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Titanic and Avatar producer Jon Landau dies at 63
American film producer Jon Landau, Oscar winner for the film ‘Titanic’ (1997) and close collaborator of filmmaker James Cameron, died this Friday in Los Angeles at the age of 63, without any information on the cause of his death.
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Landau’s son, Jamie Landauconfirmed his death to The Hollywood Reporter.
Cameron’s right-hand man, with whom he achieved some of the biggest box-office successes in the history of cinema, his work as producer earned him three Oscar nominations and the award for best film for ‘Titanic’.
A recognition that continued to grow with films such as ‘Avatar’ (2009) and its sequel, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ (2022), two huge box office hits as well.
In fact, the New York-born franchise producer stated in 2023 that each ‘Avatar’ film was an exciting and epic undertaking that required time to reach the level of quality that the filmmakers were looking for and that audiences expect.
The son of producers (his father was nominated for an Oscar), Landau was named executive vice president of feature films at 20th Century Fox when he was 29, which led him to oversee such major hits as “Home Alone” and its sequel, as well as “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “True Lies,” where he began working closely with Cameron.
“If one of Cameron’s superpowers is the depth of his approach, that approach is partly possible because Landau is somewhere nearby,” Rebecca Keegan noted in an article for the aforementioned film magazine in 2022.
At the film production company Lightstorm Entertainment, he and Cameron also produced Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris (2002), the war documentary Beyond Glory (2015) and Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel (2019).
They also steadily pushed the Avatar franchise, with upcoming sequels planned for 2025, 2029, and 2031.
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