Box Office Gross: 1.391 billion yuan Buddy comedies and James Cameron; that's what makes your average Chinese movie-goer happy, according to this list. Yes, Avatar was bound to wind up somewhere here, given its status as the-highest grossing movie of all-time and the size of the Chinese market. Like Titanic before it, Cameron's space-based action flick was met with a backlash a few months after its original release, though - like Titanic - it seems a little undeserved; presumably anything that is insanely popular risks a bit of a backlash. A lot of of the amazing scenery in Avatar was actually based on China's Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, which gave Cameron's film an added advantage at the box office there; many flocked to see the movie knowing that part of their culture had been used as inspiration. As a result, a section of the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park has since been renamed "Avatar Hallelujah Mountain." So there.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
