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‘Avatar’ director explains new version
“Avatar,” the highest-grossing film in history, returned to theaters today with nine minutes of additional footage. “This is the big experiment — we’re coming out after the home-video release and relatively close on the heels of that home-video release,” writer-director James Cameron said. “That’s what’s weird about this. Most people would say that ends the life cycle. But we know that there were not enough 3-D screens out there to support two big pictures when ‘Alice in Wonderland’ opened [on March 5] and then ‘How to Train Your Dragon.’ They took half our screens. We know there were a lot of people at that point who wanted to see ‘Avatar’ in 3-D on a big screen. Does all that go away after the home-video release? My instinct is that people who wanted to see it on a big screen then will still want to see it on a big screen.”
Forte leaving ‘SNL’
NEW YORK
Will Forte is leaving “Saturday Night Live” after eight seasons. Forte’s publicist Lewis Kay said Thursday that Forte is moving on from “SNL” “to pursue other opportunities.” The 40-year-old Forte starred in and co-wrote the “SNL” spinoff film “MacGruber,” which was released in May.
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