Avatar sets new precedent for CGI in film. 

Remaining silent since creating the biggest grossing film of all time –Titanic, James Cameron returns to the big screen with what critics are calling the future of filming. Avatar, the story of a disabled, US marine traveling to a foreign moon Pandora in search of a rare mineral only to encounter the peaceable, 10-feet tall, blue Na’vi people, cost a whopping $237 million to make and $150 million to market.  

Conceiving the film around the same time that Titanic hit theatres, Cameron waited until CGI was advanced enough to bring his baby to life. Sitting on the project for 14 years, Cameron hopes Avatar will become the next Star Wars trilogy. How far apart any future films will be, is yet to be seen as the film took 4 years to create.  

Labelled the “most expensive and technically ambitious film” of all time, the film has received mostly favourable responses from critics and could knock 2012 out of the running for 2010’s visual-effects Academy Award. The technology used to create the 3D version of the film, sets the bar for future films in the sci-fi genre.