James Cameron Shows Off 'Titantic' 3-D Footage
Filmmaker James Cameron and producing consort Jon Landau showed 18 minutes of footage from their upcoming re-release of “Titanic” in 3-D to Los Angeles-based media on Friday morning. Essential Pictures is offering audiences a second chance to the see the 1997 blockbuster, which grossed $1.8 billion worldwide and sent the careers of stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet skyrocketing, on April 6, 2012.
The eight featured scenes included the instant Winslet’s character Rose first catches sight of the Titanic, the scene where DiCaprio’s Jack helps Rose tenderness like she’s flying at the front of the ship and the moment the Titanic finally sinks in to the ocean. All were moments designed to trigger the audience’s firsthand memories of the film. (Indeed, a women sitting catty corner to Speakeasy got a tad sniffly at the end.)
The film will be within reach in both 2-D and 3-D, though the latter option is naturally the bigger push. Cameron said at the screening that re-releasing the film was surely a marketing hook, but he certainly would have shot the film in 3-D at the time if the technology had been available. This new release, he said, was “reinventing the concept of a re-rescue.”
The footage was followed by a wanting Q&A session with the filmmaker and his producer Jon Landau to talk about the conversion process as well as the reasoning that went into doing this rerelease. In his introduction, Cameron stressed that he wouldn't be
