#2 | New World

Blockbuster

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Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

James Cameron excels at Roger Corman's film studio, meeting several people who will change the course of his life. An electric moment on set demonstrates James' filmmaking potential.

This award-winning 10-part original miniseries stars Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead, Avengers: Endgame) as up-and-coming writer-director James Cameron, and tells the story of how he fought through decades of personal struggles and career setbacks to assemble the most expensive and grueling movie production of all-time, Titanic, that nearly sank two film studios.

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0:00.0	Roger Corman's New World Pictures knew it catered to a niche audience.
0:06.0	Many of its movies were low-budget knockoffs of bigger hits, B movies with more sex, nudity, and bloody violence.
0:14.0	The studio operated from an old lumber yard.
0:16.6	It wasn't glamorous, but to James, it was a perfect place
0:19.7	to hone his skills hands-on, with little risk of failing. He was already spending long days here,
0:26.1	drawing, building, painting. James pitched the team film techniques straight out of his research
0:32.0	at the USC library.
0:34.0	This was his big chance and he had to impress.
0:37.0	And the big man himself, producer Roger Corman, was taking note.
0:40.8	James was getting more and more responsibility taking the initiative on things that needed to get done
0:45.8	and putting anyone and everyone in the lumber yard to work.
0:49.7	Hey you me do you work here Can I give you something to do? No, I'm...
0:55.4	Or do you want to work here? I can use the help. No, I'm the composer, writing the music?
1:02.0	Oh! Jamie, Jamie Horner. composer writing the music oh Jamie
1:03.4	Jamie Horner oh your Jamie. Jim Cameron nice to meet you
1:07.5	Jamie
1:08.7	was a 27 year old music theory teacher at ucla just getting started as a composer on the
1:14.8	upcoming film Battle Beyond the Stars. This was the first meeting between two
1:19.6	creative geniuses about to come into their own.
1:23.0	The shop's in there if you want to have a look.
1:25.0	Oh, yes, I actually would.
1:27.0	Come on in.
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