James Cameron’s Lightstorm, Projector-Maker Christie Renew Pact for ‘Avatar’ Sequels
With an eye toward advancing cinema and providing the best possible presentation of the four planned Avatar sequels, James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment has renewed a five-year tech agreement with projector maker Christie.
As part of the pact, Christie will equip Lightstorm with the first of a new RGB laser projection series now in development — one that Christie expects will be more efficient than current systems.
Cameron has long said he wants to make his sequels to 2009's Avatar — which grossed $2.7 billion at the global box office — in 3D and incorporate the use of high frame rates. Accepting an award from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers last fall, he said of making the sequels: "I'm going to push. Not only for better tools, workflow, high dynamic range and high frame rates — the things we are working toward. I'm still very bullish on 3D, but we need brighter projection, and ultimately I think it can happen — with no glasses. We'll get there."
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