Avatar (2009 movie)
2009 film by James Cameron / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(This article is about the James Cameron movie. For Nickelodeon’s Avatar, see Avatar: The Last Airbender.)
Avatar | |
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Directed by | James Cameron |
Written by | James Cameron |
Produced by | James Cameron Jon Landau |
Starring | Sam Worthington Zoe Saldana Stephen Lang Michelle Rodriguez Sigourney Weaver Giovanni Ribisi Joel David Moore C. C. H. Pounder Wes Studi Laz Alonso |
Cinematography | Mauro Fiore |
Edited by | James Cameron John Refoua Stephen E. Rivkin |
Music by | James Horner |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release dates | December 10, 2009 (2009-12-10) (London premiere) December 18, 2009 (2009-12-18) (United States) |
Running time | 161 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $237 million[2] |
Box office | $2.923 billion[3][4] |
Avatar is a 2009 American science fiction adventure movie. The two main characters are played by Sam Worthington (Jake) and Zoe Saldana (Neytiri). Avatar was directed by James Cameron.
In 1994, Cameron wrote an 80-page story about Pandora. He did not start to develop the movie until 12 years later, in early 2006. He did this because the level of technology at the time was not good enough. The cost of the movie was high. It cost $280–310 million to make it and $150 million for marketing. The movie was released in traditional 2-D and 3-D. Only three weeks after it was released (December 18, 2009 in the United States), Avatar has earned more money worldwide than any movie other than Cameron's previous movie, Titanic. Due to the movie's success, Cameron signed with 20th Century Fox to direct four sequels. The first sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, was released on December 16, 2022. Avatar 3 is set to be released in 2024, with further sequels scheduled for release in 2026 and 2028.
It has been nominated for nine Academy Awards (winning three) and eight BAFTA awards (winning two).