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    James Cameron was given a $237 million budget for Avatar, with main investors being 20th Century Fox and other companies. Cameron wanted to use new technologies in filming but they were not available. The cast was internationally diverse and experienced, including Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, and others. The film was heavily marketed before its December 2009 release through trailers, games, toys, and Coca-Cola promotions. It earned $77 million in its first weekend and over $22 million from a later special edition DVD, showing its commercial success.

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    James Cameron was given a $237 million budget for Avatar, with main investors being 20th Century Fox and other companies. Cameron wanted to use new technologies in filming but they were not available. The cast was internationally diverse and experienced, including Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, and others. The film was heavily marketed before its December 2009 release through trailers, games, toys, and Coca-Cola promotions. It earned $77 million in its first weekend and over $22 million from a later special edition DVD, showing its commercial success.

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    James Cameron was given a $237 million budget for Avatar, with main investors being 20th Century Fox and other companies. Cameron wanted to use new technologies in filming but they were not available. The cast was internationally diverse and experienced, including Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, and others. The film was heavily marketed before its December 2009 release through trailers, games, toys, and Coca-Cola promotions. It earned $77 million in its first weekend and over $22 million from a later special edition DVD, showing its commercial success.

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    Avatar Mind Map

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    James Cameron was given a $237 million budget for Avatar, with main investors being 20th Century Fox and other companies. Cameron wanted to use new technologies in filming but they were not available. The cast was internationally diverse and experienced, including Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, and others. The film was heavily marketed before its December 2009 release through trailers, games, toys, and Coca-Cola promotions. It earned $77 million in its first weekend and over $22 million from a later special edition DVD, showing its commercial success.

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    Was given a budget of $237,000,000.

    Main investors were 20th Century Fox. Other


    investors included Dune entertainment; ingenious
    film partners
    James Cameron already filmed other major
    blockbusters such as Titanic, the Terminator, and
    Aliens.
    Production He wanted to use certain technologies to make
    the film, but couldn't because they were not
    available to him.
    Cast was made up of people from a range of
    countries and other genres of film e.g. sam
    worthington - Australian, clash of the titans and
    terminator salvation; Sigourney Weaver -
    American, Aliens, dead man walking etc.

    The first set of images were released in Empire


    magazine in August 2009, as well as the first trailer
    that was released on August 21st. The video game
    trailer and toy range were also released on the same
    day to create more hype and excitment about the
    film.
    Distribution More trailers were released the nearer the release
    and date. Each new trailer was longer and contained more
    film footage creating more excitement for the
    audiences.
    Marketing Coca Cola collaborated with 20th Century Fox (cross
    media convergence, synergy). Using the website
    AVTR.com, special marked cans of coca cola zero
    enabled users to interact with the site 3D features
    using Augmented Reality technology.

    The film made $77,025,481 on the opening weekend


    from 20th December 2009.
    The film was released again in August 2010 exclusively
    to cinema's that showed in 3D or IMAX. As well as this
    Exhibition on DVD a special edition was released after the
    original edition was released which included 9 more
    minutes of footage and special features that the fist
    DVD did not have.This special edition itself generated
    another $22.4 million alone.

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