For the movie lovers of the country, Star Cineplex brings one of the most popular romantic saga “Titanic” in 3D from October 11, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the movie theatre Cineplex. This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line’s $7.5m RMS Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912.
Made with the combined contributions of two major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more than $200m, Titanic ranked as the most expensive film in Hollywood history at the time of its release.
Writer-director James Cameron employed state-of-the-art digital special effects for this production, realized on a monumental scale and spanning eight decades. Inspired by the 1985 discovery of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, the contemporary storyline involves American treasure-seeker Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) retrieving artifacts from the submerged ship. Lovett looks for diamonds but finds a drawing of a young woman, nude except for a necklace.
When 102-year-old Rose (Gloria Stuart) reveals she’s the person in the portrait, she is summoned to the wreckage site to tell her story of the 56-carat diamond necklace and her experiences of 84 years earlier. The scene then shifts to 1912 Southampton where passengers boarding the Titanic include penniless Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and society girl Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), returning to Philadelphia with her wealthy fiancé Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). After the April 10th launch, Rose develops a passionate interest in Jack and Cal’s reaction is vengeful. At midpoint in the film, the Titanic slides against the iceberg and water rushes into the front compartments.
Cal continues to pursue Jack and Rose as the massive liner begins its descent. Cameron launched the project after seeing Robert Ballard’s 1987 National Geographic documentary on the wreckage. Blueprints of the real Titanic were followed during construction at Fox’s custom-built Rosarito, Mexico studio, where a hydraulic system moved an immense model in a 17-million-gallon water tank.
On November 1, 1997, the film had its world premiere at the 10th Tokyo International Film Festival.