James Cameron

James Francis Cameron was born in Kapuskasing but grew up in Chippawa a small town just outside of Niagara Falls Ontario His father Phillip Cameron was an electrical engineer and his mother Shirley Cameron was an artist Due to his fathers career the family moved to Orange County Cameron went to California State University at Fullerton to study physics Although he got good marks he came to the realization that science was not for him and so he switched his major to English But he dreamed of being involved in filmmaking a dream that had started as a young boy when he saw i2001 A Space Odysseyi Finally surrendering to his dreams he dropped out of school and took a series of menial jobs including working in a machine shop being a truck driver a school bus driver and painting pictures which allowed him to write the stories he wanted to write After toying with making his own short films he landed a job as a miniature model maker for the Roger Corman Studios Making fast lowbudget productions he learned how to make films efficiently and effectively Soon he was working as an art director on the scifi movie iBattle Beyond the Starsi in 1980 and he did special effects work design and direction on John Carpenters iEscape from New Yorki in 1981 He has become one of the most successful producerdirectors ever His futuristic feature emAvatarem earned more than 27 billion at the box office and is the bestselling Bluray disc of all time Avatar 2 3 4 and 5 are planned for production and release beginning in 2010 His older films including emTitanicem have earned more than a combined 3 billion Pandora The World of Avataraem opened as a theme park that in May of 2017 as part of Disneys Animal Kingdom in FloridabrbrIn 2018 he hosted a series on AMC titled emJames Camerons Story of Science FictionembrClick here to a relnofollow hrefhttpsvimeocom773431413 relnoopener targetblankwatch a trailera for Avatar The Way of Waterbrbr