Avatar Summer Release

Is Avatar coming back, even bigger and better? And more expensive?

Rumor has it the biggest movie ever is indeed about to get bigger, as Fox considers a re-release in the summer, that will possibly have extra footage.

There is no word yet on what sort of extras will be added in.

The studio feels there is more money to be made in Imax and other 3D theaters, since Avatar was pushed out last week by Alice in Wonderland, but was still doing well in many theaters.

Imax CEO Richard Gelfond said during an investor conference that directir James Cameron has 40 minutes of additional material that didn't make the original cut.

Avatar Summer Release
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Get ready for "Avatar"-plus.

James Cameron and Fox are in discussions about rereleasing "Avatar," primarily in 3D theaters, in late summer -- and, tantalizingly, with additional scenes that had been left on the cutting-room floor in the rush to ready the epic for its December 18 release. The impetus for a rerelease is the feeling that, even though "Avatar" is the highest-grossing movie of all time, producers could have raked in even more money had they been able to hold on to the digital and Imax 3D screens that were lost when Disney opened "Alice in Wonderland" in 3D on March 5...

Avatar Summer Release