This week FilmNewsBriefs interviews Jason Spingarn-Koff the director of Life 2.0 which recently had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. We discuss creating the film using machinima, filming in a virtual worlds and the future of the internet.

Our intrepid correspondent Mark Milian digs into the issue that has lots of moviegoers scratching their heads -- with the different format options, which version of "Avatar" should they go see?

You might have opened the newspaper to find a two-page spread advertising "Avatar" in its many theater formats and wondered what the heck the difference is. There's the standard non-3-D version (pass!), RealD, Dolby Digital and IMAX. The final three are the leading competitors in the battle to add depth dimension to movie theater screens.

"AVATAR" COUNTDOWN: 9 DAYS

All eyes are on James Cameron with the imminent release of the most expensive movie of all time. "Avatar" may very well be the 55-year-old director's masterwork in an already astounding film career. Yet most people know very little about him.

If Cameron, the man, is known for anything besides his reservedness, it's his penchant for being very critical -- explicitly when necessary -- and doing so in a painfully truthful way.