James Cameron’s 'Avatar' remains the highest-grossing film of all time ($2.9 billion). Its success was due to the perfection of 'Performance Capture,' where the actors' facial expressions and movements were recorded simultaneously and translated into their Na'vi characters. Cameron waited 10 years for the technology to be advanced enough to film it. It also launched the 3D craze of the 2010s, as the film was specifically designed for a stereoscopic experience. It proved that a completely original alien world could achieve global dominance if it offered a visual experience that was fundamentally different from anything seen before.