The photo-real digital film is 20% live-action with humans shot on location and 80% live-action mixed with CG elements. "It's a CG film with live-action in it,"...says VFX demigod Rob Legato in THIS VARIETY ARTICLE. The piece goes on to discuss the film's budget (now abetween $250-300 million) and running time, as well as the machinations surrounding delays in its release. Also mentioned are how much money Fox threw at AVATAR's pre-production tech development. It's an interesting piece, which also talks a bit about Fincher's efforts to trim BENJAMIN BUTTON's running time, and Spike Jonze's tribulations with WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.