Los Angeles: Jon Landau, Oscar-winning producer of the films ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’, has died. He was 63.
The news of Landau’s death was confirmed by his son Jamie Landau. According to the Hollywood Reporter, he died in Los Angeles on Friday, and no cause was given.
Landau was James Cameron’s longtime production partner, working with him on the blockbusters Titanic and Avatar.
Last February, Landau reflected on the first time he worked with Cameron, when he was at Fox and was assigned the director’s 1994 action comedy True Lies. “I think Jim was a little skeptical.
He said, ‘So I think we’re going to be great friends. Or maybe not,'” Landau told Deadline’s Pete Hammond in “Behind the Lens With a Laugh.”
Landau was born in New York on July 23, 1960. His parents, Eli A. Landau and Edie Landau, were Manhattan movie house owners who founded the American Film Theatre and produced more than a dozen films, including Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962), The Pawnbroker (1965), The Iceman Cometh (1973), and The Chosen (1981).
Landau first received a producer credit on Paramount’s Campus Man (1987), after which he co-produced two Disney films, Joe Johnston’s Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy.
Before his death, Landau was deeply involved in the production of the ‘Avatar’ sequels.
