My prediction: Avatar will be the film that finally undoes the reportedly wicked, egomaniacal, James Cameron, who has yet to make a singe, goddamn, good picture. (Hey, I started hating the guy after Cameron was rumored to be calling Kate Winslet, Kate Weighs-a-Lot.)

My Second Life avatar, Oscar Finsbury, will eat his three-cornered hat, if I am wrong:

Executives at Fox, the company which has put up the majority of the money, are “very scared, nay terrified, that it is all going to go wrong,” one movie insider told me.The question is, has Hollywood’s most monstrous genius finally gone mad?

via Has James Cameron, Hollywood’s scariest man, blown £200 million on the biggest movie flop ever? | Mail Online.

Students of film history will recall the Heaven’s Gate debacle, in which director Michael Cimino demolished United Artists with his own, out-of-control film project.