If you were watching Charlie Rose the other night you heard  James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic, Terminator) say that he would rather have his ex-wife  Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, Blue Steel) win the best director Oscar for “The Hurt Locker” because “I don’t really need another one.” He admitted he still wants “Avatar” to win Best [...]

Avatar will be a huge movie event and the producers of the film are anxious to show what 300 million dollars and years of innovative film technology can muster. Before the film opens, there is an unabashed effort to educate those non-science fiction oriented movie goer. Going beyond Star-Wars-like technology, Avatar is an ambitious foray [...]

James Cameron is the director of  expensive, tech savvy films that could make or break a studio. More often than not, he’s a goldmine, with each picture growing in complexity and popularity.    (“The Terminator” lead to “Aliens” which led to “The Abyss“.  Then came ” Terminator 2″, “True Lies” and then the record-breaking, “Titanic” [...]

One of the Daily Helping’s favorite directors is Kathryn Bigelow.  Once married to Titanic/Terminator director, James Cameron in the early 90′s,  Bigelow has established herself as one of the few respected, and  successful female directors of our time. (Of the top 250 films released in North America every year, and the 8,500 directors represented in [...]