Visionary filmmaker James Cameron buys mansion on the California coast

This massive Santa Barbara house may be suited for your “king of the world” dreams! The Wall Street Journal reported that James Cameron’s 102-acre Hollister Ranch property on the rural Gaviota coast is for sale for $33 mιllιon.

Jeff Kruthers of Hollister Ranch Realty and Emily Kellenberger of Village Properties/Forbes Global Properties own the listing. “Buyers seeking active environmental stewardship and a California coast oasis will be richly rewarded.”

The Oscar-winning film director and his wife Suzy Amis Cameron paid just over $4.3 mιllιon for the seaside property, which has an 8,000-square-foot main house with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms and several ancillary buildings, minutes from Drake’s Beach and miles of protected coastline, in the late 1990s.

The architectural wood-and-glass structure features a fireplace-side great room with panoramic ocean views through glass walls. The couple renovated it over three decades ago, adding new Rocky Mountain quartzite floors and restoring the original natural wood. The eat-in kitchen has Wolf and Sub-Zero equipment, custom lighting, and cabinetry.

The palm-lined grounds include a lagoon-style pool and spa, tennis court, organic gardens, and a sumptuous master suite, twin offices, movie theater, game room, and fitness center. A 2,000-square-foot guesthouse, 24,000-square-foot barn, helipad, off-grid solar and wind power, and two wells for irrigation and drinking water are all included.

“Too dispersed,” the pair is selling, according to the WSJ. They research unique fava bean and plant-based protein hybrids on 5,000 acres in New Zealand and 10,000 acres in Saskatchewan, Canada, according to the news outlet. They live in Crested Butte, Colorado, near the director’s Manhattan Beach studio, as well as in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, where he periodically films.