The recent history of blockbuster cinema in the United States has played out as a series of bets against the director James Cameron.
Before 1997, rumors spread that his new film “Titanic” had gone over budget and that the cast’s food had been drugged with Pcp.
But after its release, it became the highest grossing film ever for a time and won 11 Oscars.
Before 2009, “Avatar” was an ambitious film proposal about blue cat aliens in space that Fox didn’t want to make.
But then it became the first film to surpass the box office success of “Titanic,” and a benchmark…The post James Cameron’s Avatar Had a 10-Year Journey to Reach the Big Screen appeared first on /Film.
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