Avatar (2009)
James Cameron's billion-dollar special effects opus was really just a rehashing of movies like Pocahontas, Dances With Wolves and Fern Gully, but the addition of then-unparallelled CGI and 3D magic turned it into a very profitable beast.
U.S. Gross: $760,507,625
Worldwide Gross: $2,787,965,087
Source for box office data: BoxOfficeMojo.com
