James Cameron gives fans the finger after being booed

James Cameron has divided the internet with his cold reception towards Avatar fans at a screening in Los Angeles over the weekend.

James Cameron has been caught flipping the bird at fans who booed him for not signing autographs.

After the famed director attended a screening of his new film, Avatar: The Way of Water, in Los Angeles over the weekend, he refused to stop for a crowd of autograph-seeking fans at the WGA building.

Cameron, 68, powered past the group of people asking him to sign their items, which caused the crowd to turn on him and shout.

“F**k Avatar,” one person yelled, as Cameron was escorted into a black car.

As the jeering continued, the Titanic filmmaker slightly rolled down his tinted window to reveal his middle finger.

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In a moment captured on TikTok, Cameron refuses to sign autographs after the screening.

... After being booed for the snub, he had a simple response.

Fans were divided over the interaction, with some calling him a “jerk” and “annoying.” Others dubbed him “a legend” and argued that the people booing him weren’t real fans.

“They were fake fans ready to resell autographed stuff 100%. The embarrassing way they reacted to his refusal proves that. Jim was right for ignoring them let’s be serious,” one person wrote on Twitter.

Another chimed in, “How in the hell was he wrong here? He has full rights to not give autographs. Yet who are these so called entitled fans who think it’s ok to Boo him if he doesn’t give an autograph? Are they really his fan then? Or are they going to sell his autograph and are just angry on him.”

Other commenters said they weren’t surprised by the filmmaker’s actions.

“Honestly, every time I see something about James Cameron online is either something about him being a narcissist or a bad person in general still, people defend his actions because he makes great movies,” one Twitter user wrote.

Check out the footage so you can judge for yourself (WARNING: Colourful language):

James Cameron flips off crowd who boos him for not signing autographs #AvatarTheWayOfWater
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Cameron recently revealed that his long-awaited Avatar sequel was rooted in his personal struggles.

“I thought, ‘I’m going to work out a lot of my stuff, artistically, that I’ve gone through as a parent of five kids,’” Cameron told the Hollywood Reporter last week.

The second Avatar film has been 13 years in the making.

The Canadian filmmaker recently explained the inspiration behind the new film. Picture: Anthony Wallace / AFP.

“The overarching idea is, the family is the fortress. It’s our greatest weakness and our greatest strength. I thought, ‘I can write the hell out of this. I know what it is to be the a**hole dad.’”

Cameron’s current partner, Suzy Amis Cameron, is his fifth wife. The couple have three teenage daughters, and adopted a fourth child in 2020. The Oscar winner also shares a 29-year-old daughter with his ex-wife, Linda Hamilton.

His latest movie, which cost more than $350 million to make, marks the highly anticipated follow-up to the original Avatar, which was released in 2009.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and has been reproduced here with permission