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Here are our impossible dreams for what the most successful filmmaker ever might do when presented with total storytelling freedom.

James Cameron's 3D enviro epic inspires a creep to open a nightclub.

He might make like 50 of them, if the spirit moves him. You have no say.

Piracy reaches across IP lines to bring together many franchises in one t-shirt.

The 3D gimmick is truly separating the wheat from the chaff.

Get together with the natives and run the corporate douchebags off the land! And while you’re at Disney World creating havoc, you can also visit the AVATAR exhibit.

Wow, my fingers have never typed as fast as they did to capture the notes for this panel. But how could they stop when it was James Cameron, George Lucas, and Jeffrey Katzenberg discussing the past, present and future of the movies.

Someone put this on a t-shirt.

A gorgeous Buddhist temple in Thailand also includes paintings of some major elements of nerd culture.

James Cameron says there’s a story crisis in Hollywood. Setting aside all irony, the guy is totally correct. And it’s at least partially the audience’s fault.

Tracking numbers show TRON LEGACY being soft. Some people have been trying to compare the film to AVATAR’s early sluggish buzz, but is there really a comparison to be made. Devin doesn’t think so.

With horror, the first is usually the best when it comes to sequels, but it applies to the current 3D craze as well. Since MY BLOODY VALENTINE debuted in early 2009 (long before the “game-changer” known as AVATAR), we’ve had a handful of horror films in 3D, and surprisingly, many of them were shot that way. SAW 3D, THE FINAL DESTINATION, and RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, like BLOODY, were shot with actual 3D cameras. The only two horror post-converts were MY SOUL TO TAKE and (ironically) PIRANHA 3D. Considering the glut of 3D films clogging the marketplace (over two dozen in 2010 between real and converts), that’s not a bad ratio. But should horror stick to 2D?