JAMES CAMERON
CONTENTS
• James Cameron's presentation
• Titanic (in 1998)
• Avatar ( in 2009)
• His movies
• His projects
• Video
James Cameron presentation
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James Francis Cameron is a director, a scriptwriter and a Canadian
producer been born on August 16th, 1954 to Kapuskasing (Ontario,
Canada).
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James Cameron, son of Phillip, an electric engineer, and Shirley, an
artist, was born and crossed his childhood in Canada, near Niagara
Falls. In 1971, he moves to Brea (California, the United States),
where he will be awarded a diploma by physical appearance to the
California State University. But his first jobs will be a mechanic and a
truck driver because he feeds quite other ambition: the cinema. His
first short film: Xenogenesis, is financed by dentists' consortium.
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He presides then as director, producer, co-writer, fitter, chief
cameraman, model maker and superintendent of the special effects.
This experience allows him to point out in 1980 by Roger Corman who
engages him in the company New World Picture.
TITANIC (1998)
• The idea made its road, and it gets down to
realize what will turn out to be the film of all the
excesses. Coproduced by two studios " enemy
brothers ", 20th Century Fox and Paramount, the
film, budgeted in 150 million dollars, will cost
finally more than 200, a new record, is more than
the price which had cost the manufacturing of
Titanic at the appropriate time. The passenger
ship is reconstructed almost as before, we
sayThat the caviar in plates was true. James
Cameron will moreover be obliged to sacrifice his
director's salary and his profit-sharing to receipts
to prove his faith in the project. Finally, Titanic
will be the biggest success of the history of the
cinema with more than 1,8 billion dollars of
receipts and the director will be widely rewarded
for it, financially at first, but also by eleven
Oscars among which three for himself.
AVATAR (2009)
• In 2009, he realizes the most expensive new film
of the history, Adversity, based on a scenario
which he had written at the beginning of 1990s,
but which he did not have been able to turn for
technical reasons. The film goes out on December
16th, 2009 in France. Twelve years later Titanic,
Adversity is a new major success for the director.
James Cameron works at the moment on an
adaptation of the first nine volumes of the manga
Gunnm (Battle Angel in English), under the shape
of a trilogy.
• These films will be turned in three dimensions
thanks to the technologies which Cameron has
already experimented on The Ghosts du Titanic.
Other interesting detail, the heroine of the
history (Gally) will be a character completely in
computer generated images.
HIS MOVIES
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1981 Piranha Part Two: The Spawning
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1984 : The Terminator
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1986 : Aliens
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1989 : The Abyss
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1991 : Terminator 2 : Judgment day
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1994 : True Lies
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1997 : Titanic
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2003 : Ghosts of the Abyss
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2005 : Aliens of the deep
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2009 : Avatar
HIS PROJECTS
• The Dive
• Avatar 2
• Battle Angel
• Avatar 3