James Cameron doesn't do anything unless he's doing it big.  The guy just doesn't do half-measures.  I guess it makes perfect sense, then, that the writer-director is going to be pretty single-minded about making the Avatar sequels, of which there might be one more than we expected.  Cameron's so all-about Pandora that from here on out, he won't be developing any films that don't take place in the Avatar universe.

Based on his unabashed aquatic preoccupation, I'd bet that James Cameron's Malibu estate has a beautiful ocean view.  In addition to The Abyss, Titanic, and his many submersible adventures, Cameron has long developed The Dive, a drama based on a real life free-diving couple.  While the world's preeminent blockbuster-maker is busy with his Avatar sequels, though, The Dive is being handed off to director Martin Campbell.

Faced with the age-old dilemma between going big or going home, James Cameron will invariably choose to go big, and he'll go so big as to move himself into a new tax bracket.  He most recently went big with Avatar, which became the biggest movie ever (not adjusted for inflation) usurping his previous achievement in bigness, Titanic.  With the fourteen-year record holder for highest grossing movie of all time getting a 3D re-release this April, you bet your ass Cameron's putting all that bigness on jumbo-sized IMAX screens.

Angelina Jolie has long been associated with Maleficent, Disney's live-action rejiggering of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, and now it looks like production will get underway this summer.  You can see why the studio has been so keen to make the film after 2010's Alice in Wonderland gave the big-budget treatment to a familiar fantasy story and earned a billion dollars globally, and the new fairy tale project is ready to go, as Jolie's committed to make it her next film. 

Not only is the actress currently set to work on Maleficent in just a few short months, but the project seems to have found its sleeping beauty in Elle Fanning.

Altered Carbon, a movie based on the science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan, has been a thing that could maybe happen since the novel was published in 2002, earning a Philip K. Dick Award and ending up a New York Times Notable Book.  Mega-producer Joel Silver owned the rights for some time, but now the newly-formed production company Mythology Entertainment has acquired the feature rights and is actively putting Altered Carbon into development.

Back in 2009, a movie arrived in theaters that transported audiences to a lush, unpolluted alien world without acknowledging the irony of sitting in an air-conditioned theater for its nearly three-hour runtime.  Since Avatar became the biggest movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation), the world has patiently waited for the sequels that James Cameron, in his beneficence, has promised.  The second and third Avatar movies have been consistently pegged for 2014 and 2015, but it looks like we might have to wait an additional two years before Avatar 2 brings Pandora back to Earth.

A few years ago, Sam Worthington was a less globally-recognized name than his fellow Australians Yahoo Serious or Paul Hogan, but starring in the biggest movie of all-time for director James Cameron certainly changed that quite a bit.  After playing paraplegic Marine-turned-messianic-leader Jake Sully in 2009's Avatar, Worthington quite suddenly found himself legitimized as a leading man on level rarely attained by actors of any stripe. 

Since taking his first trip to Pandora, Worthington has appeared in a variety of projects, from starring as Perseus in the 3D remake Clash of the Titans to acting alongside Keira Knightley in the relationship drama Last Night and Jessica Chastain in the Mossad thriller The Debt.  His next film, Man on a Ledge, finds him playing the title character, a wrongly-accused criminal with an elaborate and risky plan to clear his name.  While promoting Man on a Ledge, Worthington sat down with international journalists for a roundtable interview during which he provided updates on some of his new projects, including Thunder Road, the Avatar sequels, and this year's Wrath of the Titans.

Last week we saw the first trailer for the 3D rerelease of Titanic, the 1997 hit that became the biggest movie of all time, until director James Cameron decided to one-up himself with last year's Avatar, which usurped the story of youthful love aboard a doomed ocean liner.  That trailer was like a little time capsule taking us back to those heady days during which the world was infatuated with the film, thanks to Cameron's technical virtuosity, Leonardo DiCaprio's dreaminess, Kate Winslet's impeccable nudity, and Celine Dion belting out "My Heart Will Go On."

Today, though, we have a new featurette on the theatrical reissuing of Titanic, featuring the man himself, James Cameron, discussing the film's lasting emotional resonance and the thinking behind its conversion to 3D.  Cameron's reputation for perfectionism and ambition is well-earned, and when he promises that Titanic will provide a faultless post-conversion 3D experience that is equivalent to a feature filmed with 3D cameras, you take Big Jim at his word.

A new featurette from the upcoming Hugo features a whole mess of new imagery from the rapturous-looking film, as well as behind the scenes footage, but most importantly, it includes Martin Scorsese and James Cameron sitting side by side and talking about 3D.  Hugo represents the legendary Scorsese's first family film and his first use of the newfangled format, while Avatar director Cameron has been a tireless proponent of 3D who has never been at a loss for opinions on how it should be used.  It's a short video, just over two minutes, and it's largely promotional hyperbole, but all the footage from the actual film looks incredible in 2D, and both Scorsese and Cameron are fun to watch and listen to; they're both such formidable filmmakers in very different ways, and sitting next to one another, they're almost caricatures of themselves in a very entertaining way.

Up until Avatar last year, Titanic was by far the most successful movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation, naturally), and since James Cameron is all about three dimensions nowadays, we're getting a theatrical 3D rerelease of the film early next year.  In order to let the world know about said rerelease, a trailer and poster for Titanic 3D are now online and ready to view.

Time has heightened many of the film's flaws, and the backlash against Titanic was vicious enough that is easy to forget just how impossibly popular the film was after its 1997 debut.  This trailer, though, works overtime to push its audience's collective nostalgia-button, and if the sight of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as crazy kids falling in every shade of love doesn't get you, then James Horner's score might just do the trick.  And if that doesn't work, Celine Dion and the unabashed melodrama of "My Heart Will Go On" will be the nostalgia iceberg colliding with your vulnerable heart.