us $ 180 million was spent to produce titanic the movie.
us $ 180 million was spent to produce titanic the movie.
how much did it cost to produce titanic the movie?
us $ 180 million
james cameron's "titanic" is the most commercially successful film about the ship's sinking. "titanic" became the highest-grossing film in history nine weeks after opening on 19 december 1997, and a week later became the first film ever to gross $1 billion worldwide. by march 1998 it had made over $1.2 billion, a record that stood until cameron's next drama film "avatar" overtook it in 2009. cameron's film centres around a love affair between first class passenger rose dewitt bukater (kate winslet) and third class passenger jack dawson (leonardo dicaprio). cameron designed the characters of rose and jack to serve as what he has termed "an emotional lightning rod for the audience", making the tragedy of the disaster more immediate. as peter kramer puts it, the love story is intended to humanise the disaster, while the disaster lends the love story a mythic aspect. cameron's film cost $200 million, making it the most expensive film ever made up to that time; much of it was shot on a vast, nearly full-scale replica of "titanic"s starboard side built in baja california, mexico. the film was converted into 3d and re-released on 4 april 2012 to coincide with the centenary of the sinking. cameron's film is the only "titanic" drama to have been partially filmed aboard the vessel, which the canadian director visited in two russian submersibles in the summer of 1995.
rms titanic in popular culture
"a night to remember", about the sinking of the rms "titanic", became a bestseller in 1955 and was made into a popular 1958 british movie of the same name. the historian tracked down 63 "titanic" survivors and wrote a dramatic, minute-by-minute account of the ocean liner's sinking during her maiden voyage. lord's knowledge of the "titanic" catastrophe achieved considerable renown, and he frequently lectured at meetings of the titanic historical society. in his final years, lord wrote another book about the "titanic" titled "the night lives on: thoughts, theories and revelations about the titanic", published in 1986, a year after the wreck of the "titanic" was discovered and interest in the "titanic" renewed again. in the next decade, lord served as a consultant to director james cameron during the filming of "titanic" (1997). the sequel documentary to cameron's film "titanic", "ghosts of the abyss" (2003), was dedicated to lord's memory.
walter lord