The cause of his death was not specified.
LOS ANGELES - Jon Landau, an Oscar-winning producer and longtime collaborator of director James Cameron who helped bring to life three of the highest-grossing films of all time, Titanic and the two Avatar movies, died on July 5 in Los Angeles. He was 63.
Titanic was nominated for 14 Oscars and won 11, including for best picture, an award Cameron and Landau shared. Many of these adaptations were released through a subscription service that the Landaus created called the American Film Theater, which gave audiences access to regular screenings of movie versions of plays.
It was during this time that he met Cameron, who was directing True Lies , an action comedy distributed by 20th Century Fox, according to the statement. When Landau decided to leave the company, Cameron asked if he wanted to read the script for a project code-named Planet Ice. That project would become Titanic and kick off a partnership that lasted decades.
“I had all these constituents including heads of various departments such as special effects, props, wardrobe that needed help and support – sometimes moral support, sometimes financial support,” Landau said. Landau also worked as chief operating officer of Cameron’s production studio, Lightstorm Entertainment, and was the driving force behind a Walt Disney World attraction based on the Avatar movies.
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