NEW AVATAR 2 Details (James Cameron Looks To Go 7 Miles Underwater For Avatar 2 )

James Cameron is looking to go where no director has gone before (click here to read about the only two people to ever do it) in order to get footage for Avatar 2. Cameron looks to go to the bottom of the sea, seven miles below sea level, to shoot sequences at the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench east of the Philippines. This is the deepest point in the world's oceans, and only two other people have gone there: explorers Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh.

Cameron has commissioned a bespoke submarine, built of high-tech, man-made composite materials and powered by electric motors, which will be capable of surviving the tremendous pressures at a depth of seven miles. He will go there in the sub to shoot 3D footage to be incorporated into Avatar 2. Cameron plans for Avatar 2 to explore the oceans and exotic sea life of the alien world Pandora. The design of the submarine that he will need is not completely clear, but it will likely resemble the $4 million Deep Flight Challenger commissioned by the late American aviator and explorer Steve Fossett in 2007.

Via: 411mania

Avatar Has Now Crossed the $3 Billion Mark

Bluray.com is reporting that Avatar has now sold 6.2 million Blu-ray copies in the first three weeks since launch—that's a steady climb since the 2.7 million sold in the first four days.  On top of that, there's another 13.5 million in DVD sales. 

Let's just take a second and mull over the money machine that is Avatar.  Let's be conservative and use the current price at Amazon for these items, even though most sales would have been for more than this price.

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  6.2 million blu-rays at $19.99 each = $124 million
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  13.5 million DVDs at $15.99 each = $216 million
• Domestic Box Office = $748 million
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  International Box Office = $1.97 billion

Grand Total -- $3 billion dollars in sales so far.

Just to put those numbers in perspective, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight racked up 16 million sales of both Blu-ray and DVDs together.

James Cameron's epic is now the top-selling Blu-ray release of all time worldwide, and it has no signs of slowing down.