Umm, no. There's going to be an Ultimate Edition and there's going to be a 3-D release. These are two separate things. The Ultimate Edition will be sold at general retail and will be 2-D. The 3-D edition will be an exclusive with the purchase of a Panasonic 3-D Blu-ray player. That disc will be usable in other 3-D Blu-ray players, but Panasonic will have exclusive right to distribute it for a limited time.

Ah....well...in that case.

two other words pop into mind: 'Clusterfuck' and 'selfish'

Collectors edition news:

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/08/27/...bound-opening/

16 minute Extended cut including the films original opening that took place on Earth which was just finished exclusively for this edition, as well as 45 minutes of other deleted scenes.

I want 3D vision goddamnit!

I don't know if Cameron is to blame, or if he is he's not alone. Other movies have been exclusive with 3D hardware too. It's as if the movie industry isn't ready yet for a real "launch" for 3D BD, but the hardware makers really want something to sell the players now.

BTW, how many cuts is Avatar going to get? There's the original cut in theaters, now an 8-minute longer extended cut, and then later a further extended cut with 16 minutes extra. Is that all for now or am I missing any?

the reason I heard why the IMAX cut of the extended cut is only 8 minutes is that the running time/actual print length is maxed out at that point. Supposedly another 8 minutes isn't physically possible for the IMAX print release, the Digital projection variants (IMAX-Digital, REAL-D [DLP/LCoS] though wouldn't have had this running time problem.

"Avatar" was not the first, second, third and won't be last in terms of these TV/BD 3D release exclusives.

P.S. Don't feed the Avatar/Cameron-hating troll. He's been warned about this shit many times throughout this thread already.

"In the interview Cameron explains that while that sequence was cut late in the game, it still featured unfinished effects, which Fox spent “a million bucks or whatever” to finish."

Lol, it's all monopoly money to him at this point. Looking forward to the extra scenes... 8 minutes seemed a little underwhelming.

just wait for the extended cut bluray edition with the additional 8 minutes of footage.

first look at the cover artwork: Avatar collector's edition Blu-ray


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well..that looks boring...

I like it. I'm glad they didn't just reuse the original cover with a "Collector's Edition" banner on it.

Great cover art. Simply and pretty classy.

The special features are sure to be bountiful, but I just hope there will be audio commentaries as well. I'd love one with the cast, as well as one with the guys from WETA

blu-ray.com (ahem.. sorry) reports the deluxe edition is going to have some 45 minutes of additional film footage that hit the cutting room floor.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced 3-disc DVD ($34.98) and 3-disc Blu-ray releases of the Avatar: Extended Collector's Edition for November 16th. Each feature the original theatrical release, a special edition re-release, family audio track with all objectionable language removed and a new collector’s extended cut with sixteen more minutes including an exclusive alternate opening Earth scene


Avatar: Collector's Edition - 3-Disc Blu-ray


Disc One

* Original Theatrical Version
* Special Edition Re-Release
* Collector’s Extended Cut
o Over 15 more minutes and exclusive alternate opening


Disc Two

* Capturing Avatar: An in-depth feature length documentary with James Cameron, Jon Landau, cast & crew
* Deleted Scenes: Including over 45 minutes of new never-before-seen deleted scenes
* Production Materials


Disc Three

* Open 'Pandora’s Box' and go deeper into the filmmaker process
* Interactive Scene Deconstruction: Explore the various stages of production through 3 different viewing modes
* Production Shorts: 17 featurettes covering performance capture, Scoring the film, 3D Fusion Camera, Stunts and much more
* Avatar Archives including original scriptment, 300 page screenplay and the extensive Pandorapedia
* BD-Live Portal with additional bonus materials

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/avatar3.html

Awesome artwork. I'm down for this release since I skipped the first.

Interesting idea but isn't it ultimately pointless given the level of violence in this film? Language = bad, violence = good?

This will be mine! I wonder if the PQ will hold up to the original release, or if I should just dump the current disc...

I can't even remember there being any objectionable language in the film.

No commentary? Boo! Cameron does great commentaries - it's a shame he didn't do one here. I would take a commentary over any of the other extras.

I passed on seeing the movie during its initial theatrical run, but my friend convinced me to check it out during the special edition re-release and while the story was predictable and the dialogue left a lot to be desired, I loved the look of the film and did genuinely enjoy watching it. I'll definitely pick this up, despite my initial reservations.

Maybe they're just changing the Na'vi language to English for people who hate subtitles.

You're going to be able to watch the movie in motion capture or template form on the 3rd disc, with running interviews, etc throughtout, so I suppose that is substituting for commentary.

Still, I agree, I would have loved to have a traditional commentary.

i don't know size and all that, but isn't 3 versions of 2.5+ hours on one Blu-ray disc still a lot of content that PQ might be affected? and will they be able to put a lossless DTS track on all 3?

Probably, but it'll all likely be branched into the main feature.