Official Trailer for James Cameron's Avatar, coming December 2009.In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture
Sam Worthington ... Jake Sully

Sigourney Weaver ... Dr. Grace Augustine

Michelle Rodriguez ... Trudy Chacon

Zoe Saldana ... Neytiri

Giovanni Ribisi ... Selfridge

Fox is hoping that what it has dubbed as "Avatar Day" will draw in the wider audience that the film needs to attract to become a hit. The studio is also releasing the first theatrical trailer for the movie on the same day, and Ubisoft, a videogame developer, will show the first trailer for the "Avatar" videogame. Jim Gianopulos, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, says that the clips that Mr. Cameron selected for the screenings "were designed to make clear that this is a general-audience film."

When the tickets for the promotional screening became available via the film's Web site last Monday, Fox's servers crashed within minutes, owing to the hordes of fans who signed up online to retrieve their free passes to the sci-fi adventure. After the first 90 seconds, 17,000 out of the 68,000 available tickets were gone—and then the site crashed. Fans grabbed most the remaining tickets within hours after Fox rebooted the site, with five requests coming in every second. The final tickets were gone by Wednesday morning.

Avatar - Big Bucks Create Incredible Movie Experience Through a Compelling Story
By Leanne Hoagland-Smith

Does spending millions of dollars to tell a compelling story make sense? From Cleopatra to Titanic, Hollywood has spent big bucks to entertain while simultaneously earning a significant return on investment.

After watching Avatar on its opening day, all I can say is the expenditure was indeed worth it. Of course to be honest, I am a science fiction fan from my early childhood days of reading Jules Verne to H.G. Well. I remember many of those now "cheesy" science fiction movies such as Them or The Blob to even the better ones As the Day the Earth Stood Still to the first War of the Worlds.

Watching this movie I had this one consistent thought, "Cameron's creativity was endless." From the colors to the intricate environmental relationships between the humanoids on the planet Pandora to all of the native flora and animal life not to mention the mixing of animation with actors, I just could not stop thinking about the details within this incredible film. Having experienced the many contemporary science fiction and fantasy films, I could not find one having such an intricate story line. Possibly the closest one was Dune and yet never reached the depths of Avatar.

While having this ongoing thoughts of Wow, how did he think this up?, I also experienced several deep emotion reactions to this movie. These emotional jumps reminded me of watching Sleeping Beauty as a child. Not since Disney (which was a very long time ago) have I had an emotional connection with an animated picture.

In reflecting after leaving the theater, I realized that Cameron must have had read McCafferty's Dragons of Pern not too mention possibly Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Last of the Mohicans. I saw and felt through the dialogue pieces of Native American to African American cultures.

The physical look of the Na'vi appeared to be cat like in the face like the Beast in the Beauty and the Beast television series. Their bodies moved like the felines in the musical Cats only with the combined agility of Spider Man, Flash and the Fantastic Four.

If you wish to experience something far different than anything you have ever seen, then you should purchase a ticket for Avatar. The only thing is you may wish to see it again because in one viewing you will truly not see everything that is happening on the big screen.

P.S. When it comes out in DVD, this is a must for my collection. Also, I believe Cameron may be thinking a series based upon the ending of the movie.

Author and entrepreneur Leanne Hoagland-Smith writes on a plethora of business and self-improvement subjects. Occasionally, she reviews the works of others. Get her first business and sales book, Be the Red Jacket in the Sea of Gray Suits, the Keys to Unlocking Sales Success.

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