Jon Landau, Titanic and Avatar Producer, Dead at 63

Jon Landau, who produced a number of of Hollywood’s greatest movies together with Titanic and Avatar, has died on the age of 63.

Landau handed away on Friday, July fifth, following a battle with most cancers, in keeping with TheWrap.

A former government vice chairman of function movie manufacturing at Twentieth Century Fox, Landau later made producing his major focus by means of high-profile collaborations with director James Cameron. As a producer on Titanic, Landau helped shepherd the primary movie to gross $1 billion on the field workplace and later gained an Academy Award for Finest Image.

Landau additionally labored carefully with Cameron on 2009’s Avatar and its 2022 sequel, Avatar: The Manner of the Water. As of current day, Avatar, The Manner of the Water, and Titanic rank as three of the 4 highest-grossing movies of all time.

In an announcement in response to Landau’s passing, Cameron mentioned, “A fantastic producer and a fantastic human being has left us. Jon Landau believed within the dream of cinema. He believed that movie is the last word human artwork type, and to make movies you must first be human your self. He will likely be remembered as a lot for his huge generosity of spirit as for the flicks themselves.”

“Jon was my proper hand and I used to be his,” Cameron continued. “Lately we grew to become a trapeze act… complete interdependence, complete belief, complete synchronization. We grew to become not solely the closest of working companions, however the closest of pals. My final message to him was not solely that I cherished him however that I missed our every day dialogue. We’d discuss twenty instances a day, often in his workplace which he positioned strategically between mine and the set. Fixing each downside that got here alongside. Jon had the energy to inform me once I was improper, and I discovered over time to belief that he was proper. Jon cherished his work, and cherished the individuals round him, the wonderful group he had constructed. Every single day was joyful battle, in opposition to entropy — the chaos that threatens to unravel each human endeavor. The middle at all times held, below Jon’s watchful eye. We fought by means of the pandemic collectively to ship Avatar: The Manner of Water. Collectively, we thought we may remedy something. However you possibly can’t remedy the fragility of life itself.”

“I’m grateful for yearly, every single day, each minute we had collectively,” Cameron wrote to conclude his assertion. “I’m grateful for the idea he had in me and what his partnership allowed us to perform collectively. Part of myself has been torn away. However the wonderful group he assembled and led nonetheless stays, and we’ll dedicate ourselves to fulfilling Jon’s legacy.”

Landau’s different producing credit included Honey, I Shrunk the Youngsters, Dick Tracy, Solaris, and Alita: Battle Angel.

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