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To experience the visual spectacle that is Avatar , Chinese audiences have flocked to theaters, with some reportedly paying up to $100 for a ticket.

"Avatar" will have to fight off "The Hurt Locker" at next month's Academy Awards, but James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster faces a more imminent threat this weekend: losing the top spot at the box office.

It wasn't all that long ago that we dared to speculate that 2010 might be the year when sci-fi finally returns to a place of prominence at the Oscars ceremony.

Published: Monday, February 1, 2010 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, January 29, 2010 at 5:26 p.m. If you've ever wondered why the Bible is a perennial best seller, go see Avatar.

The top-grossing movie in the world, Avatar , is on screens now, and it clearly identifies the most evil force in the universe.

Suffering from post-Avatar syndrome? Has the lull between the holidays and the summer blockbuster season let you down? For some theatergoers, that seems to be the case, as no movie, including such hopefuls as Book of Eli and Legion have been able to take down the reigning Pandoran epic at the box office.

You can never have top much Avatar, or so the makers of the new Avatar dagger replicas would like you to believe.

As regular readers may recall, at the end of last year I was having a little, perhaps unwarranted, fun at the expense of James Cameron 's Avatar .

Actors Sam Worthington, left, and Zoe Saldana star as digital characters Jake and Neytiri in the James Cameron film Avatar 20th Century Fox / WETA / Reuters Share In the beginning, Dec.

As I've seen Avatar a second - " and yes, third - " time, I've become more intrigued by some of the story's side details.

Avatar is well on its way to becoming the highest grossing movie of all time. After just over a month in theaters James Cameron stated in a recent Entertainment Weekly interview that a sequel is already in the works.

Well, Christian-ish, anyway. Na'vi spirituality seems to mix pantheistic and monotheistic beliefs.

I pretty much had to see Avatar despite major kinds of ideological misgivings... Aside from anything else, I had a funny sort of a feeling of deja-vu watching the thing.

We saw Avatar last night, and it is an amazing motion picture in two ways. Technologically, it is brilliant.

There's an instant in Avatar , James Cameron's $1 billion-and-counting global box office phenom, when a six-legged saber-toothed Thanator goes chasing the blue-skinned Jake Sully through the jungles of Pandora.

If it's true that great art is inspired by other art as much as by nature, "Avatar'' - purely from a visual point of view - is exemplary.

Daniel Larison has an interesting take on the neocons' inexplicable War Against Avatar .

Move over, humanoid Pandoran blue creatures - ESPN is getting into the 3-D game, launching the first all-3D sports channel starting with a World Cup match on June 11.

I've heard it said that if you scratch a cynic hard enough, you'll find a romantic underneath.

Here is a collection of some of my favorite lines from the James Cameron movie "Avatar," the 3-D extravaganza filling up Cineplexes this holiday season, which owes so much to similar spectacles that went before it in gaining groundbreaking status First, let me say that "Avatar" is an overtly political anti-war movie commenting on the Bush ...