.” The story follows a bank manager (Hall), the career criminal (Affleck) who stole more than her heart and the dedicated FBI agent (Hamm) trying to bust the crook and his gang.
Renner plays Affleck’s doomed best friend, a member of the gang.
Russell Crowe will star in “The Next Three Days,” the adaptation of the 2008 French film “Pour Elle” that reunites Lionsgate with its “Crash” director Paul Haggis.
Crowe will play a teacher whose wife is arrested and convicted of a murder she says she did not commit. He comes up with a desperate plan to free her.
Haggis, who wrote the script, will begin production in late September in Pittsburgh.
David Self will adapt the Ludlum novel about a CIA operative who thinks he witnessed the execution of his lover after she was identified as a KGB double agent.
