Directed by James Cameron Produced by James Cameron, Jon Landau Written by James Cameron Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel, David Moore, C. C. H. Pounder, Wes Studi, Laz Alonso Music by James Horner Cinematography Mauro Fiore Editing by James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin Distributed by 20 th Century Fox Release date December 18, 2009 Running time 162 minutes Country United States Rating MPAA PG-13 Budget $237 million
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James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and inventor. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009). In the time between making Titanic and his return to feature films with Avatar, Cameron spent some years creating documentary films, and also co-developing the digital 3 -D Fusion Camera System.
• Budget $237 000 • Box-office in the USA $601 142 000 • Box-office in the world + $1 473 548 945 = $2 0 74 690 945 • Box-office in Russia $101 828 370 • $200 000 • $600 788 188 • + $1 242 413 080 = $1 84 3 201 268 • $5 084 138
James Horner has written music for: • • Apocalypto The Legend of Zorro Troy The Mask of Zorro Titanic Aliens Jumanji British singer Leona Lewis was chosen to sing theme song for the film, called "I See You".
Samuel Henry J. "Sam" Worthington (born 2 August 1976) is an English-born Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Jake Sully in the 2009 film Avatar and Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation. 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo Avatar Terminator Salvation Somersault Clash of the Titans Last Night Debt, The
Zoe Saldana (born June 19, 1978) is an American actress. She had her breakthrough role in the 2002 film Drumline, and later gained prominence for her roles as Anamaria in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Uhura in the 2009 film Star Trek, and Neytiri in James Cameron's Avatar.
Initially James Cameron planned to let out film on screens in 1999. However, considering complexity of special effects which was going to create Cameron, the budget of film should make about $400 million. The project has laid down on a shelf where was about 10 years. Cameron has thought up a plot of film and has written the first version of the script in 1995. Film consists of 40 % alive shooting and of % realistic computer graphics.
Cameron has developed special technology which allowed to see during shootings on the screen of monitors of computer characters together with alive actors.
In Cameron's original script the foliage of plants was same dark blue as leather Na’Vi, but finally, he decided to use green color for greater realness.
Avatars have fingers, while Pandora’s inhabitants have only four.
The Golden Globe, 2010 Winner (2): • The best film (drama) • The best director (James Cameron) Nomination (2): • The best song — «I Will See You» • The best soundtrack Oscar, 2010 Nomination (9): • The best film • The best director (James Cameron) • The best operator’s work • The best decorations • The best sound • The best editing of sound • The best visual effects • The best soundtrack
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