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No, that wasn't even true domestically and overseas for its opening weekend only 25% of the screens Avatar played on were 3D and they accounted for 56% of the gross. That went up as positive word of mouth spread, but its 3D share didn't and couldn't possibly have reached anywhere near 100%. There just weren't nearly enough 3D screens back then. So few, in fact, that it got prematurely pushed out of thousands of them for other 3D movies. source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/avatar-dominates-intl-boxoffice-92522

The funny thing is Avatar is the movie that most gets singled out and bashed for being unoriginal, often by the very same fans of these other franchises. I'm a fan of some of them too, and am thrilled we'll be getting many more Star Wars adventures, but it's interesting to me how, at least among online movie fandom, some basic stories have widespread approval to be told over and over again, while the ones Cameron assembled for Avatar are so sharply criticized as belonging in the dustbin of history. Even though they are actually far more relevant to our times, with the habitats of indigenous peoples still under assault across the world (which Cameron has cited as a major motivation in making the sequels).