China renames mountain to 'Avatar Hallelujah Mountain'

Apparently, China has now renamed its Southern Sky Column in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province to the 'Avatar Hallelujah Mountain' to honor James Cameron's successful blockbuster Avatar.

Avatar has become the most popular film ever in China, making $80m (£50m) at the box office so far.

"Many pictures he took then become prototypes for various elements in the Avatar movie, including the 'Hallelujah Mountains'," Reuters quoted the website as saying.

The renaming of the mountain is one of the several attempts by Zhangjiajie to capitalise on the success of Avatar.

The municipal government website has also adopted the slogan "Pandora is far but Zhangjiajie is near", while tourists are being offered tours of the locations which allegedly inspired the film, Reuters reports.

Fan-fucking-tastic, now we've actually got a mountain actually named 'Hallelujah'. Woo hoo! (-_-)'

Source : BBC