Titanic is an epic American disaster romantic film released in 1997, directed, screened, co-produced, co-edited, and partially financed by James Cameron. The film is based on the famous 1912 RMS Titanic shipwreck, starring starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as two people from two different walks of life, they fall in love on the first voyage of the ill-fated ship.
Cameron's inspiration for the film came from his infatuation with shipwrecks (he himself affirmed); he wants to convey a sentimental message from the disaster and see that a romance that ends with the loss of one of the two will help him do this. Filming began in 1995, when Cameron started filming the wreck of the Titanic lying on the ocean floor. The current scenes were filmed aboard the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, and this is also the place Cameron used as the accommodation and base for the crew when filming the wreck. A new Titanic has also been rebuilt at the Playas de Rosarito in Baja California; miniature models and computer-based image simulation technologies are used to recreate shipwrecks. The budget for the film was provided by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox, which at the time was the highest-budget film in history, with an estimated total investment of about US $ 200 million. [2 ] [3] [4]
First premiered on November 1, 1997 at the Tokyo International Film Festival and officially released on December 19, 1997, the film has enjoyed great success both in terms of sales and expertise. Out of the fourteen Academy Awards nominated, the film won eleven categories, including Best Film and Best Director, equal to Ben Hur's (1959) record for film winning multiple awards. Oscar the best. With revenues of over US $ 1.84 billion in its first release, the film also became the first film to exceed the $ 1 billion revenue mark. Titanic held the title of highest-grossing film of all time, until another Cameron movie released in 2009, Avatar surpassed its record in 2010. A 3D version of the movie, playing April 4, 2012 (commonly known as Titanic 3D) celebrates a century since the shipwreck, bringing in an additional US $ 343.6 million globally, bringing Titanic's worldwide sales up. USD 2.18 billion milestone. This is the second film to cross the $ 2 billion mark worldwide after Avatar.