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James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian filmmaker. He has primarily worked in the horror genre as the co-creator of the Saw and Insidious franchises and the creator of The Conjuring Universe. The lattermost is the highest-grossing horror franchise at over $2 billion. Wan is also the founder of the film and television production company Atomic Monster. Beginning his career with the Saw franchise, Wan made his feature directorial debut with his first film in 2004. The franchise became commercially successful and grossed more than $1 billion globally. Following a period of setbacks, Wan found new success with the Insidious series, in which he directed the first film in 2010 and its 2013 sequel. The same year as the second Insidious, Wan directed the first Conjuring film to critical and commercial success. He served as the director of the second installment in 2016 and produced subsequent films in the franchise. Outside of horror, Wan directed Furious 7 (2015), the seventh installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, and the DC Extended Universe superhero films Aquaman (2018) and its sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). Both Furious 7 and Aquaman grossed over $1 billion, making Wan the eighth director with two films to reach the milestone. He is the 16th highest-grossing director of all time as of 2021, with his films having grossed over $3.7 billion worldwide. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Wan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Warpath is a 2022 American war film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Zack Snyder, Michael Bay and Tim Bevan and edited by James Wan from a story written by Spielberg based on the Mobile online game of the same name. The film stars an ensemble cast including Kristen Stewart, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dave Bautista, Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Emma Watson, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Caine, Naomie Harris, and Blake Lively. The most expensive film based on a game, with a cost of $897 million, Warpath was released on January, 27th 2022 to a surprise box-office success, grossing $549 million against a budget of $459 million. The film received largely positive reviews, with praise for its direction, Stewart's performance, action sequences, screenplay, editing, the emotional weight of the story, tone, faithfulness to its source game, and villains. Warpath was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Cinematography, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Stewart, and is regarded as one of the best films of its decade and one of the greatest war films of all time. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by Liberty of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" four months after its release. A sequel is in development, with Stewart set to reprise her leading role.
