James Cameron forfeited his $8 million upfront director's salary and his percentage of the initial gross when the studio became concerned at how much over budget the movie was running; he would only receive a back-end percentage if the film did exceptionally well. He noted that initial compliments over the raw footage became more sparing over time as the costs spiraled out of control, and the studio heads at 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures "acted like they'd been diagnosed with terminal cancer" as the release date drew near. Even Cameron himself was at one point convinced that the film would bomb, and he would never work again; analysts had predicted a total loss of at least $100 million, so he could only hope to at least make a very good film. At one point, he ran into Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch, and told him "I guess that I'm not your most favorite person in the world, but the movie is going to be good". Murdoch simply replied "It better be a damn sight better than 'good'."

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