UPDATE: The death on July 5 of Jon Landau has had a great impact on the industry as well as everyone who knew him and/or his work. A veteran studio executive who later teamed with James Cameron to produce and win a Best Picture Oscar for Titanic and then go on to produce Avatar and its sequels, Landau was the real deal, “one of the best to ever do it” as Joe Russo said in his tribute on X Saturday. I have known Landau and did a few interviews with him over the past several years, even given was given a personal tour by the beloved producer himself at Lightstorm’s Manhattan Beach Studios headquarters.
I was very pleased to have been able to welcome Jon to our Deadline Studio at PMC in February 2023 for a wide-ranging Behind the Lens interview about his career on the occasion of the restored 3D 4K theatrical rerelease of Titanic. What better way to celebrate Landau than to hear from the man himself. Related Stories News Jon Landau Dies: ‘Avatar’ & Oscar-Winning ‘Titanic’ Producer Was 63 News Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024: Photo Gallery & Obituaries What can you say about a guy who has the Produced By credit on three of the four highest-grossing worldwide box office movies of all time? Well you might say his name was James Cameron .
.. or you would also be correct if you said Jon Landau.
Landau has had a hell of a ride rising from 20th Century Fox executive to an Oscar-winning producer with the kind of success few could imagine. Ask anyone who knows him and they .
