FILM/ A RAVE FOR "AVATAR": Variety has released the 1st review of the highly anticipated film, "Avatar," and its a rave. The film is written, produced and directed by James Cameron, his first since "Titanic". Variety said: "The King of the World sets his sights on creating another world entirely in "Avatar," and it's very much a place worth visiting. The most expensive and technically ambitious film ever made, James Cameron's long-gestating epic pitting Earthly despoilers against a forest-dwelling alien race delivers unique spectacle, breathtaking sights, narrative excitement and an overarching anti-imperialist, back-to-nature theme that will play very well around the world, and yet is rather ironic coming from such a technology-driven picture. Twelve years after "Titanic," which still stands as the all-time B.O. champ, Cameron delivers again with a film of universal appeal that just about everyone who ever goes to the movies will need to see". The film runs 163 minutes and is rated PG13.
Variety has released the 1st review of the upcoming release, "It's Complicated". The film stars Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. Variety said: "Meryl Streep continues the foodie phase of her career in "It's Complicated," a cloying, self-satisfied, occasionally funny farce about an extramarital affair between formerly married fiftysomethings. Writer-director Nancy Meyers' latest survey of the travails of the rich and pampered boasts a clever central premise and an enjoyably self-effacing comic turn by Alec Baldwin. But Streep, playing the best cook to hit Santa Barbara since Julia Child died there, laughs a lot more than the audience will, which is not a good thing. Universal should ring up solid holiday biz from a glossy confection that will find its most responsive audience among women of a certain age on girls' nights out". The film runs 118 minutes and is rated PG13.
FILM/ PORTMAN TAKES ON ZOMBIES: Natalie Portman will star in and produce “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” a film that is based on the bestselling book written by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen. Lionsgate will finance and distribute. Though Austen’s name is on the book, Grahame-Smith took the liberty of adding bloodthirsty flesh-eating zombies to the mix. Described as an expanded version of the Austen classic, the book tells the timeless story of a woman’s quest for love and independence amid the outbreak of a deadly virus that turns the undead into vicious killers. Portman will play feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet, who is distracted from her quest to eradicate the zombie menace by the arrival of the arrogant Mr. Darcy.
TV/ GENE BARRY DIES AT 90: Gene Barry, who played the well-dressed man of action in the television series "Bat Masterson," "Burke's Law" and "The Name of the Game," died Wednesday in Woodland Hills, California He was 90. Barry essentially played the same character in all three series: a fashionably dressed hero who bested the bad guys with either cunning or force. Before his TV roles, he appeared in the sci fi classic "War of the Worlds" and on popular sitcom "Our Miss Brooks." After "The Name of the Game," he went on to star in British series "The Adventurer" and appear in the miniseries "Aspen," and on series such as "Fantasy Island" and "The Love Boat." He was primarily working in comercials when he landed the role on Broadway role of Georges, the gay night club owner in Jerry Herman's hit musical "La Cage aux Folles," for which he got a Tony nomination for best actor in 1984. Born Eugene Klass in New York, his final screen role was in Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds." He is survived by his children and grandchildren.
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