When the AFL declared bankruptcy in 2009, the league minimum was $31,000 and the average salary was $80,000, with some players hauling in six-figure contracts. On the surface, the financial situation for players is tenuous.
Titanic (1997 film) Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance-disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.
Avatar had been in development since 1994 by James Cameron, who wrote a 114-page scriptment for the film. Filming was supposed to take place after the completion of Titanic, and the film would have been released in 1999, but according to James Cameron, technology needed to catch up with his vision of the film.