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~~Titanic has won the Best Movie and Best Actor-Leonardo DiCaprio award in the 1998 MTV Movie awards!!
~~The home video version of "Titanic" will go on sale Sept. 1 with a massive ad campaign aimed at repeating its record-breaking box office success in video sales. Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox which jointly produced and distributed the film, want it to be a "must" on everyone's Christmas list and to break all records for live-action video sales, currently held by "Independence Day." Paramount Home
Video, which will distribute the video, intends to launch its biggest marketing campaign ever in conjunction with corporate sponsors, Sprint and Max Factor. The media blitz, including TV commercials and full page advertisements in newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and Canada, will cost more than $50 million.
~~"Titanic" director James Cameron could be in legal hot water over some sketches used in the blockbuster film. In the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio's character shows a sketchbook full of charcoals of nude women to Kate Winslet's character. Cameron has said the drawings were his. But according to the June 1 issue of New York magazine, three of the sketches strongly resemble famous photographs: Sally Mann's "Rodney Plogger at 6:01"; Alfred Stieglitz's "Georgia O'Keeffe, Hands, 1920"; and Brassai's " 'Bijou' of Montmartre." That raises the question of copyright infringement; according to the report, none of the artists or their estates granted permission for their work to be used prior to the movie's release last December.
~~James Cameron made acameo appearance in Titanic! He was the man who was having his beard checked for ticks on the deck at SouthHampton!
~~Leonardo's paycheck for Titanic was $2.5 million
~~The 1997 J.Peterman Christmas catalog sold a vest, shirt and a pair of trousers worn by Leo in Titanic - for only $9,000
~~IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER!! April 10, 1998-9pm QVC Titanic-86th Anniversary of Fateful Voyage April 12, 1998-3pm WGN Titanic Secrets April 13, 1998-Leonardo DiCaprio on "Late Show" with David Letterman
~~April 2, 1998-"My Heart will go on", performed by Celine Dion, burned into everyone's consciousness after repeat playings at last week's Oscars, sales of the movie's soundtrack album surged to 476,000, bringing its domestic total to 6.6 million and its worldwide total to more than 20 million. The album has topped the Billboard album chart for the past 12 weeks
~~March 23, 1998-TITANIC HAS WON 11 ACADEMY AWARDS!!
Best Picture-Titanic
Best Director-James Cameron
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Art Direction
Best Costume Design
Best Original Dramctic Score-James Horner
Best Original Song-"My Heart Will Go On" performed by Celine Dion, Music by James Horner and Lyrics by Will Jennings
~~March 23, 1998-Celion Dion wore the famous replica of Titanic's "Heart of the Ocean" diamond necklace(worth 2.5 million) for her performance of Original Song Oscar winner "My Heart Will go on"
~~March 8, 1998- James Cameron thought about making the movie Spiderman and have Leonardo DiCaprio play Spiderman because he was so physically active.(said by James Cameron on chat with Online Tonight)
~~March 3, 1998- Titanic became the first film ever to earn more than $1 billion. The film ended the day with a combined domestic and international gross of $1 002 706 625. North American ticket sales accounted for $427 million of that amount and it still trails Star Wars, which earned $461 million, for the domestic record
~~Titanic has been nominated for 8 Golden Globe Awards and they have won:
Best Original Song-Music by James Horner, Lyrics by Will Jennings, and performed by Celine Dion
Best Picture-Drama
Best Director-James Cameron
Best Original Score-James Horner
~~Titanic has been nominated for 14 Academy Awards:
Best Picture-Titanic
Best Actress-Kate Winslet
Best Director-James Cameron
Best Supporting Actress-Gloria Stuart
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing
Best Make-up
Best Original Score(Dramatic)-James Horner
Best Original Song-"My Heart Will Go On" James Horner, Will Jennings
Best Sound
Best Sound-Effects Editing
Best Visual Effects
~~The Titanic Love Theme "My Heart Will Go On" will be performed by Celine Dion on the Academy Awards for the first time on stage
~~Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were both nominated in the catagory Best Actor and Best Actress in the Golden Globe Awards.(but they didn't win)
~~There are four remixes of the song "My Heart Will Go On".
~~The titanic soundtrack is #1 bestseller
~~The sequel of the titanic CD soundtrack will be released , not sure of the exact date, but will include Irish Folk tunes heard in steerage(3rd-class party) and the first-class chamber music. It would also include new arrangements of the various themes on the first soundtrack as well as snippets of dialogue
~~The Definitive Book:James Cameron's Titanic-is on sale and it includes a detailed look at the monumental effort by thousands of artists and craftsmen to accurately re-create the "ship of dreams", including the full-size replica of the ship and the 17-million-gallon tank facility designed to sink her, new discoveries from Cameron's 1995 dives to the wreck; an overview of the film's groundbreaking visual-effects work; and in-depth interviews with cast and crew
~~The ship shots of the sunken Titanic in the beginning of the movie were the real ship under water. Two and a half miles below the ocean's surface; taking camera men and the director James Cameron through a two hour free-fall to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
~~Number of hours James Cameron spent on deep-sea explorations of the Titanic to gather underwater footage: 180(approx.)
~~Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't the first choice for the part Jack. Screenwriter and director James Cameron considered Matthew McConaughey and Chris O'Donnell before deciding that both actors were too old to play the poor artist
~~Kate Winslet was so vowed by the role of Rose that after her screen test she sent Cameron a single rose with a card signed "From your Rose" and followed it up with a personal phone call. The ploy worked! She swiped the part out from under fellow contenders Gwyneth Paltrow, Claire Danes, and Gabrielle Anwar
~~Cameron named Rose after his grandmother Rose Cameron, a schoolteacher who always encouraged him to read
~~This was Leonardo' first million-dollar-plus paycheck. But he originally wasn't sold on the role and encouraged Cameron to make the character of Jack more "interesting."
~~Extra! Extra! Titanic Star Kate Winslet Nearly Drowns. Well, not exactly...but that's what a supermarket tabloid published after hearing about a mishap on the set. Here's the real deal: While she was running away from a huge rushing wave, Kate got her long coat stuck on a gate and was briefly trapped underwater until she could remove the costume
~~Thirty lifeguards kept constant watch over the 17-million-gallon water tank where much of the movie's filming took place. Not one of the cast of 150(or the 200 extras or 800 crew members) drowned, although three stuntmen broke bones
~~Since the shots on the decks of the ship were filmed in sunny, hot Mexico, special effects artists had to digitally add the white puffs of breath that come out of the actors' mouths so the scenes would look like a trip across the icy Atlantic and not a Caribbean cruise
~~While on location in Mexico, Leo was so homesick for his L.A. friends that he had them flown down to be with him.(He usually has a clause in his contract that enables his pals to fly free to wherever he's filming.) Among the star's closest comrades are his Titanic assistant, Jonah Johnson, and fellow actors Tobey Maguire, Kevin Connolly, Vincent Laresca, Dash Mihok and Ethan Suplee
~~Remember when the ship's bridge was flooded by water crashing through the windows? It was one of the most dangerous sequences in the movie. Director Cameron, an experienced scuba diver, filmed the whole scene himself wearing a wet suit and crash helmet
~~The blue diamond neckalace, Le Coeur de la mer(Heart of the Ocean), is fictional
~~Claire Danes, the Juliet in 1996's Romeo and Juliet, was the first chosen to take the part of Rose Bukater in Titanic but she refused. Claire said,"Yeah, I chose not to do that movie. I didn't want to do that movie. Can you imagine - another movie with Leo? Oh, another epic romance. And drowning with him...Yeah, again. The water - we'd never get out of the water!"
~~Number of minutes it takes to watch the film Titanic: 194
~~Number of minutes it took for the actual Titanic to sink: 160
~~Number of hours passengers spent on the Titanic before it sank: 120(approx.)
~~Number of months it took to shoot the film: 7
~~Length of the actual Titanic: 882 feet
~~Length of 90% scale Titanic model built for film: 784 feet
~~Amount of money it cost to build the Titanic in 1912: $7.5 million
~~Amount of money it would cost to build the Titanic today: $400 million
~~Number of life jackets that were available on the Titanic: 3560
~~Number of cigars that were available on the Titanic: 8000
~~Number of people on board the Titanic on April 10, 1912: 2227
~~Number of people the Titanic's lifeboats were able to carry: 1178
~~Number of Titanic crew and passengers who perished at sea: 1522
~~Percentage of women and children in first-class who survived the Titanic tragedy: 94
~~Percentage of women and children in third-class who survived the Titanic tragedy: 47
~~Number of people who were taken ill on the final night of shooting Titanic after a prankster mixed PCP into the clam chowder being served to the cast and crew: 80
~~Cost of a one-way first-class ticket for the Titanic in 1912: $4350
~~Cost of that one-way first-class ticket today: $75,000(approx.)
~~Cost of a one-way third-class ticket for the Titanic in 1912: $15-$40
~~Cost of that one-way third-class ticket today: $172-$460(approx.)
~~Although Titanic's Rose(Kate Winslet) and Jack(Leonardo DiCaprio) are fictional characters, at least one real-life romance resulted from the real disaster. First-class passengers Mary Eloise Smith and Robert Daniel met on the rescue ship Carpathia. Smith had lost her husband in the tragedy but managed to find a future husband in Daniel, whom she married two years after their salvation at sea.
~~Fourteen years BEFORE the Titanic sank, English writer Morgan Robertson wrote "Futility", an imaginary account of a collision between an iceberg and a large transatlantic ocean liner on her voyage to New York. But the similarities between the fact and fiction go further than that. Robertson's ship was called Titan, it was 800 feet long(the actual Titanic was 882 feet) and not unlike the ill-fated ocean liner, the Titan also didn't have enough lifeboats.
~~There was such a person named Jack Dawson aboard the Titanic ship in 1912. His body was recovered after the tragedy and buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia. But James Cameron got the name of Jack Dawson for the movie before he even knew there was such a person in real life.
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