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Originally Posted by Stumptown
Studio movie, studio controls the budget and has final say on every dime that's spent on it. Unless he became head of 20th Century Fox and I didn't hear about it, someone's still telling him how to make his movies (Rupert Murdoch, even). Though he's probably got more control now than he did when the studio hacked and slashed The Abyss into that mess that was released (the director's cut was much better).
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Lightstorm is James Cameron's studio. And yes technically you're right, but I imagine he has a large amount leverage in this situation. For example:
Head of Fox: Hey Jim, so we didn't really like your first cut of Avatar
JC: Hey Studio Head, how about I do whatever the f*** i want or you don't get to release a James Cameron movie and make about a billion dollars.....sound goood?