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21 unusual facts about James Cameron


Abu Dhabi Media Summit

In 2011 Hollywood director James Cameron spoke about story-telling under the summit theme of “content and creativity”.

Another Version of the Truth

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor had originally intended to film the entirety of three shows of the Lights in the Sky Tour in 3-D, using James Cameron's 3-D team, for release on what would have been the act's last live album.

Charles R. Pellegrino

One of his recent books (co-authored with Simcha Jacobovici) is The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (2007), a companion book to the Discovery Channel documentary on the same subject created in part by film director James Cameron.

Girl power

But it's a new 2000 millennium now, and while Charlie's Angels and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon are kicking up a storm on movie screens, it's been down to James Cameron to bring empowered female warriors back to television screens.

Hashem el-Tarif

The James Cameron-produced History Channel special, The Exodus Decoded, suggests that this location, now in an Egyptian military zone, is the best candidate for the Biblical Mount Sinai.

Huangshan

James Cameron, director of the 2009 film Avatar, cited Huangshan as one of his influences in designing the fictional world of that film.

I Salonisti

I Salonisti is a chamber music ensemble most famous for acting as the ship's band in the 1997 James Cameron blockbuster Titanic.

John Urquhart Cameron

A member of a distinguished extended family of journalists which included James Cameron he wrote articles for The Courier, The Scotsman, The Good Ski Guide, The Good Holiday Magazine and The Scottish Review.

Josh Friedman

On August 1, 2013 he was announced as co-screenwriter of Avatar 2 with James Cameron.

Kenneth Turan

Kenneth Turan is featured in the documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism discussing his famous public quarrel with James Cameron, and recalling how Cameron e-mailed the LA Times’s editors calling for Turan’s firing after Turan wrote a negative review of Titanic.

Kidd Brewer

His son, Pierce Oliver "Kidd" Brewer Jr., a professional diver, appeared in the James Cameron films Piranha II: The Spawning and The Abyss.

Kondha

In a case of life seeking to imitate art, the tribe appealed to James Cameron to help them stop Vedanta, reckoning that the author of the film Avatar, which deals with a similar subject, would understand their plight.

Patricia Anthony

James Cameron acquired the movie rights to Brother Termite and John Sayles wrote a script, but the movie has not been produced.

Randall Frakes

Xenogenesis (1978 short), writer, director, and producer (with James Cameron)

Randall Frakes is a film and science fiction writer primarily known for his work with long-time friends, Bill Wisher, and James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Rey-Phillip Santos

He is best known for his small roles and stunt work on James Cameron's Dark Angel and the Power Rangers TV series.

Sean Hood

Sean Breckenridge Hood graduated from Brown University, with a double major in pure mathematics and studio art, and then spent several years working in Hollywood as a set dresser, prop assistant and art director collaborating with filmmakers as diverse as James Cameron, David Fincher and David Lynch.

Tim Webber

He has been the visual effects supervisor in some of the most technically and artistically challenging projects, including, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (2008), James Cameron's Avatar (2009), and Louis Leterrier's Clash of the Titans (2010).

William Wisher, Jr.

is an American screenwriter, known for his work with longtime friend James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

He also has a cameo appearance in Terminator 2 as a man who takes pictures of Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 Terminator getting back on his feet after being thrown through a store window, and as news reporter Bill Tyler in James Cameron's 1989 film The Abyss.

Zero Emissions Race

Passengers included UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Monaco's Prince Albert, Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.


A.P.N.G. Enterprises

Starlight Runner Entertainment and Jeff Gomez produced the Story Bible for James Cameron's sci-fi feature Avatar for Twentieth Century Fox and developed the Story Bible for the video game HALO for Microsoft and for the Tron franchise.

Adam Hauck

Some of Adam's recent work can be seen in the DVD documentary features he has written and produced for Gary Ross's Seabiscuit, James Cameron's Ghosts of the Abyss, Joss Whedon's Serenity, and Joe Carnahan's crime thriller Smokin' Aces.

Camilla Overbye Roos

She has worked with such internationally renowned directors as Lars von Trier, David Lynch, Ridley Scott and James Cameron playing Helga in Titanic (1997).

Craig Barron

Matte World Digital served the visions of such filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, and David Fincher.

Dennis Chamberland

In 1997 and 1998, he successfully operated his undersea station near Key Largo, Florida, inviting such guests as filmmaker James Cameron and television producer Rod Roddenberry.

Digital versus film photography

There also are many film directors such as Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, and James Cameron who are adamant supporters of digital cinema and the potential for higher frame rates that it brings.

Donald G. Jackson

Throughout his career Jackson worked with several filmmakers, including Roger Corman and James Cameron, but it was not until he began a long collaboration with American filmmaker Scott Shaw that the team created Zen Filmmaking.

Five by five

In a parody of this scene, the South Park episode "Raising the Bar" James Cameron says "We're in the pipe, five by five" as he lowers himself deeper into the ocean to find the "bar" that represents shameful feelings.

Nicolas Noxon

The film that resulted, Secrets of the Titanic, was for years the best-selling documentary released on videocassette and the original inspiration for James Cameron's feature film.

Phased plasma gun

In Aliens, another film by James Cameron, a "phased plasma pulse rifle" is a weapon that the excitable Private William Hudson (Played by Bill Paxton), jokingly informs Ripley is part of the Marines arsenal (along with knives and sharp sticks).

RMS Titanic Lifeboat No. 1

In a deleted scene in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon (Martin Jarvis) and Lucille Duff Gordon (Rosalind Ayres) are shown to be sitting in Lifeboat No. 1 with their secretary and a few crew members, when Fireman Hendrickson urges them to help people in the water.

Super 35

James Cameron was an early, consistent, and vocal supporter of the format, first using it for The Abyss.

The Jesus Family Tomb

The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (ISBN 0061192023) is a controversial book by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles R. Pellegrino (with a Foreword by James Cameron) published in February 2007.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi

On December 22, 2009, Canadian movie director James Cameron and author Charles Pellegrino met Yamaguchi while he was in a hospital in Nagasaki, and discussed the idea of making a film about nuclear weapons.

UD4L Cheyenne

Syd Mead and Ron Cobb both designed numerous versions of the UD4L, but James Cameron ultimately built his own miniature out of AH-64 Apache helicopter model parts.

Vietnam: The Last Battle

Coal miner Pham Ngo Duc describes the massive American bombing, which, according to Pilger, journalists James Cameron and Harrison Salisbury, were vilified for reporting.

Zhang Jizhong

He has hired Neil Gaiman as a screenwriter and the two were introduced to each other by James Cameron, who turned down the role as director, but has agreed to help with the special effects of the film.