Jon Landau

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“Jim and I have worked together for 17 years. That’s a long time to work with anybody. Especially in a business that is as intense as the film industry. So you have to find the opportunities where you can just step back. The role of a producer is both to be the Devil on the shoulder and the Angel on the shoulder. You just have to figure out which times to be which.”

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As the producer of the two highest grossing films of all time, Titanic and Avatar, Jon Landau keeps a relatively low profile. Landau has been director James Cameron’s ...

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