newsmakers

May 14, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

newsmakers

Cameron: 3-D will be the standard

SEOUL, South Korea

“Avatar” director James Cameron said Thursday that 3-D will replace 2-D as the standard, mainstream format for film, television and online content in less than 25 years. Viewers soon will not only enjoy films in 3-D theaters but all forms of entertainment, including sports and music shows on TVs and laptops, Cameron said at a technology forum in Seoul.

Cameron directed the 3-D epic “Avatar,” which won three Oscars and is the highest-grossing film in history, with $2.7 billion in worldwide ticket sales to date. He also has directed other blockbuster films such as “Titanic” and “Terminator.”

“Avatar” has proved that 3-D technology is not just a fad but a revolution, changing how the audience chooses to consume media and entertainment content, the 56-year-old director said in a speech to the Seoul Digital Forum, an annual technology and media gathering.

‘Deadliest Catch’ crewman convicted

EUGENE, Ore.

A crab-boat deckhand who appeared on the “Deadliest Catch” reality show has pleaded guilty to three Oregon bank-robbery charges and been sentenced to nine years in prison. The shackled 23-year-old Joshua Tell Warner apologized to tellers who attended the hearing Wednesday in Lane County Circuit Court.

The Register-Guard reports Warner robbed a Eugene bank in October 2007 before he joined the crew of the Wizard and robbed two other banks last year after his stint in Alaska.

Warner’s lawyer, John Kolego, says the TV appearance led to his arrest. Viewers who recognized Warner as a suspect in the robberies called police last fall, and a warrant was issued. He was arrested in a traffic stop in East Peoria, Ill.

Lil Wayne accused of breaking jail rule

NEW YORK

An official says Lil Wayne’s efforts to keep up the beat behind bars have gotten him in trouble in a New York City jail. A city Correction Department spokesman says the rap star faces potential discipline after jail officers found a charger and headphones for a digital music player in his cell Monday. The rapper is serving a yearlong sentence after pleading guilty to a 2007 gun charge.

Officers said the music player itself turned up in another inmate’s nearby cell. Both men were charged with infractions that are not crimes. They’ll be subject to a jail disciplinary process, not a court. Inmates can listen to music, but only on radios and headphones sold at the jail commissary.