The About face: A 3D version of the classic film - from director James Cameron, who made 3D impressive with Avatar - in conjunction with its 15th Anniversary.
The Wild side: 84 years later a 100-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon 'Cal' Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.
The Movie facts: Titanic on the 1998 Oscar for Best Picture. Titanic's director, James Cameron, won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Director. In total, Titanic won 12 Oscars. (Leonardo DiCaprio was NOT nominated for a Best Actor Oscar).
STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Bill Paxton, Kathy Bates, Suzy Amis, Gloria Stuart, Victor Garber
DIRECTOR: James Cameron
STUDIO: Paramount Pictures
RATING: PG-13 (For
disaster related peril and violence, nudity, sensuality, brief language)
THEATER COUNT (Opening Weekend): 3,265
RUNNING TIME: 3 Hours
14 Minutes
TOTAL DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: $601.000.000
U.S. DVD RELEASE DATE: 1999
Wild About Movies Grade: A+
Titanic 3D Poster
Above: Original Titanic movie poster (1997) Below: The 2012 Titanic movie poster