We’ll never let go ofTitanic— and we won’t have to, as it’s returning to theaters in honor of the film’s 25th anniversary.
James Cameron’s historical-romance epic is set to make a splash on movie screens once more next month, marking the occasion witha brand-new trailerand poster.
The film, which clocks in at 3 hours and 15 minutes and won a record 11Academy Awardsin 1998, will be screened in 3D 4K HDR with high-frame rate.
StarringLeonardo DiCaprioandKate Winsletas ill-fated lovers Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater,Titanicweaves an intricated love story set aboardthe doomed RMSTitanicin 1912.
The blockbuster film held the No. 1 box-office spot for 15 straight weeks and became the highest-grossing movie of all time, ultimately earning $2.2 billion worldwide — a record it held until Cameron’s 2009 filmAvatar.
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Director Cameron, 68, recently toldDeadlinehe “can’t imagine that film” without its two leading stars in DiCaprio, 48, and Winslet, 47, who both went on to win Oscars of their own later in their careers.
“I think about that casting Leonardo and Kate inTitanic. Leo, the studio didn’t want him; I had to fight for him,” Cameron told the outlet during an interview about his career and his newest movie,Avatar: The Way of Water.
“Kate really liked him,” the filmmaker said of DiCaprio. “And then Leonardo decided he didn’t want to make the movie. So then I had to talk him into it.”
During the interview, Cameron notedthatTitanic"wouldn’t have been that film"if DiCaprio had decided not to take his role as Jack, or if anything with the production had come together differently.
“You think at any one of those places, if that had really kind of frayed apart, it would have been somebody else and it wouldn’t have been that film,” he said. “And I can’t imagine that film without him and without her.”
Aside from its box-office and Oscar haul,Titanicmade waves for its soundtrack — in particular, composer James Horner andCéline Dion’s record-breaking ballad"My Heart Will Go On."
“I spent a year researching because I wanted it to be as accurate as possible,” Cameron recently told PEOPLE of the film, for aTitanicspecial editionissue. “I said to the team, ‘Guys, I want it to be like we went back in a time machine and filmed what happened.’ "
“Of course, history is a bit elusive, and people had differing accounts. But we got pretty close, and nothing in our subsequent 20-plus years of investigation really upset anything major in the film,” he continued. “Could I, as a rivet-counting nerd, make a few tweaks to the movie? Yes,but I think we got it pretty right.”
Titanicdocks in theaters Feb. 10.
source: people.com
