Three hundred and fifty fucking million dollars. Or to put it another way: $350,000,000.
Deadline reports that James Cameron, the self-declared king of the world, is bringing home a royal ransom thanks to the “first dollar” gross deal he put together together when he signed on to direct. Also helping his bank account are the strong numbers posted by the DVD and BluRay release earlier this year. And Cameron’s bank account is only set to get fatter thanks to a planned theatrical re-release in August, another home video release in the fall and more merchandise and crap hitting shelves later this year.
In case you were asking, yes, it is probably the new record for a single film haul by a director to date. With that kind of money, Cameron could probably fund 25 or 30 Steven Soderbergh films and still have enough scratch left to buy his own island (or two, or three).
