Avatar is now the #1 movie all-time domestic and worldwide! (unadjusted of course)
With Tuesday's totals in, Avatar sits at $601.2 million Domestic and $2074 million worldwide.
It accomplished all this in just 47 days in release. It will interesting to see what heights it can obtain in what is likely to be a long run in theaters!
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The wife and I snuck out and saw it at IMAX today. We both really liked it. I was prepared not to like it based on comments I've read here and other places but the truth is - it's a very good movie.
As a side note, the IMAX must have been 3/4 full at 3 pm on a weekday. WTF?
Wife and I saw it Thursday night, IMAX was pretty much full for the show we caught. I wasn't expecting to like it as I hate 3D movies, but it is probably in my top 10 now, fantastic visually.
Some fun facts about Weta Digital's server farm used to render Avatar.
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Weta Digital is really a visual effects job shop that manages thousands of work orders of intense amounts of data. That preselects most of the fast, constant capacity equipment required. The data center used to process the effects for AVATAR is Weta’s 10,000 square foot facility, rebuilt and stocked with HP BL2x220c blades in the summer of 2008.
The computing core - 34 racks, each with four chassis of 32 machines each - adds up to some 40,000 processors and 104 terabytes of RAM. The blades read and write against 3 petabytes of fast fiber channel disk network area storage from BluArc and NetApp.
All the gear sits tightly packed and connected by multiple 10-gigabit network links. “We need to stack the gear closely to get the bandwidth we need for our visual effects, and, because the data flows are so great, the storage has to be local,” says Paul Gunn, Weta’s data center systems administrator.
That ruled out colocation or cloud infrastructure, leaving Gunn as a sort of owner-operator responsible for keeping the gear running. It also required some extra engineering for the hardware because the industry standard of raised floors and forced-air cooling could not keep up with the constant heat coming off the machines churning out a project like AVATAR.
Heat exchange for an installation like Weta’s has to be enclosed, water cooled racks where the hot air is sucked into a radiator and cycled back through the front of the machines. “Plus,” Gunn says, “we run the machines a bit warm, which modern gear doesn’t mind, and the room itself is fairly cool.”
Weta was supposed to do work on District 9 as well but I think Avatar kept them too busy so all they did was render the mothership or something and the rest was Industrial Light and Magic.
Haha. I knew you'd be religiously checking this thread. Secretly I bet you've been walking around for a month painted in blue and complaining that regular life just isn't the same as the Avatar world.
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I finally got to see it last night, though only in a normal theater not at the IMAX.
Was quite impressed. The story is pretty standard and a bit saccharine, a little too "We are one with the planet", but still enjoyable.
The 3D was well done for the most part I thought, though sometimes they were too far into "HEY LOOK 3D" territory. I want to see it on the IMAX though because IMAX has the better quality glasses right? The LCD shutters rather than ploarization?
Aliens weren't nearly alien enough, though I can appreciate why they'd do that (realism vs. appeal).
Overall worth the nite out.
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I finally got to see it last night, though only in a normal theater not at the IMAX.
Was quite impressed. The story is pretty standard and a bit saccharine, a little too "We are one with the planet", but still enjoyable.
The 3D was well done for the most part I thought, though sometimes they were too far into "HEY LOOK 3D" territory. I want to see it on the IMAX though because IMAX has the better quality glasses right? The LCD shutters rather than ploarization?
Aliens weren't nearly alien enough, though I can appreciate why they'd do that (realism vs. appeal).
Overall worth the nite out.
glasses for IMAX are the same (polarized), just better quality/more comfortable.
the 3D has more depth in Imax because of the resolution of IMAX 3D vs regular 3D.
glasses for IMAX are the same (polarized), just better quality/more comfortable.
the 3D has more depth in Imax because of the resolution of IMAX 3D vsregular 3D.
Not sure what that means as I'm pretty sure Imax cameras weren't used. Unless there is something that can be done post production to 'Imax' the movie, it will be the same movie on a larger screen.
Not sure what that means as I'm pretty sure Imax cameras weren't used. Unless there is something that can be done post production to 'Imax' the movie, it will be the same movie on a larger screen.
The fact that most of the movie is rendered in computer generated 3D anyway and the humans on green screens were captured in very high resolution digital film, can't they just crank up the resolution to whatever they want? It doesn't really matter if Imax cameras were used or not. It's not like Batman Begins where they filmed in live locations. I'm just making this up. :P
For anyone who is curious (may already be posted):
Barebones 2D version of Avatar is coming out in April. Special Edition comes out in November. But a 3D version won't come out until 2011 because they are still working on 3D on blu-ray.
2D version is good for me. I'm not blowing $3000 on a tv (you'll need a new tv to watch 3D blu-rays, and unless you have a PS3 you'll need a new blu-ray player too, the PS3 will have a firm-ware update). And I am surely not going to wear stupid 3D glasses at home.
