Avatar was released by 20th Century Fox in 2009. 20th Century Fox is one of the six major American film studios which produced some of the best grossing films of all time including the Star Wars and X-Men franchise. The director of Avatar is the legendary James Cameron who has won many awards for example the Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Director. James Cameron is notorious for having big budget films and having a massive budget on his movie Titanic. His movies frequently include strong female characters and feature scenes filmed in deep blues. He also frequently casts Michael Biehn, Jenette Goldstein, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
More recently there have been reports that Avatar is the most expensive film ever made with speculation that it cost $280 million. “It is the most expensive film we’ve made, but now, having the luxury of hindsight, it is money well spent, so I’m not concerned about it,” said James Gianopulos, co-chairman and C.E.O. of Fox Filmed Entertainment. The official number released by Fox was $237 million, but this price only reflected Fox's contribution to the production costs. My research indicates that the total final production cost for the film was approximately $425 million.
Avatar has an all-star cast except from the main character Sam Worthington who plays Jake Sully. Jake Sully had not been recognized in Hollywood before he auditioned twice for the role. It is said that James Cameron felt that because Sam had not done a major film, he would give the character "a quality that is really real". Also in the cast was Zoe Saldana who was famous for blockbuster films including Star Trek and Pirates of the Caribbean and