Titanic (1997 film) the United States; the official Hollywood premiere occurred on December 14, 1997, where "the big movie stars who attended the opening were enthusiastically gushing about the film to the world media". Including revenue from the 2012 and 2017 reissues, "Titanic" earned $659.4 million in North America and $1.528 billion in other countries, for a worldwide total of $2.187 billion. It became the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide in 1998, and remained so for twelve years, until "Avatar" (2009), also written and directed by Cameron, surpassed it in 2010. On March 1, 1998, it became the first film to earn
James Cameron's unrealized projects film. Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, star of "The Hunger Games", "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Joy", had been cast to play Audrey Mestre. Francis Lawrence, director of "The Hunger Games", was directing. The film was being compared to Cameron’s earlier blockbuster movie, "Titanic", and was scheduled to be released in 2017. Since then, there has been no further announcements. James Cameron's unrealized projects The following is a list of unproduced James Cameron projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, Canadian film director James Cameron has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under