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9-21

Here is a scene by scene description of the revised Titanic trailer:

From Joseph James Luckard III

-In the original trailer the shot of the Titanic at Southampton dissolved into Rose at a railing, looking at the sunset. This dissolve is replaced with a bow-on CGI shot of the ship sailing from Southampton, assisted by tugs.

-A new CGI shot of the fully lit liner at sea, at sunset, much like, except a mirror image of, the shot from last fall's CBS mini-series shown in the "Newsweek" article last November.

-A CGI sequence showing the iceberg as seen from the crow's nest, the bow grinding past the berg, and an underwater shot of the collision.

-A new shot of the cargo hold being torn open, with far less water coming in. The amount shown pouring in in the first trailer would have sunk the ship in minutes.

-The cargo hold set flooding, and a wall of water washing crew past the lashed-down auto seen in the opening shot at Southampton.

-A CGI shot looking back on the length of the sinking ship, from about a hundred feet up, off the starboard bow, as the bridge submerges.

-Entirely new shots of panic on deck and lifeboats being lowered.

-An astonishing CGI shot of a man falling hundreds of feet from the stern as it tilts at a 45 degree angle, the camera follows him down.

-A shot of the ceiling of the lounge crushing under tremendous pressure.

-New shots of water bursting through the dome over the Grand Staircase

-A terrifying CGI shot of the mid-section of the ship exploding as it tears in half.

-A CGI shot of the massive stern half crashing down onto survivors swimming under it.

-A new shot of people falling down the poop deck as it approaches a 90 degree angle.

-A CGI shot of the stern, which goes in on Rose and Jack, to segue into the shot from the last trailer, of them on the stern railing as the stern stands on end.

-The final change is in the credits. The words "Soundtrack on Sony Classical" now appear.

9-23

Titanic is now in the can and will be sitting somewhere while we wait and others get to see it in advance. The good thing about this is that they are buzzing with excitement over the film. Steve Golin, head of Propaganda Films said, "I can't wait to see 'Titanic.' Everyone is curious. I think they were smart - and lucky - that they didn't come out in the summer. Now there's so much interest that even if it doesn't receive great reviews, it will do well.”

One of the latest, and most interesting rumors to come about recently, is one involving a man by the name of George Lucas. The rumor says that George will attach the trailer for the first Star Wars prequel in front of Titanic. It was originally supposed to be in front of Alien Resurrection. The reason for the switch? Lucas knows that the trailer itself will make people pay to see whatever movie it's attached to first, and he's doing this as a 'thankyou' to James Cameron for all the help Cameron's FX company Digital Domain has done for him recently.

9-30

Titanic Sets World Premiere In Tokyo.

The world premiere of James Cameron's behemoth Titanic is scheduled for Nov. 1 at the Tokyo International Film Festival, exactly seven weeks before its scheduled U.S. debut on Dec. 19.

The movie is certain to make a huge splash in Japan, where star Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the hottest box office attractions. The film initially had been pegged for a July release in the U.S. by Paramount, which has North American distribution, but was postponed because Cameron couldn't finish the film on time.

The Japanese release is scheduled for Dec. 20. Fox will distribute the picture overseas.

Reuters/Variety

10-6

Not really Titanic News but this was still pretty important to all those James Cameron fans out there (like me).

By E! Online News Staff

Is Terminator 3 terminated?

20th Century Fox says it's dropping out of next week's auction for the rights to Terminator 3, and that could spell the end of the franchise that has grossed half a billion dollars worldwide. But is it merely a bargaining ploy in a multimillion dollar negotiation? Or has a major studio finally stepped back from the rampaging budgets that have plagued Hollywood in recent years?

These and other questions will be answered October 14 at a bankruptcy auction where the rights to T3 will be awarded to the highest bidder--highest over an opening bid of $7.5 million, that is, with estimates putting the figure as high as $10 to $12 million.

Fox, which had been negotiating with producer Gale Anne Hurd, former wife of T1 and T2 writer-director James Cameron, thought it had the rights sewn up for a far lower figure. Indeed, the studio had spent months of negotiations lining up the creative forces to make the sequel--meaning the package of Cameron and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who starred in both previous Terminator films

Then came the trouble--starting with the revelation last month that Andy Vajna, the co-founder of now-defunct Carolco (which produced the first two films), negotiated with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to obtain rights to T3 for $7.5 million. Vajna, as it turned out, owns the right to outbid any other investor.

Now Fox has said it will walk, refusing to make the film with anyone but Cameron, and pointing to budgets spiraling out of control. Its effort to limit T3 to the $95 million cost of T2 was already being challenged by a $25 million payday to Schwarzenegger, and the added cost of the rights would have made it nearly impossible.

And the last thing the studio wanted was Cameron piloting another Titanic into financial oblivion.

Neither the studio nor Cameron will attend the auction, which could leave some other studio or producers holding the really expensive rights to a film that neither Cameron nor Schwarzenegger will be involved in. Or it might just scare other bidders away, allowing Fox to get the rights for a song. That's what has Hollywood pundits gossiping over seared ahi at the Ivy.

10-7

Canadian pop star Celine Dion has booked a last-minute berth on "Titanic", the much-anticipated James Cameron pic, and she'll be belting out the film's theme song, "My Heart Will Go On."

Pennd by James Horner, the shipwreck ballad was produced by Horner and seasoned knob-twirler Walter Afanasieff.

Daily Variety

10-9

Digital Domain wipes 54 jobs Digital Domain has laid off 54 people in its second wave of pink slips in less than four months. Like the first round of 31 job cuts in July, the latest furloughs hit several different departments at the Venice, Calif.-based visual-effects company and were attributed to a slowdown in Hollywood movie production. The cutbacks leave the company with a full-time work force of about 200, in addition to an unspecified number of employees hired on a temporary basis and attached to various specific projects. Just before the first layoffs, DD had wrapped work on "Titanic," the Fox/Paramount epic helmed by the visual-effects company's co-founder, James Cameron. More recently it completed shots for MGM's "Red Corner."

From: Hollywood Reporter

10-13

Titanic will also screen November 18, in London, at the 51st Royal Film Performance, benefitting the Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund. Charles, the Prince of Wales, will attend the screening, whcih will be hled at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square. 20th Century Fox will release the film in the U.K. on January 23.

Daily Variety

10-16

Well, the new trailer has come and gone. Paramount saw that it was up and went into a panic forcing it's removal from that great homepage. What can I say other than, what?! I just don't see the point in holding back information from a film. Letting people download a trailer for a film can only help it.

As soon as I find this awesome new trailer I will post it on this site.

10-20

A new article has appeared in Entertainment Weekly about web sites related to Titanic. You just may see this site mentioned.

10-27

There is now a presence at the official site. You can download the trailer, get some desktop images and there will be 3 different pictures posted there each day.

The trailer they have there is the second trailer of the 3. It's not the one Paramount took off the web a few weeks ago, which is also the one I tried to send to all of you, it is the modified one of the original trailer. It's also the trailer currently playing with In & Out and Kiss The Girls. So this one has all the new CGI sequences in it. Download this one, it is easily the best of the 3. Go here for a description of the trailer.

This teaser site could be in response to Entertainment Weekly's article last week, about how fans had web sites up before the studio did.

Some new news on the trailer that was taken off the web:

From Countdown to Titanic

"Remember that “trailer” everyone was downloading and which was quickly removed a while back? It was a pirated copy of a work-in-progress, not the real thing. Artists have pride, and hate to see things like that get on the Net."

Well, there you go. So Paramount was just in taking it off the web. Good to know that they are only trying to promote Titanic's presence on the web.

10-30

I've got some new information about the official Titanic Website.

It seems as though the teaser site, which is currently up and running now, was not in response to the article in Entertainment Weekly. This site was ready to go before the article went to press. The teaser site was designed to generate some interest in the film before the behemoth site launches on November 7th which I've heard will blow our socks off. I can't wait!

I think the idea of a teaser site is a great idea. Its just with the article in EW and the teaser site going up a week later made it look a little suspicious. Like Paramount was aiming for a quick fix. Glad to see I was wrong and that Paramount is doing everything they can to get people to goto this site.

11-2

Here is some Titanic news on its premiere in Tokyo yesterday:

"Titanic," the most expensive film in history, finally set sail Saturday and looked likely to avoid becoming the cinematic equivalent of the doomed ship.

Reporters and reviewers at the premiere in Tokyo gave the movie a generally warm reception, noting the much ballyhooed special effects.

But some suggested that three hours and three minutes constituted a little too much time sloshing around in the water for stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

A large contingent of Japanese teen-aged girls at the screening for about 2,000 people seemed primarily interested in catching a look at DiCaprio, who attended the premiere with director James Cameron.

"I think the Japanese fans are the best and most loyal in the world," DiCaprio said to screams of delight at what sounded at times more like a pop concert than a film extravaganza.

He described making the film as a "long journey" and said "it made a man out of me."

Twentieth Century Fox, which will distribute the film internationally, bore the brunt of the production costs.Although the studio will not comment, industry sources have put the budget at a record $200 million.

"It is a movie which was extremely expensive going into, and in which we have reasonably significant budget overruns," News Corp's Peter Chernin recently told the annual meeting in Australia.

The film had been delayed from a summer release, sparking the usual Hollywood rumours of a disaster in the making. It is now set to start its run with a mid-December release in the United States.

Some critics also suggested that the decision to premiere in Tokyo at the Tokyo International Film Festival was meant to unveil the movie to the usually polite Japanese media and win positive reviews before diving into the potentially chillier waters of the London debut November 18.

Historical purists will likely take some umbrage that the monumental disaster has mainly become a backdrop for a love story bringing together the high-toned Winslet with drifter DiCaprio, who gets on the ship only because he won a steerage ticket in a poker game.

There will also no doubt be some chuckles at some of the dialogue, including DiCpario's line as the water is rising around him: "This is bad."

Winslet meanwhile gets the chance to make an obscene gesture using the middle finger, not a common action for women in 1912.

The two also share a scene where DiCaprio teaches Winslet, who feels locked into the sterile world of high society, how to spit overboard.

But the film does pay respect to the enormity of the Titanic disaster, noting that only one lifeboat returned to try to find those left in the water after the sinking, rescuing only six people.

Cameron struck a sombre note at the premiere, pointing out that the audience for the viewing was about the same size as the 2,200 on board for the maiden voyage of the ship.

"If we were all here on the Titanic, three-quarters of us would be dead by tomorrow," he said.

"I would like to dedicate this film to the 1,500 people who died on the Titanic," he added.

Reuters/Variety

11-3

Tomorrow on Entertainment Tonight, James Cameron will be showing never before seen images of film he shot of the actual Titanic under the sea. Don't miss it!

"I had an instinct that the Japanese audience would embrace a serious subject that had a strong emotional component to it, and from what I can tell so far from the initial reaction, it looks like we were right," Cameron said at a news conference.

Cameron said high expectations and bad luck pushed up production costs and pushed back the release date for the disaster epic. He also defended the reported $200 million that was sunk into the picture.

"What you will lose as a result of a film like 'Titanic' is maybe three Steven Segal films," Cameron said.

The movie is set to make its London premiere Nov. 18, and Cameron said he will leave it up to moviegoers to decide if the production cost for "Titanic" was money well spent.

Producer Jon Landau said he was thrilled with the reception the film received in Tokyo.

Landau, who will travel with Cameron to London, said the movie's high budget was a boon for economies in places such as Baja, Mexico, and Halifax, Canada, where filming took place.

The movie's stellar price tag surpassed that of "Waterworld," the futuristic action film produced by and starring Kevin Costner that cost $170 million to make.

Also appearing at Monday's press conference, "Titanic" star Leonardo DiCaprio said he looked forward to working with Cameron again.

"We talked about it, and he had the idea of doing a smaller film," DiCaprio said, adding any film would be small in comparison with "Titanic."

"Titanic" is now scheduled to set sail in the United States on Dec. 19. It originally had been slated for a summer 1997 release, but production problems pushed its opening.

Reuters/Variety

11-5

Here is some news on the album and behind-the-scenes book:

Titanic Album in stores November 18
James Cameron's Titanic in bookstores November 21 -Order it here!-

11-9

Remember that trailer for Titanic that was posted on the net but then taken down the next day by Paramount? Well, if you want to see it, it is running before many prints of Starship Troopers. The bad thing is, you'll have to sit through Starship Troopers. If you don't want to sit thorugh Starship Troopers to see the trailer, don't worry. The official site will be posting it.