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James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is a major figure in the post-New Hollywood era and often uses novel technologies with a classical filmmaking style. Cameron first gained recognition for writing and directing The Terminator (1984), and found further success with Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), and True Lies (1994), as well as Avatar (2009) and its sequels. He directed, wrote, co-produced, and co-edited Titanic (1997), winning Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. He is a recipient of various other industry accolades, and three of his films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Cameron co-founded the production companies Lightstorm Entertainment, Digital Domain, and Earthship Productions. In addition to filmmaking, he is a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. He has produced many documentaries on deep-ocean exploration, including Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) and Aliens of the Deep (2005). Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies and helped create the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. In 2012, Cameron became the first person to solo descend the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible. Cameron's films have grossed over $8 billion worldwide, making him the second-highest-grossing film director. Three of Cameron's films are among the top four highest-grossing films of all time; Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Titanic (1997) are the highest, third-highest and fourth-highest-grossing films of all time, respectively. Cameron directed the first film to gross over $1 billion, the first two films to gross over $2 billion, and is the only director to have had three films grossing over $2 billion. In 2010, Time named Cameron one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Cameron is also an environmentalist and runs several sustainability businesses. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Cameron, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
James Cameron
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Eleven months after the battle with Doctor Octopus, Peter Parker is ready to move on — from high school, from grief, and from the ghosts that still haunt him. Graduation week should be a fresh start: he and Gwen share a small apartment in Queens, and for once, life almost feels normal. But when a string of high-tech heists sweeps through the city, Spider-Man discovers that the culprit is Adrian Toomes, a former engineer turned black-market scavenger. Using stolen Oscorp tech, Toomes has built a winged exosuit, becoming the ruthless Vulture — a man desperate to provide for his dying daughter, no matter how many bodies he leaves behind. As Toomes’ aerial reign of terror escalates, Peter’s fragile sense of peace begins to crumble, forcing him to choose between the life he’s built and the one he can never escape. Spider-Man: Wings of Ruin is an R-rated story of desperation, morality, and the price of survival. Vulture isn’t just another criminal — he’s what Peter fears becoming: a man driven by loss, willing to destroy everything to protect what little he has left. As their war tears through New York’s skies, Peter’s double life begins to unravel, endangering Gwen and everything they’ve built together. The battle pushes Spider-Man to his limits — testing not only his body, but his soul. In a brutal final confrontation over the city skyline, Peter must face the harsh truth that even when he wins, someone always falls.
