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Jon Landau

Highest Rated: 97% Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You (2020)

Lowest Rated: 61% Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

Birthday: Jul 23, 1960

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

After getting his start in show business in production management, Jon Landau served as a producer and studio executive on a number of blockbuster movies before partnering with James Cameron to make two of the biggest hits in cinema history - "Titanic" (1997) and "Avatar" (2009). Landau earned his first producing credit on the teen comedy "Campus Man" (1987), followed by co-producing "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" (1989) and Warren Beatty's "Dick Tracy" (1990) before serving as executive vice president of feature productions at 20th Century Fox. During his over five-year tenure at Fox, Landau supervised production on many films, including "Die Hard 2" (1990), John Hughes' "Home Alone" (1990) and its sequel "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" (1992), "The Last of the Mohicans" (1992), "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993), "Waiting to Exhale" (1995) and "Broken Arrow" (1996). It was at Fox that he began his professional relationship with Cameron on "True Lies" (1994), which blossomed into a partnership when Landau returned to the producing ranks on Cameron's blockbuster "Titanic" (1997), a mammoth hit that earned over $1 billion worldwide and 11 Academy Awards, but had been a troubling production of epic proportions. After producing "Solaris" (2002) together, the team of Landau and Cameron brought forth "Avatar" (2009), a revolutionary epic that made a record $2 billion internationally while igniting a 3-D craze with Cameron's pioneering techniques. Because of his two massive successes with Cameron, Landau stood tall as one of Hollywood's premiere producers. The highly-anticipated sequel to "Avatar," "Avatar: The Way of the Water" was released in 2022. The production budget, said to be well over $350 million, brought in over $2.3 billion at the box office. "Avatar 3" is scheduled to be released in December of 2025. Jon Landau died on July 5, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA at the age of 63.

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Highest-Rated Movies

97% 69% Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You
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96% 91% Western Stars Watchlist 88% 69% Titanic Watchlist 81% 82% Avatar Watchlist 76% 92% Avatar: The Way of Water Watchlist
66% 59% Solaris
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61% 91% Alita: Battle Angel Watchlist
97% Titanic: 25th Anniversary
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100% Ding-a-ling-less
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
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Filmography

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Avatar: Fire and Ash 2025 Producer Titanic: 25th Anniversary 97% 2023 Producer Avatar: The Way of Water 76% 92% 2022 Producer Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You 97% 69% 2020 Producer Western Stars 96% 91% 2019 Producer Alita: Battle Angel 61% 91% 2019 Producer Beyond Glory 100% 2015 Executive Producer Avatar 81% 82% 2009 Producer Solaris 66% 59% 2002 Producer Ding-a-ling-less 100% 2001 Associate Producer Titanic 88% 69% 1997 Producer
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