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Earlier this morning, we discussed how Twitter (Twitter) can either sink a movie or make it a success. James Cameron’s newest creation, Avatar, isn’t due out until December, but the release of its trailer this morning on Apple’s website (and announced on Twitter) seems likely to make it perhaps the most discussed movie-not-due-out-for-4-months we’ve ever seen.

Avatar Day's main attraction gets moved ahead a day to appease eager fans.

This week at the movies, we've got an alien nation (District 9, starring Jason Cope and Sharlto Copley); a high school musical (Bandslam, starring Gaelan Connell and Vanessa Hudgens); a goldfish/human hybrid (Ponyo, with voice work by Cate Blanchett and Noah Cyrus); an ill-timed love affair (The Time Traveler's Wife, starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana), and some renegade salesmen ...

Battlestar Galactica is getting the big-screen treatment. Universal Pictures has confirmed blog speculation that Bryan Singer, director of Valkyrie, will take on directing and producing duties for a BSG movie.

FRIDAY PM UPDATE: With a big pricetag of $175 million, and bad buzz preceding it, G.I. Joe seemed certain to tank. For months, Paramount's claims that the movie worked fell on deaf ears. Not until the Stephen Sommers' directed pic came on tracking with incredibly high awareness among males (with scores in the 90s).

Fifty-six years after Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 in nine days, his science-fiction classic is being ...

Can District 9 bring the Halo movie back to life?

When James Cameron directed his first 3-D film, “Terminator 2: 3-D,” for Universal Studios theme parks more than a decade ago, the bulky camera equipment made some shots awkward or impossible.

Legendary Pictures and Blizzard Entertainment have announced that Sam Raimi, director of Spiderman trilogy, will be taking the reigns of the upcoming Warcraft movie.

Charles Roven, who previously worked on The Dark Knight, is set to produce the film alongside Raimi.

The "Transformers" sequel has become China's biggest boxoffice hit ever by earning 400 million Chinese yuan ($59 million), a publicist for one of the country's two film importers said.