When the AFL declared bankruptcy in 2009, the league minimum was $31,000 and the average salary was $80,000, with some players hauling in six-figure contracts. On the surface, the financial situation for players is tenuous.
Titanic (1997 film) Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance-disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.
Scale models, computer-generated imagery, and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Playas de Rosarito in Baja California were used to re-create the sinking. The film was partially funded by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox.e labored the last six months on Titanic in the absolute knowledge that the studio would lose $100 million. It was a certainty, he stated. As the film neared release, particular venom was spat at Cameron for what was seen as his hubris and monumental extravagance.