Will Avatar be the biggest movie ever?

I think we all now accept that James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar will dominate the box office over Christmas. Due for release on December 18, it's already recieving excited notices from lucky journalists and bloggers who were invited to a 24-minute footage screening earlier this week.

As a mysterious character known only as 'The Insider' puts it on Coming Soon:

"It's the third scene where my heart begins to pound like crazy. Jake and Norm will inhabit their Avatar for the first time. They enter some sort of capsule and - flash – their mind enters the blue creatures, now lying on hospital tables. And not before long Avatar Jake wakes up. And it took my breath away. I thought--just like you guys--that I've seen it all with Gollum, or The Hulk, but Cameron has done it again. These creatures seem so real, that within minutes you forget you're watching an enormous and very blue CGI character. Even the eyes are totally convincing. The characters have real personalities and a soul"

Cameron's last movie, Titanic, was the smash hit of 1997 and since then he has confined himself to documentaries about exporing the ocean depths and developing new 3D filming techniques.

Avatar is sure to thrill sci-fi fanatics, many of whom already revere Cameron for his two massively influential Terminator movies and the action-packed Alien sequel.  Titanic was stylistically something of a departure for Cameron, but won him a colossal new audience who will almost certainly be tempted to give Avatar a look.

With its current release date so late in the year, there just won't be time for Avatar to reach its full potential audience before 2009 is over but it stands a fair chance of being the first, and quite possibly biggest hit of 2010. Beyond that, who knows? As long as there are enough 3D-capable cinemas for people to see the film in its full glory Avatar might just break Titanic's $600,000,00 US box office record

(pic from Latino Review)