James Cameron, the filmmaker who will soon have more box office hits than anyone else, now has a billion-dollar net worth himself.
According to Forbes, Cameron is now a billionaire, reporting his net worth at $1.1 billion just days before the release of his upcoming film, “Avatar: Fire and Ash.”
Cameron joins a very short list of billionaire directors, which includes Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Tyler Perry and Peter Jackson. “Fire and Ash,” which is expected to be the highest-grossing Hollywood film this year, is also expected to earn Cameron about $200 million personally.
The third film in the “Avatar” franchise is seen as a lock to generate at least $1 billion in global revenue, with a chance of becoming Cameron’s fourth film to top $2 billion alongside the previous two “Avatar” films and his best picture Oscar winner “Titanic.”
It will also make Cameron the first filmmaker to direct four billion-dollar blockbuster films, surpassing Anthony and Joe Russo, who directed the Marvel box office hits “Captain America: Civil War,” “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame.” The Russos will have their chance to join Cameron in the quad club with “Avengers: Doomsday” in a year.
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” is the third installment in a planned five-film saga centered around the sci-fi world of Cameron of Pandora and Jake Sully, the hero who transforms from a paraplegic Marine to a Na’vi alien warrior.
In an interview on “The Town with Matthew Belloni,” Cameron said that producing “Fire and Ash” cost “a fk ton of money, which means we have to make two fk tons of money to make a profit.”
“I have no doubt that this movie will make money. The question is: Will it make enough money to justify making it again?” he added. “I’ve been in Avatar land for 20 years. Actually, 30 years because I wrote it in 1995, but I didn’t work on it continuously for those first 10 years. Yeah, absolutely, sure. If that’s where it ends, cool.”
