Hey Jim, buy me a house: James Cameron set to earn $350m from AVATAR

Hey Jim, buy me a house: James Cameron set to earn $350m from AVATAR

Jul 10

In an ironic twist on the Hollywood accounting nonsense I recently wrote some words about, James Cameron is set to rake in $350 million from the success of Avatar. That’s a lot of dollars.

How come he gets so much? Because he wrote, directed and produced the film; each one of those jobs probably came with a cent-per-dollar contract, and, being in control of the project in every meaningful way, he must have stipulated that he got a percentage of the profit before expenditures were subtracted. See kids? That’s the right way to go.

Apparently the majority of the third-of-a-billion personal payday (bigger than Oprah’s annual earnings) came from DVD sales (of which you reportedly bought a metric shitload). Who knows how much more he’ll make from the August re-release, or the DVD double-dip due later this year?

See Avatar again in August if you want James Cameron’s wallet to explode; Avatar 2 is in the works but James Cameron has to finish saving the world first.