First official information about Avatar Collector’s Edition BD/DVD

[Dreaming Of Pandora]

What's the Cabinet edition? Other than my confusion regarding that. I'm super excited about this.

[Human No More]

No real information... I guess it comes in a cabinet of some sort

[Dreaming Of Pandora]

That would be sweet! An avatar shrine delivered to your home. Awesome.

[Human No More]

Indeed... I will HAVE to get the money for that somehow

[Raptor]

Would the hours of exclusive footage be limited to the cabinet edition? That's the main thing i'm worried about.

[Tymian]

Originally Posted by Dreaming Of Pandora

That would be sweet! An avatar shrine delivered to your home. Awesome.

i hope it will be Neytiri shrine

[Stanley_9875]

I'm actually wanting to go out and get a little hang-up case for my Avatar Blue-Ray DVD and soundtrack, and I found one at Michaels I want to get

[ISV Venture Star]

James Cameron on 'Avatar' re-release, BP oil spill -- and much more | OregonLive.com

Earth scenes are in!

A: Well, if you buy the box set in November, you can sit down, and in a continuous screening of the film, watch it with the Earth opening.

Q: Oh, really.

A: Yeah. It works very well. It just takes a long time to get the movie started. You have to be sort of predisposed to like the movie like a fan, you know what I mean? And then you can sit and you can have a great ride -- a different telling of "Avatar." Not inconsistent -- it's just the stuff that happened off-camera.

We call it "the Earth opening." It's about 4 1/2 minutes of stuff. And it was in for the longest time. It was very late in the day that we took it out. I walked in one day and said to my two editors, "Guys, I want each of you to cut a new version of the start of the film, Reel 1, that doesn't have any Earth in it at all." And they looked at me like I was out of my mind. And I said, "No -- it's gonna work." They had to figure out the details. I said, "Just grab a couple of things to use as flashbacks, and start it in space when Jake opens his eyes."

Q: So wait – does the re-release start on Earth?

A: No. The re-release opening Friday starts the same way. But in November, you can buy a box set with all the bells and whistles. It's got like 45 minutes of unfinished deleted scenes that exist in a supplement where you can just play the scenes individually.

But it's all a big negotiation with the studios; how much money do they want to spend on these sort of revisionist versions of the movie? Because on the whole Earth opening, the visual effects weren't done, and we had to go back and spend a million bucks or whatever to get those shots done. So there's a price-tag dangling from anything that gets re-inserted. It's not like "Apocalypse Now," where they blow up a Vietnamese village and the footage is done – there are no visual effects after the fact. We've got to go back, and it's our time and our energy and the studio's money to re-create this stuff.

But (in November) you'll be able to watch a 16-minute-longer version of the film that's a nice, flowing, cohesive version of the movie. If you just want to wallow in "Avatar" for three hours, I can get that for you.

[Woodsprite]

I'm in love.

With this November edition.

[Stanley_9875]

I must have cabinet edition!

I'll just save and not tell my parents how much I spent is all

Because if I settle for less, I'll look back on it in the future and regret it badly

[Dreaming Of Pandora]

DO WANT!!!

I dont care if I'm broke after it I'm getting the Cabinet Edition.

[Davy Jones]

it will consist of three BDs, with the extended version of James Cameron's sci-fi epic, and will include "hours of never-before-seen, exclusive bonus content."

"hours of never-before-seen, exclusive bonus content."

"hours of never-before-seen, exclusive bonus content."

Something that requires not just one, but three blu-ray discs... that's gotta be a huge amount of data!

[Human No More]

Avatar Collector's Edition Blu-ray with 45 Minutes of Deleted Material

During an interview with MTV, James Cameron dropped some more bits of information regarding the still-unannounced Collector's Edition Blu-ray release of Avatar. The Canadian-born filmmaker revealed that the release will include 45 minutes of deleted, unfinished footage - and that's not counting the 16 extra minutes of the Blu-ray extended cut (which will include an opening scene set on Earth).

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[Stanley_9875]

Originally Posted by Xynth

Something that requires not just one, but three blu-ray discs... that's gotta be a huge amount of data!

Haha I read the hours part a couple times too. My heart stopped

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Xynth

Something that requires not just one, but three blu-ray discs... that's gotta be a huge amount of data!

50GB each.

I'm guessing... Avatar, Avatar Special Edition, and extras