Climb Avatar Mountain!
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From that nation that pulled the flick from theaters comes Avatar Hallelujah Mountain.
A mountain range in China, formerly known as the Southern Sky Column, had it's name officially changed yesterday as the government claims it inspired James Cameron's Avatar's scenic Hallelujah Mountains.
Of course, to really bank on the name change, two Avatar-themed tours are already available for tourists.
Fantastic!
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Thats pretty cool….FIRST
Remember your first posting about Avatar saying it was a big disappointment? You're such an idiot Perez.
I wonder if you've even seen Avatar yet!
AWESOME!!!
James Cameron is the best! I am Canadian and he makes me proud!!!
so china yanks the movie so it won't hurt their own government backed chinese movies…but they want to cash in on the Avatar name.
yup, that's the chinese governement…oppressive and opportunistic to the end.
Hell yeah. This movie was the shit. It is kind of weird for them to take the credit, but whatevs, kinda cool.
oh,why,it's so trendy,,yuck
I still can't figure out what the big deal is about avatar?
What?
This doesn't even makes sense.
Did you say China?
The country that pulled the 2D version to make way for their own movie, Confucius?
That CHINA?
What a baloney.
And I'm Chinese.
Never trust the PRC.
The lost world has been found!! At last we have found the main motto of this film. They just have for the advertisement on behalf of the Tourism Department of China.
I live in Shanghai and it was showing last night (friends saw it in Imax) and I am going to see it in 3 hours.Not sure what the reference to pulling it is all about
Wow that seems pretty hypocritical of the Chinese they don't show the movie than will do a theme park. Hope that James Cameron does something since they are banking on his franchise
horrible
YOUR INFO IS WRONG CAUSE I HAVE JUST WATCHED IT IN CHINA
Re: newenham –
My info is wrong?
This is the article, dude:
It doesn't matter that Avatar has pulled in over US$1 billion worldwide and is currently one of the most successful movie of all time in China, Chinese officials think the cinemas there should pay homage to Chinese-themed movies.
With that in mind, the nation's state-run movie distributor China Film Group has yanked the James Cameron movie off over 1,000 of its screens and replaced it with Chow Yun-Fat's biography of philosopher, Confucius.
According to reports from Hong Kong's Apple Daily the move to remove the award-winning movie from most of its cinemas was because officials believed that the Western film was taking a sizable chunk of money that should be going towards Chinese movies.
Just Google it, dude.
Oh that's right.
You don't Google.
You Baidu!
Not sure what you are on about Sashaqueenie but I saw it last night in Shanghai and it was playing at other cinemas also.You can quote media reports out of HK all you like but its fact what I saw
As for Google.Still have it.You are believing everything you read in the media
The 3D cinemas charge more, so based on earnings Avatar may be up there. However, in actual numbers of viewers, Avatar is still behind a lot of films. Cameron is far from being the king of the world, he did not appear in the ten best directors of all time. That included names like Hitchcock,Kubrik, Truffaut, Kurosawa,Spielberg, and others.