It’s a movie that held the illustrious honour of being the highest grossing film of all time for 12 years, won a record 11 Academy Awards, and launched the careers of both Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception) and Kate Winslet (Finding Neverland), and film fans will soon get the chance to re-watch James Cameron’s (Avatar) classic movie on the big screen again; when Titanic is re-released next year in 3D.
2012 marks an important date for not only the film (15 years after its initial release in 1997), and Paramount Pictures (the studio which distributed Titanic in the US, and will celebrate its centennial next year), but also marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic; on April 15th; making it a perfect, and poignant, time to re-release this much loved movie.
However, not content with simply re-issuing the film in its former state, Titanic will be re-released in 3D, after a conversion that Cameron describes a “painstaking process” has been completed; in order to make the film, and its imagery, “more powerful than ever”, and “an epic experience for fans and newcomers alike.”
Cameron’s keen to re-issue the film, as he’s pointed out “there’s a whole generation that’s never seen Titanic as it was meant to be seen; on the big screen”, and will be see it re-released worldwide on April 6th 2012 (four days before the anniversary of the day the ill-fated voyage began, and nine days before the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic).
Matt Wheeldon.
Source: Deadline.
