Next year’s big screen re-release of James Cameron’s 1997 Titanic in 3D is going to be one of the highlights of the year in cinema, and we’ve been seeing some fantastic things from the film already, with the first poster and trailer and stills from the film posted just a few days ago.
The film’s YouTube channel has just put up a fantastic new featurette for the film, in which we get to see the director himself talking about the restoration of the film, how it was received almost a decade and a half ago, and how he’s hoping it will be received upon its re-release now.
For the longest time, Titanic was the world’s highest-grossing film, and the first film to pass the billion-dollar box office mark, taking more than $1.8bn. from its $200m. budget, surpassed only by another of Cameron’s films, Avatar, more than a decade later.
Giving a huge boost to the careers of its leading stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, Titanic was not just a commercial success but also a critical one, jointly holding the record for both most number of Academy Award nominations and wins, taking eleven awards from a total of fourteen nominations, with its wins including, among many others, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Music, for James Horner’s beautiful score.
Some of that score plays wonderfully over this new featurette, and it really instils a sense of nostalgia as you watch it. The film will get its big screen re-release in 3D on 6th April next year, marking the centenary of the original ship setting sail back in 1912.
And for those of you not too keen on 3D films, Cameron notes that before even beginning the 3D conversion process, he made sure that the 2D version was cleaned up to look as impeccable as possible, so fear not, for hopefully the 2D re-release will be playing in your cinema too, and you can appreciate the original version in even finer quality than when it first came to cinemas back in ’97. I’m personally really looking forward to seeing it again, having not seen it since I was a child, and I have a feeling that it’s going to do even better than the 3D re-release of The Lion King this year. Time will prove me wrong or right. Until then, here’s the fantastic new featurette. Cameron’s voice is really just a pleasure to listen to. Enjoy.
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