From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Top Gun Maverick's big box office provided proof that for the right film, people would go to the movies.

James Cameron acknowledges that success, but he also offers some context.

Top Gun was such a triumph. Nobody had made that kind of money in three years.

But we got to put it in

perspective. Top Gun was a hit in America. And it did okay overseas by Avatar standards. We made

three quarters of our money globally and a quarter of it in the U.S. on the first film.

History has repeated itself with Avatar the Way of Water, which has shot past Top Gun Maverick

and overall box office and crushed it overseas.

In part two of our conversation with Cameron, he talks about getting the Avatar sequel

a release in China, how he spent millions developing photo reel C.G. water that he doesn't

even really want you to notice and why he

chose to make a bunch of avatar sequels despite being tempted to walk away from filmmaking.

But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there.

So, the Golden Globes, you have written much more about the Golden Globes than I have,

but they went ahead and did it on Tuesday night.

This was after they were not broadcast last year,

they had a very small, non-noticeable ceremony after the LA Times had written about the lack of diversity in the membership

ranks, as well as some of the corruption, you know, that some of these members of the Hollywood

foreign press were not exactly press, and they took all kinds of goodies, and the voting did not

seem on the up and up necessarily, and the publicists didn't like it because

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