Avatar (2009 film) Avatar (2009 film) Avatar, marketed as James Cameron's Avatar, is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film's
Avatar (2009 film) on "Avatar"s gross; it estimated, on , 2010, that "Avatar" had sold approximately tickets in North American theatres, more than any other film since 1999's "". On a worldwide basis, when "Avatar"s gross stood at $2 billion just 35 days into its run, "The Daily Telegraph" estimated its gross was surpassed by only "Gone with the Wind" ($3.0 billion), "Titanic" ($2.9 billion) and "Star Wars" ($2.2 billion) after adjusting for inflation to 2010 prices, with "Avatar" ultimately winding up with $2.8 billion by the end of its run in 2010. Reuters even placed it ahead of "Titanic" after adjusting the