October 29, 2011
Titanic is coming back to the big screen and it’s coming back in 3D. James Cameron’s massive Blockbuster will get a complete 3D makeover before it hits theaters on April 6, 2012. Cameron said: “This is a film that many people have seen, obviously, sometimes multiple times, but there is a whole generation of people who haven’t seen it in theaters.” Cameron and producer Jon Landau showed 18 minutes of 3D film at the huge screening room at Paramount Studios. Cameron said: “I love the 3D; I think it’s spectacular. If I had had 3D cameras at the time, if there had been 3D theatres at the time, I would certainly have shot the film in 3D.” According to Sky News, Titanic is the second highest grossing film of all-time (Avatar, another Cameron film, is number one). The movie, which stars Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet, won 11 Oscars in 1997, including Best Picture and Best Director for Cameron. Cameron hasn’t announced any plans yet, but the director did say that there are several classic films that could benefit from a 3D makeover. Could the Terminator get the 3D treatment? “I do believe that there is an array of 10 or 20 movies – think of the best movies of all time – that should be converted in 3D, but it has to be done right. I firmly believe that 3D is an enhancement even for just normal, narrative scenes, not necessarily the action scenes. That feeling that you’re right there, actually with characters, enhances the emotional interaction between the audience and the film.”