Tell about some facts about movie Avatar ?

8. Avatar became the first movie to gross more than $2 billion and it became the best selling movie of 2010 in the United States.

9. Avatar was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.

10. Director James Cameron, known for being tough on set, allegedly kept a nail-gun on set that he would use to nail cellphones, that would ring, to a wall above the exit sign.

The film at its core is about aliens (which in this case are humans), who try to take advantage of a peaceful population of inhabitants on a foreign planet – who to us look like aliens, but from the movie’s angle are not.

11. James Cameron was convinced that CGI effects had progressed enough to make Avatar when he saw Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

To prepare his cast for their jungle-based roles, Cameron took them to Hawaii, where they spent several days trekking through the forestry as tribes. This was done because there would not be any actual jungle sets during the shooting, since everything is computer-generated.

12. At the time of auditioning, Sam Worthington was living in his car.

James Cameron, known for being tough on set, allegedly kept a nail-gun on set that he would use to nail cell phones, that had the misfortune of ringing, to a wall above the exit sign.

In the final battle scene, Neytiri’s war paint includes a white handprint on her chest. The print has five fingers, meaning that it’s Jake’s since the Na’vi only have four digits.

13. The Na’vi language was created entirely from scratch by linguist Dr. Paul R. Frommer. James Cameron hired him to construct a language that the actors could pronounce easily, but didn’t resemble any single human language. Frommer created about 1,000 words.

The Na’vi language was created entirely from scratch by linguist Dr. Paul R. Frommer. James Cameron hired him to construct a language that the actors could pronounce easily, but did not resemble any single human language. Frommer created about 1000 words.

14. Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal were the studio’s first choices to play Jake Sully, but James Cameron decided to cast the less known Sam Worthington in the lead role.

The cackling sound the wolf-like animals make in Avatar are recordings of the spotted hyena call.

James Cameron originally planned to have the film completed for release in 1999. At the time, the special effects he wanted increased the budget to $400 million. No studio would fund the film, and it was shelved for eight years.

15. Chris Pine auditioned for the lead role and said that it was his worst audition ever.

To make 20th Century Fox happy, especially after going horribly over-budget with Titanic, James Cameron agreed to waive his director’s salary if Avatar flopped at the box office. That obviously did not happen.

16. Jake’s atrophied legs were prosthetics cast from the legs of a real paraplegic. Sam Worthington’s real legs were tucked into the wheelchair and digitally removed in post production.

James Cameron was convinced that CGI effects had progressed enough to make this film when he saw Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).

17. The cigarette that Sigourney Weaver’s character “smokes” is computer generated.

Most of the animal noises used in the film are actually recycled dinosaur sounds from Jurassic Park.

18. Some CGI scenes took an average of 47 hours to render.

To appease 20th Century Fox’s fears, and remembering the harrowing experience of Titanic (1997) and its production overruns and costly delays, James Cameron promised to forgo his director’s fee if Avatar (2009) flopped.

The cigarette that Sigourney Weaver is seen smoking is actually computer-generated. No unhealthy habits on the Avatar set

Jake’s atrophied legs were prosthetics cast from the legs of a real paraplegic. Sam Worthington’s real legs were tucked into the wheelchair and digitally removed in post-production.

20. James Cameron admitted in an interview that he got the idea for Avatar after watching Disney’s 1995 animated movie Pocahontas.