The Last Airbender

The Last Airbender (2010)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Writer (WGA): M. Night Shyamalan (written by)

Release Date: 23 July 2010 (India)

Genre: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy

Plot: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations. This year of celebrity moive The Last Airbender

Plot Keywords: Avatar | Fire | Magic | Chase | Children

Cast

Jackson Rathbone ... Sokka

Nicola Peltz ... Katara

Dev Patel ... Zuko

Cliff Curtis ... Firelord Ozai

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Celebrity Poker: Sam Worthington

Now here's someone who can really get the respect of both the poker and Hollywood celebrity worlds in an instant! Thanks to the hit movies “Terminator: Salvation”, and recently Osacars nominated movie “Avatar” from the director of James Cameron. Sam Worthington is becoming the hardest working man in the Hollywood.

In the interview of Esquire Magizine, Sam Worthington talks agbout his career, his other project and playing poker, here's some of the snippets:

And yet, it's not just about sizing up the competition, finding niches to exploit. 33-year-old celebrity poker player Sam Worthington who makes these lists and charts uses them as prods. ("I walked up to [Danish actor] Mads Mikkelsen and said, “I've seen every single movie you've done,” and he said,

“That's insane, but why?' And I said, “Cause now I know where you come from, I know what work you're good at, and I know damn well you're not doing that about me.” So if it's poker, I've got the upper hand.") They are a form of power. No other actors do this. Most actors are inherently lazy. (He knows, because he was once one of them.)

About Sam Wothington: Sam Worthington began his career in acting by supporting his girlfriend in her audition into a drama school. Sam Worthington was accepted into the school, but his girlfriend was rejected, thus ending their relationship. Though it’s now hard to imagine him as anything other than a successful actor, Sam Worthington didn’t embrace the idea of pursuing a career in the arts until he was well into his 20s. Having dropped out of school at 17, Sam Worthington had been biding his time working a series of odd jobs -- though his path changed dramatically after he agreed to accompany a girlfriend to her audition for Sydney’s National Institute of Dramatic Art.

After learning the ins and outs of the acting craft during his stint at NIDA, Sam Worthington emerged hungry for work and subsequently began auditioning for roles with gusto. He spent the first few months of his fledgling career appearing in local stage productions, with his onscreen debut coming in 2000 with a small part in an episode of JAG. For the next several years, Sam Worthington appeared in a variety of television shows and movies, including the 2002with Bruce Willis on Hart’s War and the 2002 Toni Colltte and John Goodman comedy Dirty Deeds.

In 2004, Sam Worthington received considerable praise for his turn in the unique and greatly acclaimed Australian drama “Somersault”, playing Joe, a sexually confused young man who becomes entangled with a teenage girl (Abbie Cornish). Written and directed by Cate Shortland, “Somersault” took 7 years to make, and naturally Shortland wanted to cast the perfect actor in the role of Joe. The film did amazingly well, making a clean sweep of the Australian Film Institute awards in 2004 to win in all 13 film categories – the first time this has ever occurred in the award’s history. It beat the previous record of eight AFI awards shared by Lantana (2001) and Newsfront (1978). Sam won the AFI for best male actor.

In 2005, he returned to American movies with a supporting role in “The Great Raid”, another WWII drama, this time about the liberation of American POWs from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in the Philippines. In 2006 proved to be a particularly lucrative year for Sam, as the rising star took on the title role in a modern retelling of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and landed a starring role opposite Radha Mitchell and Michael Vartan in the 2007 horror flick “Rogue”, a suspenseful, ‘Jaws’-style thriller about a boat tour’s gruesome encounter with a king-sized crocodile. Sam Worthington played Mitchell’s rakish boyfriend, whose rescue attempts lead to a gruesome end.

His reputation as one of Hollywood’s most promising up-and-coming performers brought him to the attention of several high-profile directors, though it was James Cameron who ultimately cast Sam in his biggest production to date, and his first movie in over a decade, the science fiction epic “Avatar” in 2009.

Avatar is an action drama that blends groundbreaking CGI techniques with 3D technology in its storyline about humans in conflict with the inhabitants of a newly colonized world. Sam’s character, a paraplegic ex-Marine, undergoes an experiment to become an “avatar,” an alternate version of himself, designed to exist more cohesively in the new environment.

The massive project required the actor to split his time between location shoots in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The role in ‘Avatar’ afforded Sam the opportunity to share the screen with such familiar faces as Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez and Zoe Saldana.

Director James Cameron was so impressed with Sam Worthington's work that he suggested him to director McG for a role in “Terminator Salvation”, the fourth in the long-running and successful futuristic action franchise, and he soon found himself working side-by-side with Christian Bale and Bryce Dallas Howard.

Sam Worthington's sky-rocketing profile continued to reach new heights as 2009 progressed, with starring roles opposite Keira Knightley and Eva Mendes in the infidelity drama “Last Night” and “The Debt” both in 2009, about Israeli agents hunting Nazis. Just in the same year, He got also his first Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Movie Fresh Face Male in “Terminator Salvation”, and he won the “GQ Man of the Year” award in Australia over Eric Bana and Russell Crowe.

Sam Worthington fantasy efforts were cheered by his casting as Perseus, hero of Greek mythology, in a big-budget remake of the Ray Harryhausen spectacular, “Clash Of The Titans” this year.

The Celebrity Winners Of 82 Oscars Award

With Oscars buzz in full swing and the award show right around the corner on March 7^th tinsel town and the entire country cant wait for the festivities! Speculation amongst fans across the world is also reaching a fever pitch regarding which actors, actresses, projects, and others will take home a coveted Oscars. This being the case, the largest most successful sports betting sites and online casino providers on the web posted odds on all things Oscars Award.

On the sports betting sites and online casino betting odds of the Oscar Awards are in the ladies in the Best Actress category hoping to take home a little gold man include Sandra Bullock at 10 to 17 odds, Carey Mulligan at 8 to 1 odds, Helen Mirren at 35 to 1 odds, Gabourey Sidibe at 12 to 1 odds, and Meryl Streep at 8 to 5 odds.

The Best Actor nominees include, Jeff Bridges at 2 to 15 odds, George Clooney at 9 to 2 odds, Colin Faith at 15 to 1 odds, Morgan Freeman at 20 to 1 odds, and Jeremy Renner at 20 to 1 odds.

Beating back the juggernaut of Avatar and rising to the top of a field of ten Best Picture nominees, the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker pulled out six Oscar wins at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow, who became the first woman ever to earn that award. In the acting categories, Sandra Bullock beat out Meryl Streep to win the Best Actress Award for her turn as a fierce Southern mom in The Blind Side; Jeff Bridges earned the Best Actor Award for playing a past-his-prime country singer in Crazy Heart; Mo’Nique won the Best Supporting Actress for playing an abusive mother in Precious; and Christoph Waltz won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his portrayal of a coldblooded yet charming Nazi in Inglourious Basterds.

To excite you more, here are hthe list of this year's 82^nd Oscars Award 2010:

BEST PICTURE

Avatar

The Blind Side

District 9

An Education

Inglorious Basterds

The Hurt Locker

Precious

A Serious Man

Up

Up In The Air

WINNER: The Hurt Locker

BEST DIRECTOR

James Cameron In Avatar

Kathryn Bigelow In The Hurt Locker

Lee Daniels In Precious

Jason Reitman In Up In The Air

Quentin Tarantino In Inglorious Bastererds

WINNER: Kathryn Bigelow of The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS

Sandra Bullock In The Blind Side

Helen Mirren In The Last Station

Carey Mulligan In An Education

Gabourey Sidibe In Precious

Maeryl Streep In Julie And Julia

WINNER: Sandra Bullock of The Blind Side

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges In Crazy Heart

George Clooney In Up In The Air

Colin Firth In A Smingle Man

Jeremy Renner In The Hurt Locker

WINNER: Jeff Bridges of Crazy Heart

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mo'Nique In Precious

Penelope Cruz In Nine

Vera Fermiga In Up In The Air

Anna Kendrick In Up In The Air

WINNER: Mo'Nique Of Precious

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christoph Waltz In Inglorious Basterds

Matt Damon In Invictus

Woodiy Harrelson In The Messaenger

Christopher Plummer In The Last Station

Stanley Tucci In The Lovely Bones

WINNER: Christoph Waltz Of Inglorious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCREEN PLAY

Mark Boal In The Hurt Locker

Allesandro Cannon And Oren Moverman In The Messenger

Joel And Ethan Coen In A Serious Man

Pete Docter, Bob Peterson And Tom McCarthy In UP

Quentin Tarantiono In Inglorious Basterds

WINNER: Mark Boal Of The Hurt Locker

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Geofrrey Fletcher In Precious

Nick Hornby In An Education

Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell In Distric 9

Jason Reitman And Sheldon Turner In up In The Air

Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ian ucci And Tony Roche In In The Loop

WINNER: Geofrrey Fletcher Of Precious

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER: El Secreto do Sus Ojos (Argentina)
Un Prophete (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)
Ajami (Israel)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)

Best Animated Film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
WINNER: Up

Best Documentary
Burma VJ
WINNER: The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Best Editing
Avatar
District 9
WINNER: The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Best Visual Effects
WINNER: Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Best Score
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
WINNER: Up

Best Cinematography
WINNER: Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Best Sound Mixing
Avatar
WINNER: The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Sound Editing
Avatar
WINNER: The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Best Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
WINNER: The Young Victoria

Best Art Direction
WINNER: Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Best Makeup
Il Divo
WINNER: Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Best Live-Action Short
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
WINNER: The New Tenants

Best Documentary Short

China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
WINNER: Music by Prudence
Rabbit à la Berlin

Best Animated Short

French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
WINNER: Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Song

“Almost There,” The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman
“Down in New Orleans,” The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman
“Loin de Paname,” Paris 36, Reinhardt Wagner & Frank Thomas
“Take It All,” Nine, Maury Yeston
WINNER: “The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart, T-Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham