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Josh Brolin explains ongoing feud with James Cameron

Josh Brolin became embroiled in a feud with James Cameron after rejecting the chance to star in ‘Avatar’.

The 49-year-old actor declined the opportunity to appear in the Cameron-directed sci-fi film, prompting the duo to fall out and for the acclaimed movie-maker to start bad-mouthing Josh around Hollywood.

He shared: "If I don’t want to do ‘Avatar’, I’m not going to do ‘Avatar’."

But rather than accept Josh’s decision with grace, the Academy Award-winning director apparently took offence to the rejection.

And according to Josh, Cameron started to insult the actor to other people within the movie business.

Speaking to Esquire magazine, Josh said: "James Cameron’s f***ing calling me this name and that name. Whatever.

"If James Cameron came to me and said, ‘Hey, man, why’d you say that?’ I’d go, ‘Because it happened.’"

Despite rejecting the chance to appearing in ‘Avatar’, Josh insisted he’s loving life at the moment.

The actor is currently filming the much-anticipated ‘Deadpool 2’ in Vancouver, Canada, alongside Ryan Reynolds and revealed he’s having a great deal of fun.

Josh explained: "I’m having more fun and I’m acting more than I ever have in my life.

"In the morning, it’s like I’ve taken half a cup of coffee and half a cup of liquid LSD and I’m tripping all day. And then there’s no consequence and I actually get paid for it."

Josh has been cast in the role of Cable, the movie’s antagonist, and Ryan has promised fans they won’t be disappointed by the character.

Speaking recently, Ryan shared: "I think it’s going to be very interesting. I’ve spent this last week on the business end of many Josh Brolin punches. Both verbal and physical and literal and it’s going to be pretty fantastic.

"He’s going to be epic. He’s going to be an epic Cable."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger was ‘too creepy’ for Hollywood

Arnold Schwarzenegger was told his accent was "too creepy" for Hollywood.

The 69-year-old actor shot to fame in ‘Hercules in New York’ because of his bodybuilder physique but his voice was dubbed in post-production, and the former Governor of California was warned he could never be a "leading man" because of his Austrian dialect and bulky frame.

Speaking to the i newspaper, he said: "In Hollywood, they said I would never become a leading man.

"They used to say ‘your body is too big’. This is the 1970s and people like Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino and Woody Allen, they are sex symbols. I said ‘Oh Jesus’.

"Then they said ‘Plus your accent gives me the creeps. We can use you maybe to play a Nazi or something like that’."

Since then, Arnold has become one of Hollywood’s favoured actors and has starred in a number of successful box office hits.

And the screen icon is grateful for the support of directors such as ‘Conan the Barbarian’ filmmaker John Milus and his ‘Terminator’ helmsman James Cameron, who praised him for the attributes he was previously dismissed over and helped make him be viewed as "hip".

He added: "John Milius said in the press conference: ‘If we didn’t have Schwarzenegger, we would have to build one.’ In that moment my body became a plus.

"After that I did ‘Terminator’ and James Cameron at a press conference said ‘what really makes this movie work is Arnie talks like machine’.

"I don’t know if it was meant as a compliment.

"All of sudden it became acceptable, and then it changed from acceptable to hip, then it ended up that I had the most-quoted lines in movies because I said things different and sometimes wrong."

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Zoe Saldana lets sons be free

Zoe Saldana lets her sons run free around her house.

The ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ star is a mum to infant son Zen and two-year-old twins Cy and Bowie with her husband Marco Perego and whilst she lets her kids roam where they want in her house, she admits she tries to avoid playdates because she doesn’t want other parents to get angry at them for being so loud.

She said: "Our kids are free. We’re rambunctious. We’re a loud family, and we don’t stop from 5am to 9pm.

"And literally, we just don’t have any play dates. You can always come to our house, our doors are open.

"But we don’t ever want them to be exposed to negligence or to someone getting angry with them for just being boys."

Zoe lost her father when she was quite young and her sons have made her rethink how she views boys and men.

She added to People magazine: "I lost my dad very early on and even though I had a lot of male mentors in my life, either by family or being friends or just educators that inspired me, I still went through my aggressive stage in my 20s of forcefully being a feminist.

"You know, I’m a feminist because I have to fight men and everything and it’s not until the universe with its way of being ironic, blessed me with raising men that I realised I am so humbled. I couldn’t be more in awe of who they are their natures as boys. We put so much pressure on them.

"Through our nurture we tamper so much. So I’ve been leaning in on the books and talking to parents of boys, getting any advice from fathers and mothers that we can grab. My husband and I are sponges because we are determined to raise happy, stress-free men."

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Sigourney Weaver to receive 2016 Donostia Award

Sigourney Weaver will receive the 2016 Donostia Award at the 64th San Sebastian Festival.

The 66-year-old actress – who has recently been seen and heard in a couple of high-profile cameos in ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Finding Dory’ – will accept the prestigious prize for her career achievements when the event takes place between September 18 and September 26 at the Basque resort city.

A statement released read: "The festival’s most important honorary award acknowledges the career of the North American actress whose name has presided over some of the biggest productions in the last few decades, under the direction of movie makers such as Sir Ridley Scott, Peter Weir, James Cameron, Mike Nichols, Roman Polanski, Ang Lee and David Fincher."

Sigourney’s most famous role has been as heroine Ellen Ripley in the ‘Alien’ franchise – a part she first played in Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic and is reprising for a fifth time in Neill Blomkamp’s take on the killer Xenomorph extra-terrestrial species.

The festival will also be showing an out-of-competition screening of Sigourney’s latest movie ‘A Monster Calls’ and she will receive the honor at the showing.

‘A Monster Calls’ is due for release on October 21 this year, and the Spanish/British fantasy drama film directed by J. A. Bayona is based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Patrick Ness.

Sigourney stars in the film as the grandmother of a little boy, Conor, who encounters a monster, played by Liam Neeson, 64, who is made of leaves and sticks in a human shape that tells him stories.

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Brian Blessed to travel to deepest point of earth

Brian Blessed wants to be the first Briton to travel to the deepest point of the earth.
The 79-year-old actor is to celebrate turning 80 in October by doing a record-breaking descent called Challenger Deep, which will see him face pressures of 1,000 times greater than on earth, a feat completed successfully by Hollywood director James Cameron in 2012.
Speaking in this month’s CALIBRE Quarterly magazine, he revealed: "I want to go to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in a bathysphere – all the way 37,000ft down!"
The ‘Flash Gordon’ star is obsessed with space and is a strong believer that humans originate from stardust particles.
Of his passion for the outer world, he said: "My biggest love in life is space. I’ve always been mesmerised by space and I firmly believe that we are the children of stardust, and we’re yearning for the stars."
Meanwhile, Brian also has going to the moon on his bucket list.
He added: "I’m determined to go to the moon and I’m very keen that we get moving in space. I think we have this wonderful race memory for exploration – as old as the universe, and we’re just scratching at the surface of it. We don’t just belong here on this planet. The earth has got to have a rest!"

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Zoe Saldana finally acknowledges pregnancy

Zoe Saldana avoided doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge because of her pregnancy.

The ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ beauty, who is rumored to be expecting twins, acknowledged for the first time she is set to become a mother before nominating her husband, Marco Perego, to take her place and complete the task by having freezing water poured over his head to raise awareness for the nerve cells disease.

Turning to the side and rubbing her growing baby bump, the 36-year-old actress, who was nominated by director James Gunn, said in a video of the event: ”I am accepting James Gunn’s challenge to take on the ice bucket challenge.

”Obviously, I can’t do it myself so I nominate my husband to take on the challenge and get rinsed with a nice bucket of ice water.”

After pouring ice cubes and water over artist Marco’s head, the actress nominated four people, including James Cameron and Salma Hayek, to take on the challenge next.

Zoe has been tight-lipped about her pregnancy until now and a source previously said: ”She will only announce the news when she’s ready.”

Another insider said that ‘Avatar’ star, who secretly married Marco in London last year, ”has always wanted a big family.”

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James Cameron to film three Avatar sequels at same time

James Cameron is to film three ‘Avatar’ sequels at the same time.

The 57-year-old director looks set to helm the hat-trick of movies after Sigourney Weaver, who is due to reprise her role as Dr. Grace Augustine for the follow up motion pictures to the 2009 3-D sci-fi film – which tells the tale of humans exploiting the natural resources of the planet Pandora – confirmed the plans are in her schedule.

In an interview with Showbiz 411, the 62-year-old actress admits she has no idea how James is going to helm all three movies at once, nor how long it will take before adding: "I just show up."

Sigourney’s comments come after James – who has directed ‘Titanic’, ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Aliens’ – previously admitted he only plans to make ‘Avatar’ films for the rest of his career.

He explained: "I’m in the ‘Avatar’ business. Period. That’s it. I’m making ‘Avatar 2’, ‘Avatar 3’, maybe ‘Avatar 4’, and I’m not going to produce other people’s movies for them.

"I’m not interested in taking scripts…. I think within the ‘Avatar’ landscape I can say everything I need to say that I think needs to be said, in terms of the state of the world and what I think we need to be doing about it. And doing it in an entertaining way."
 

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Avatar theme park coming to Florida

While the 3D experience may have been immersive, fans will soon have the opportunity to actually visit Avatar‘s fictional world of Pandora, with the opening of Avatar-themed interactive exhibits at Walt Disney theme parks, reports Coming Soon.

The first exhibit will open at Disney World’s Animal Kingdom Park in Florida, with construction scheduled to begin in 2013. Other Disney parks will soon follow.

"’Avatar’ created a world which audiences can discover again and again and now, through this incredible partnership with Disney, we’ll be able to bring Pandora to life like never before," said writer-director James Cameron, who will be heavily involved in the creation of the exhibits.

"With two new ‘Avatar’ films currently in development, we’ll have even more locations, characters and stories to explore. I’m chomping at the bit to start work with Disney’s legendary ‘Imagineers’ to bring our ‘Avatar’ universe to life. Our goal is to go beyond current boundaries of technical innovation and experiential storytelling, and give park goers the chance to see, hear, and touch the world of ‘Avatar’ with an unprecedented sense of reality."

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Avatar theme park coming to Florida

While the 3D experience may have been immersive, fans will soon have the opportunity to actually visit Avatar‘s fictional world of Pandora, with the opening of Avatar-themed interactive exhibits at Walt Disney theme parks, reports Coming Soon.

The first exhibit will open at Disney World’s Animal Kingdom Park in Florida, with construction scheduled to begin in 2013. Other Disney parks will soon follow.

"’Avatar’ created a world which audiences can discover again and again and now, through this incredible partnership with Disney, we’ll be able to bring Pandora to life like never before," said writer-director James Cameron, who will be heavily involved in the creation of the exhibits.

"With two new ‘Avatar’ films currently in development, we’ll have even more locations, characters and stories to explore. I’m chomping at the bit to start work with Disney’s legendary ‘Imagineers’ to bring our ‘Avatar’ universe to life. Our goal is to go beyond current boundaries of technical innovation and experiential storytelling, and give park goers the chance to see, hear, and touch the world of ‘Avatar’ with an unprecedented sense of reality."

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Sam Worthington and James Cameron reteam?

After the success of Avatar, actor Sam Worthington and director James Cameron are in talks for an upcoming sci-fi action film entitled Myth, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

20th Century Fox is currently negotiating with screenwriter Will Staples (Apaches, World’s Most Wanted) to purchase the project.

Few details have been released, other than the film is supposed to be a big sci-fi flick with lots of action. Titanic director James Cameron is interested in signing on as executive producer, while Worthington and Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Transformers producer, are both looking to produce the film.

No formal agreements have been signed yet as the project is still in the early stages of development, so everything could change. Cameron is currently in preproduction on Avatar 2 and 3, and Worthington and Zoe Seldana have signed on to reprise their roles for future sequels.

In the meantime, Worthington has been busy filming the sequel Wrath of the Titans due out March 30, 2012. On July 16, he will star in The Fields with Chloe Moretz, and on August 31, he co-stars with Helen Mirren in the drama-thriller The Debt.