Trung Phan
Trung Phan

@TrungTPhan

7 Tweets Mar 03, 2023
James Cameron now has 3 of the top 6 grossing films ever. And all three have grossed $2 billion ore more. Absolutely wild.
James Cameron was a truck driver before becoming a film director.
In his mid-20s, he drove down to the USC and filled binders by photocopying every technical filmmaking text (he says he got a film school education for $120 in Xeroxes).
Titanic is the most impressive from the entire top-growing list. It was a very poor business pitch. Here’s how Cameron explained him making the pitch to Fox: trungphan.substack.com
The other way to look at Titanic's dominance is *total tickets sold* (which slightly compensates for the fact that the first table isn't adjusted for inflation).
In top-10 films with most tickets sold, Titanic is the only one after 1982: trungphan.substack.com
Let’s get to the bottom of this
How Hollywood group chats talk about James Cameron
Unofficial poll results in: @EricBalchunas

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