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You would think that as technology advances, visual art forms such as film – including home media – would see a definite improvement in quality. But here we are yet again, getting bummed out over how studios have taken cleaning up transfers too far, polishing iconic movies into a “pristine” oblivion. And yes, they may have once more botched another James Cameron 4K Blu-ray. Game over, man!

The latest example comes via the 4K release of James Cameron’s Aliens, which came out on March 12th. As HD Report noted via a side-by-side comparison, even the high-definition transfer released 14 years ago is more respectable than the 4K one out just last week: “When comparing the two, the old Blu-ray is a better representation of celluloid at a time when filmmakers are trying to make images look less digital.” Hell, you can even see how Newt feels about it in the second image!

Perhaps you've had this experience:

You hear about an interesting movie or show, or you remember an old favorite, and you reason that since it's a well-known title, it's several years old, and you subscribe to several streaming services, you should be able to watch it for free somewhere.

Then you conduct the research that's necessary to find anything in the vast streaming landscape, and you realize that you're gonna have to shell out to rent or buy this thing.

Or worse, that film or series simply is not available. Anywhere.

If you're lucky, you can go on Amazon and have the DVD delivered in a couple of days, but you haven't seen your DVD player since Obama was in office, and you need something to watch now.

From comedy classics like Cocoon to Oscar winners like Il Postino to beloved children's movies like The Brave Little Toaster to action...

Never bet against James Cameron. The man is responsible for some of the best and highest-grossing blockbusters of the last 40 years, and yet every time he makes a new (and admittedly risky) movie, everyone is skeptical about its chances of success. Granted, Cameron himself saying "Avatar: The Way of Water" had to become one of the highest-grossing movies of all time just to break even does sound ludicrous and nearly impossible, but still! Jimmy C delivers.

Of course, hindsight is 20/20, and it is easy to see now that the "Avatar" franchise just prints money, but before 2009 there were plenty of reasons to be doubtful of a brand-new sci-fi movie making that much money. This means that James Cameron faced naysayers, particularly studio execs who thought they knew how to deliver the highest-grossing movie of all time better than the guy who had done it already.

In an interview with The New York Times,...

Back in December, the James Cameron films The Abyss, Aliens, True Lies, Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water were all given 4K digital releases. Next Tuesday, March 12th, is the day when The Abyss, Aliens, and True Lies are going to get their physical 4K Uhd releases – and to mark the occasion, we got our hands on an Exclusive clip from one of the bonus featurettes that will be on The Abyss disc! You can check it out in the embed above.

The Abyss has the following synopsis: In this underwater sci-fi adventure written and directed by James Cameron, a nuclear sub mysteriously sinks and a private oil rig crew, led by foreman Bud Brigman, is recruited to join a team of Navy SEALs on a search and rescue effort. The group soon finds themselves on a spectacular life-and-death odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, where they find...

Dunki Achieves New Milestones On Netflix!(Photo Credit –IMDb)

Shah Rukh Khan led Dunki witnessed a decent run at the Indian box office. The Rajkumar Hirani directorial made a total box office collection of 232 crores. The comedy-drama is now achieving new milestones on Netflix, surpassing biggies like Animal and Dune in viewership. Scroll below for all the details!

After enjoying a box office run of over 1.5 months, Dunki premiered on Netflix on February 15, 2024. The film received a much better response on the digital platform and has remained among the top 10 non-English films globally. Ranbir Kapoor led Animal, which created havoc with its earth-shattering box office collections, was released on the digital platform on January 26, 2024.

Dunki crowned #1 on Netflix

For the period of February 26-March 3, Dunki remained in the 8th spot among the top 10 non-English films globally on Netflix. With a runtime of 2 hours and 40 minutes, it garnered around 1.7 million views...

James Cameron’s Aliens will still be arriving on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in the UK this April after all, just a few weeks later than originally planned.

Next week, over in the US, the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release of James Cameron’s Aliens lands in store. It does so alongside releases of The Abyss and True Lies, and in the case of each of these, the UK has a slightly different story to tell.

The Abyss has been cancelled altogether, for falling foul of the BBFC. More on that here. True Lies has been put back to 1st April, but is still very much on the way, and you can find more on that here.

As for Aliens? Well, it mysteriously disappeared off the schedules altogether last week, instead sitting at a holding date of the end of the year. The film had been due on 4K disc...

Screambox has revealed the new films that are joining the horror streaming service in March, including Followers, Exit Humanity, Alien from the Abyss, and the extremely popular UK series “Being Human”!

Inspired by the success of Alien and The Abyss, Alien from the Abyss has invaded Screambox! Newly restored in 4K by Severin Films, Charles Napier (The Silent of the Lambs) stars in the 1989 Italian knock-off.

Like You’re Next for the influencer generation, Screambox Exclusive Followers streams on March 12. The home invasion thriller finds a social media influencer in the crosshairs of a relentless dark web cult.

A werewolf, a vampire, and a ghost attempt to coexist in the British supernatural comedy series “Being Human”. The first season hits Screambox on March 22, with the remaining four seasons dropping weekly through April 19.

The Bloody Disgusting Selects zombie period piece Exit Humanity bites into Screambox on March 22. Hailed as “not a movie,...

Avatar: The Last Airbender was the star of the show on Netflix last week.

The streamer’s latest live action adaptation amassed 21.2M views in its opening weekend, making it in the Top 10 in 92 countries. Read more about Avatar‘s premiere ratings here.

While Avatar came in No. 1 among TV, it was beaten out for most-watched title of the week by the Swedish natural disaster thriller The Abyss, which drew 22.3M views and topped the non-English film list.

In second place among TV was One Day, which managed 7.5M views. Season 6 of the fan-favorite dating experiment Love is Blind followed at No. 3, also with 7.5M views.

Rounding out the top five were Can I Tell You A Secret? at No. 4 with 6.5M views and Griselda in fifth place with 3.1M views.

On the English films list, Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa took the top spot with 16M views. The romantic...

The results are in, and Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender seems to be a hit.

The live action adaptation topped the streamer’s weekly English-language TV list with 21.2M views in its opening weekend. According to Netflix, it reached the Top 10 in 92 countries. It was edged out as most-watched title of the week by the Swedish natural disaster film The Abyss.

That’s a strong showing for the eight-episode series, which was another big swing for Netflix as it continues to dip its toes into anime-inspired content. In fact, Avatar managed to surpass One Piece in its debut weekend.

As with One Piece, Netflix was firing on all cylinders to launch the series, partnering with Serena Williams and even taking over the Las Vegas Sphere. So far, the Avatar global social campaign has reached 1.53B impressions, which is on par with both One Piece as well as Netflix’s hit series Wednesday.

Through Sunday, “Mean Girls” was the highest-grossing domestic film two months into 2024.

Its total is $15 million less than, though still quite close to, the longer-running “Anyone but You” (Sony), similarly with significant female appeal. But the results for the first week with both available show that Will Gluck’s Australian-set rom-com is doing much better at home than the musical remake of the hit 2004 high school clique satire.

Meanwhile, little is more normal than a new original Tyler Perry film placing immediately at #1 on Netflix. “Mea Culpa,” starring Kelly Rowland as an attorney who takes on a tough murder defense to enhance her chances at partnership at her firm, is the hyphenate’s first film since 2022 and third consecutive production for the streamer.

“Anyone but You” has a slight edge over “Mean Girls” in its pricing. The former can be digitally purchased for $19.99, while that price yields a 48-hour rental...

Los Angeles, Oct 2 (Ians) Filmmaker James Cameron almost lost his life on the set of “The Abyss”.

The 69-year-old director helmed the 1989 science fiction film about a deep sea research team trying to recover a lost Navy submarine but found himself in a life-or-death situation when he was shooting underwater and the oxygen tank was running out but he had no way of contacting the photographer above the surface.

“We had the ‘angels’, which were the safety divers that were right there, and each one was assigned to one or two of the actors and just kept them in sight the whole time. (But) they weren’t watching me,” he told Variety, reports aceshowbiz.com.

“Everybody’s setting lights and nobody’s watching. I’m trying to get (underwater director of photography) Al Giddings’ attention on the (public address). But Al had been involved in a diving accident, and he blew out both eardrums.

Los Angeles, Oct 2 (Ians) Filmmaker James Cameron almost lost his life on the set of “The Abyss”.

The 69-year-old director helmed the 1989 science fiction film about a deep sea research team trying to recover a lost Navy submarine but found himself in a life-or-death situation when he was shooting underwater and the oxygen tank was running out but he had no way of contacting the photographer above the surface.

“We had the ‘angels’, which were the safety divers that were right there, and each one was assigned to one or two of the actors and just kept them in sight the whole time. (But) they weren’t watching me,” he told Variety, reports aceshowbiz.com.

“Everybody’s setting lights and nobody’s watching. I’m trying to get (underwater director of photography) Al Giddings’ attention on the (public address). But Al had been involved in a diving accident, and he blew out both eardrums.

James Cameron wasn’t as confident staring into “The Abyss” in 1989.

The Oscar winner explained during a Beyond Fest panel moderated by IndieWire’s Jim Hemphill that the underwater sci-fi action film was the “first really big, kind of mega-budget movie” in his career. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio starred as divorced petroleum engineers who are hired to assist a Navy Seal (Michael Biehn) in recovering a nuclear submarine. The 20th Century Fox film had a budget of $43 million and grossed $90 at the worldwide box office before winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

“Well, this was my first really big, kind of mega-budget movie,” Cameron said onstage. “It wasn’t kind of a slam dunk in the way ‘Aliens’ was. Like, we just knew ‘Aliens’ worked. This one, we didn’t know exactly how it was going to work.”

Cameron’s unease led to his first test...

A place on earth more awesome than anywhere in space. There’s everything you’ve ever known about adventure, and then there’s…a 4K restoration of The Abyss! James Cameron has confirmed that a 4K home video release of his 1989 film The Abyss will be emerging from the depths sometime soon.

Speaking at Beyond Fest (via Variety), which hosted a special screening of The Abyss, James Cameron confirmed, “All of the mastering is done and I think it drops pretty soon — a couple of months or something like that…There’s a lot of added material that they’re sticking in there, and it will be available on streaming simultaneously. But I didn’t just want to look at the old HD transfer. I wanted to do it right.” As it turns out, the screening of The Abyss was in fact a 4K version, allowing the director to show...

James Cameron appeared Wednesday at Los Angeles genre festival Beyond Fest for a q&a about “The Abyss” after a screening of the film’s seldom-seen two hour and 51 minute Special Edition. During his conversation with moderator Jim Hemphill, Cameron confirmed completion of the 4K restoration he announced last year, physical and streaming versions of which he said were “out of his hands” but all work has long been concluded. “All of the mastering is done and I think it drops pretty soon — a couple of months or something like that,” Cameron said in response to an audience question. “There’s a lot of added material that they’re sticking in there, and it will be available on streaming simultaneously. But I didn’t just want to look at the old HD transfer. I wanted to do it right.”

Back in 1989, the film marked one of the filmmaker’s few...