Solid Snake

Meh shirt. I like your rack though.

kd5

I never cared about Titanic in the first place (couldn't believe what all the hype was about after I saw it), I'll care for it even less in 3D. -kd5-

RoadToPerdition

foofighters7 is a chick? Well if that ain't the mindfuck of the year...

Solid Snake

whoa whoa...too early to call that...how's the mgb83 thread going?

My Other Self

If foofighters7 is indeed a female, I suggest this thread be put in to Otter and we beg for pics.

nickdawgy

So how long will this take to reach a billion?

covenant

coli

Loved Titanic, but just like the Star Wars movies, I will not be seeing them in the theaters in 3D. I hope these movies tank at the box office so this fad goes away.

TomOpus

Star Wars 3D did over $100 million at the box office. And that was for the hated EP1. Not sure if they consider it a success or not.

Just imagine what EP4 will do once they get to it.

Kal-El

fixed.

And for the record, I'm planning to see this. Probably at least 2x

Matthew Chmiel

The conversion probably cost less than $10 million to make alongside advertising (no prints were needed as the film was digital only). Put it together and the entire cost Fox and LucasFilm had to pay was somewhere around $20 to $30 million for a re-release that has done just shy of $100 million worldwide.

Everyone made money, but not as much as they were looking forward to. The film did 10% of what the film's 1999 release did.

$431 million domestically in 1999, $43 million in 2012.
$550 million worldwide in 1999, $55 million in 2012.

Beauty and the Beast, which had its second re-release, actually preformed better domestically than TPM... and it was commercially available months prior on Blu-ray 3D.

Titanic is going to be interesting as it was the highest grossing film for twelve years. While they might not know that James Cameron approved every single shot for its 3D conversion and cost $18 million over the course of a year to put together, audiences do know that he's all about the spectacle and might look past their hatred of 3D post-conversions to check it out. The scenes I've seen in IMAX 3D look gorgeous, so I'm curious to see what the whole film looks like.

TomOpus

Do you think they made enough on EP1 to do EP2? I thought I read they would continue if EP1 made enough money.

I think Titanic will be pretty big. One thing I thought might be against it would be the long running time. Some just can't take 3D for 30 mins let alone close to 3 hours. Avatar was a huge hit and it had a long running time (162 mins) but Titanic is 30 mins longer.

resinrats

Lucasfilm tripled their investment on Ep1 on the film itself. Add in the side merchandise $$ and the eventual Ep1 3D Blu-ray release and Lucasfilm should be pretty happy. Seems they would move on to Ep2.

I see ABC is airing their Titanic movie next week hoping to cash in on Cameron's movie.

Matthew Chmiel

As resinrats mentioned, Lucas probably made more off the merchandise than the theatrical release itself.

The problem with TPM is not only most consider it to be a shitty movie, but the 3D conversion was pretty shitty too. AOTC is regarded to be just as much of a shitty movie as TPM, so it'll be interesting if more people show up or less. My money is on less (just look at the original box office take of TPM vs. AOTC, but also the 1997 re-releases of ANH vs. TESB).

LucasFilm and Fox should've started with the original trilogy first. They would've made gangbusters and pulled in enough profit from the theatrical releases alone that it would've covered the prequels if they were all box office failures.

However, they're using the original digital masters to create the 3D versions of the films. Cameron at least knows better and did a 4K restoration of Titanic before going to work on the 3D edition.

Fuck. I hate George Lucas.

Shannon Nutt

There's two differences here: a)James Cameron is overseeing the 3D conversion and b)this is getting an IMAX release. I bet you this looks MUCH better in 3D than PHANTOM MENACE did.

Supermallet

Are any film IMAX theaters actually showing Titanic? We told our theater to pass on it, because we didn't want to have 30-40 minute intermissions where we swapped out the platters every single show.

Giles

^ oh so it is being released in IMAX 15/70 - I thought the running time would have made it an IMAX-Digital only release.

Solid Snake

I would have assumed Lucas oversaw the 3D. Did he not? Confirmation please?

Supermallet

Cameron doesn't have to consider things like run time. He just says run it in 70mm and people don't tell him no.

Matthew Chmiel

The visual effects supervisor oversaw the 3D conversion. Lucas just gave a thumbs up and went back to counting his pile of cash.

Bluelitespecial

i know the sinking would be cool to see. but there is no way i would go see a 3hr movie in 3d.

Nickee

According to this article, Cameron made only one alteration to the film for the 3D release:

It’s happened to all of us: You’re happily coasting along watching a movie you’re thoroughly enjoying, when up pops a glaring error that zaps you out of the movie and has you fuming to your friends as you exit the theater. At which point, you realize you were the only person to notice this so-called “error,” and all your friends think you’re a crank who totally missed the point of the movie and wish you would just shut up about it already.

The difference between you and Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is that the famed astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York was actually able to do something about it. Upon seeing Titanic in the theater, Dr. Tyson became incensed after Kate Winslet, delirious and nearly frozen in the black Atlantic ocean, looked up at the night sky and saw the wrong set of stars for that specific time and place. Apparently, astrophysicists can tell you exactly what night sky looked like in the north Atlantic in the wee hours of April 15, 1912, and that’s exactly what Dr. Tyson did. He sent a letter to James Cameron. Five years later, he cornered Cameron at an event and lodged his complaint once more. A few years after that, he brought it up again at an intimate dinner party with Cameron. And now, this Wednesday, Titanic will be hitting theaters in 3-D, with no other alterations to the film except that now, Rose Dawson will be looking up at the same stars those doomed Titanic passengers saw that fateful night.

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/04/02/po...tanic-starmap/

RocShemp

Although I will not be seeing this movie ever again (I hated it far too much the first and last time), I must admit the 3D conversion I saw in the trailer looked very well done.

bluetoast

After clicking through to the article about the stars, they had the Youtube vid of the guy telling that story....and now I'm watching the rest of it, he's pretty entertaining. The Titanic stuff is at around the 24 minute mark.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CAD25s53wmE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Supermallet

Talked to a projectionist at another IMAX yesterday. 114 reels for Titanic. They had to get a second platter system in to run it. Ridiculous.