Avatar, director James Cameron's fantastical 3-D epic, has done amazingly well in the international box office, earning about $2.21 billion. And it will probably have done equally well in the Chinese box office as well, if Chinese officials had not yanked the 2-D version from theaters. While China claims it was, as Asia Times Online reported, "drawing audiences away from the officially approved film Confucius," Western audiences are claiming that it is due to a striking metaphor to the government land-grabs in China. Since a law passed in 1991 China has been able to take property away from people, causing riots and cries of protest. Avatar, since it is a movie, ends happily, but can it end happily for Chinese citizens? Yes, apparently, since their protests of the movie being ripped from screens was heard and Avatar is back in theaters.