The Last Airbender (2010 film)

The Last Airbender is a 2010 American action-adventure fantasy film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Based on the first season of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, the film stars Noah Ringer as Aang, with Dev Patel as Prince Zuko, Nicola Peltz as Katara, and Jackson Rathbone as Sokka. Development for the film began in 2007. It was produced by Nickelodeon Movies and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Premiering in New York City on June 30, 2010, it opened the following day in the rest of the United States, grossing an estimated $16 million that day.
The film tells the story of Aang, a young Avatar who must master all four elements of Air, Water, Earth and Fire and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom from declared war and restored balance to their world.
Whereas the animated series received widespread acclaim, the film was universally panned by critics, audiences, and fans of the original series upon its release, and is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made. Many criticized the screenplay, acting, direction, casting, plot holes, unfaithfulness to the source material, characters, and 3D conversion. The Last Airbender opened in second place at the box office behind The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Produced on a $150 million budget, the film grossed $131 million domestically and $319 million worldwide. It is the fourth highest grossing film produced by Nickelodeon Movies, behind The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), and The Adventures of Tintin (2011)  The film was originally envisioned as a trilogy of films each based on the three seasons of the series, but due to the universal backlash and the low profits of the first film, the planned trilogy was ultimately scrapped.
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