It is no secret to anyone that James Cameron is probably the most powerful director in the history of cinema, at least in terms of money. The arrival of Avatar: The Path of Water not only earned it a Best Picture Oscar nomination, but it also netted a few million more dollars to its bank account.
Magazine Forbes recently published a list of the highest-earning artists, creators, and celebrities in 2022. The vast majority are singers with spectacular concert tours; or producers who amassed their fortunes thanks to million-dollar agreements with platforms streaming.
However, the only filmmaker on the list is of course James Cameron. The American director has achieved what few with only three of his productions. To date so many his two deliveries of Avatarlike its super premiere and classic of generations, titanicmake up three of the five places on the list of the highest grossing films of all time.
while the original Avatar of 2009 swells (via) its coffers in the amount of just under $3 billion dollars, its sequel is dangerously close with a gross of $2.214 billion. titanic It remains an imposing barrier between the two with $2.218 billion, a figure boosted by its recent re-release in movie theaters.
However, regardless of the competition between them, the real winner is undoubtedly its director James Cameron. The aforementioned publication states that the man ranked number 8 among the highest paid artists in the world during the past year. According to his numbers, Cameron would have won the amount of 95 million dollars only in 2022.
The reports indicate that said amount belongs only to the royalties obtained thanks to the passage of Avatar: The Path of Water On cinemas. “According to industry insiders, in a deal said to be packed with bonuses for crossing certain box office thresholds.”
It should be noted that said 95 million greenbacks is a figure that represents earnings before tax deductions. And also less the expenses that are assigned to the fees of representation agents, or commercial operating costs. In any case, the figure is not less and makes Cameron the most powerful man in Hollywood, at least for the past year.
The celebrated sequel to Avatar It continues in movie theaters, so the figures for its collection are still not entirely definitive. Similarly titanic It will barely be on display for a week, so the coins continue to fall and will continue to do so until further notice.
During the last few days the world was amused by the brief competition that existed between the two Cameron films. For a passing moment, the adventure set in Pandora became the third highest-grossing film of all time, displacing the romantic epic on the high seas to fourth place. However, thanks to its anniversary revival, scheduled in time for Valentine’s Day, titanic it promptly regained its number three spot on the list.
The two James Cameron films are currently on Mexican billboards.
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