Citing an "unexpected breakthrough" in auteurial decision-making technology that finally allowed director James Cameron to end nearly a decade of a crippling reluctance to name his big-screen follow-up to all-time box office record holder Titanic, Fox this afternoon announced that Cameron had chosen live-action/motion capture animation hybrid Avatar as his next project, now slated for release in the summer of 2009. "But," jointly cautioned Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman in a press release, "we're just happy that he made up his fucking mind and picked out a movie. Do you have any idea how long we've been waiting around for him to stop dicking around with Entourage cameos and IMAX nonsense about bioluminscent shrimp and get back to making us some money? If he delivers Avatar sometime before 2012, all will be forgiven."

• Director Cameron To Shoot Again [LAT]
• Cameron gets 'Avatar' going [Variety]
• Cameron to follow 'Titanic' with 3D 'Avatar' [THR]

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