Some things just aren't going to do well whatever box office environment they are in. It seems to me that Cohen's popularity is on the decline and has been since Borat.If the public has interest in a film at the moment it's doing great numbers. Dictator and DS just aren't it.
1. The Dark Knight Rises2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey3. Iron Man 34. Star Trek 25. Skyfall6. Prometheus7. The Amazing Spider-Man 8. The Bourne Legacy9. Brave10. Django Unchained
Avatar was in post production from March 2008. That's a year and nine months from that point until release in Dec 2009. Post for these films will take longer than most.
They have spent the last year and a half working on "software and pipeline development".They have been setting up a new VFX pipeline in NZ and building stages from scratch. Cameron is writing and they aren't even up to the design stage yet. Doesn't sound very close to me.
Cameron and Landau are saying the date was never set in stone. Landau said recently that the 2014 date would be "hard to make".That's code for "not happening".