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~ Titanic Previous News ~ August 17 - September 13 September 21 - November 9 November 11 - Current 6-17-97 Paramount's official statement on the move to push-back Titanic to December 19th. Pete's Titanic Page launches on the internet bringing you all the latest info from this winter's biggest film. 6-19 Apparently the cut of Titanic is now at 5 hours. There must be massive amounts of excess 2nd unit stuff, and crowd scenes. Probably alot of the lessor characters will be made less. Work is also being done to ensure a new awesome trailer will hit theaters this Summer. Well it seems that Cameron has already decided what to do
after Titanic finally wraps. 6-23 Turns out that Cameron is pretty sated by the music Horner is composing for his opus. However, and there is always a "however" with James, there is a problem. About 1200 seconds of synthesizer work and about 105 minutes of the full orchestral stuff aren't quite up to snuff yet. By the way, there will be alot of period instruments in this music. You will be happy to know, they are working it out. However, before this episode with Horner, Enya and Cameron had an ummm... unpleasant coexistance. Turns out that Cameron had went to Enya very early on about contributing some music to TITANIC. He then proceeded to cut sequences using some of her existing tracks. In fact at SHOWEST the reel shown to exhibitors had some of this music. The Showest reel was basically cut down for the trailer we have all seen. Well guess what, Cameron in all that time had never contacted Enya once. He had just taken on the assumption that it was a done deal. Enya did not. She knew Horner was composing for the film, and had assumed that she didn't get the gig. So, just a few days before the trailer was to be finished, she refused to allow the use of her music, which was to figure prominently in the first half of the trailer. Phone calls and legal discussions flew faster than, well a sinking ship. Finally, with little to no time left, Horner was brought in to compose some tracks especially for the trailer we all know and love. However, if you listen closely, real closely, listen for the tell tale Enya-ish synth voices during the launching sequence. There is a ghost of the sound. From: Harry Knowles 6-26 That 5 hour cut is no longer. There is now in existance a 3 & 1/2 hour long cut. You advance screening folks in the world be attentive. If they have a cut this long (which is how long I have heard the film is targeted to be) then they might try to pull a screening soon. I'm dying to hear the exclamations of "BRILLIANT", and will be heartbroken if word is any less. I'm still in mourning over the fact that it's a week before when it was supposed to be released. I really wanted to spend the fourth, on the Titanic, now I'll have to settle on a pre-birthday engagement. 7-4 Titanic will be released on December 18th in Australia, and taking into account the time difference, it means the film's first sessions will be a good 36 hours before the US. From: Dark Horizons All I can say is, who is going down under with me on the 18th? 7-5 Cameron has screened Titanic at 3hours and 45minutes. However, when Cameron got out of the screening he added another 50 shots. One of the sequences that is being reshot is just to change the way the scene ends. Sounds like fine tuning to me. Nothing major. From: Harry Knowles 7-10 Most studios tend to downplay the cost of their movies, but 20th Century Fox plans to spin the ballooned cost of Titanic to its advantage when the picture is released internationally later this year. The maritime disaster picture cost about $200 million to make. Prints and advertising are expected to run another $35 million, and Fox's international marketing budget is thought to be about $25 million. "In the U.K., we will not try to fight the perception that the film is too expensive," Fox's U.K. marketing manager, Tomas Jegeus, told Daily Variety. "We know we have a great film and people will see all of the money is up on the screen." While short on specifics regarding the promotional campaign, Jegeus said the picture seems to have a minimum of computer-generated effects -- unusual for director James Cameron. He screened a trailer that emphasizes the love story between the characters played by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio over the spectacle of the Titanic disaster. "Everyone knows the ship is going to sink," Jegeus explained. From: Daily Variety 8-1 Digital Domain has reduced its 300-member work force by 10% following completion of visual effects work for James Cameron's Titanic. "This is part of the normal fluctuations of this business," Digital Domain chief Scott Ross told Daily Variety. At the peak of production at the Venice-based company partly owned by Cameron, Digital Domain's roster numbered close to 1,000 workers toiling on Titanic, Dante's Peak and The Fifth Element, including full-time and project employees. Those laid off were full-timers. From: Daily Variety 8-3 My close friend Bert branson and I are huge Cameron fans and are awaiting the great film's release. Anyway now to the good part.Titanic has been seen. I am not kidding you in any way. It was recently shown at a preview screening (a very rough cut of the film however) and was given an overwhelming thumbs up and is the tip for Oscar night despite it not haveing been released theatrically yet. Many respected crtitcs were there and they loved it, all of them. Yes that's right all of them. 210 minutes of film magic is Titanic. The effects are mind boggling and the film very tense and exciting according to reports from people lucky enough to be there. For the final word visit 'Josh's James Cameron Website' and see for yourself. Nathan White (An Aussie James Cameron fan). 8-7 Lightstorm is expecting completion of TITANIC in mid-september. Their currently deciding the rating for the movie. They have this huge list of movies that are PG-13 they have to find the nude scenes in them to compare them to the nude scene with Winslet. Leonardo is painting a picture of Winslet who happens to be topliss. The rating is basically the thing they're working on for the movie. Their main concern now is working on the Titanic book. Things are kind of slow now in the production part of the movie. The editing is doing the finishing touches. Cameron is also editing it himself. His equipment has just been recently moved to his recently wed Wife's home, (he married Linda Hamilton about two weeks ago) although there will be another screening. It might be on Sunday. For the editors their main goal is to cut the movie down to 3 hours and 15 minutes. 8-17 The lucky ticket holders last Tuesday venturing into the Lloyd Cinemas in downtown Portland found themselves at Titanic. I won't be posting reviews, because well they mirrored the reviews from the first screening, except for one thing. Apparently the editing that Cameron and crew have been hammering away on, resulted in no complates about the opening draging, which some Twin City folks said in their reviews. All the word is good and honest thus far. The film was still a ways from being complete, but audiences seem to be reacting very well. From: Harry Knowles 8-26 Word is that Celine Dion has recorded a song for the end credits of TITANIC that was written by Horner. It is also known that those in the know that have heard it have enjoyed it. Hmmmmmm. Also Mr. Cameron has added 40 new effects shots of people breathing visibly. You know, that cool foggy breath. It should look pretty if bathed in Cameron blue lights. Also that yodeller from the mountain sang tale of the removal of a fight between the Lovejoy character and Jack's character. This is a bit sad, because it is during this fight scene that one reviewer described a hauntingly beautiful shot in the dining room watching plates float up like porcelian rafts, while the world around them sinks. From: Harry Knowles 8-31 Titanic now has a rating and it will be PG-13. Click here to see for yourself. 9-13 I went to a screening of In & Out tonight and the first trailer before the movie was an updated version of the Titanic trailer. This isn't a "brand new" trailer, it's really the same one with a bunch of new effects shots. Let me just say that Digital Domain & ILM earned their money. First, here's how to tell if you are actually seeing the new trailer. Soon after the shot where we see Kate and the ship for the first time you will see (very briefly as all the shots are) the ship coming right at you. Similiar to this picture. Then there are a few new shots of the entire ship sailing along at night mixed inbetween the same scenes we saw in the first trailer. Then when Titanic hits the iceburg the destruction scene there lasts a little longer. Now the real fun begins. Before we just saw people running and a few people falling into the water. Now there is an added scene of a close-up of a single man falling, floors inside the ship being crushed together and at the end (you'll love this) you will actually see the ship break in two!! Then, instead of just seeing the back of the ship rise into the air, you will see it crash into the water! Unless you want your urges to see this film increase by a factor of 100, don't go see this trailer. |
