Yesterday, exactly twenty years ago, the classic movie Titanic premiered in the United States. That's why RTL Boulevard puts facts and figures about the movie online.
Small group:
- The film cost $200 million to make and grossed over $2 billion.
- To produce the film, a brand new 150,000-square-foot studio was built in Mexico.
- Won 11 Oscars
- The film cost more to make than it did to build the ship in 1912.
- It wasn't Leonardo DiCaprio we almost saw in the movie, because Matthew McConaughey was actually cast as Jack.
- The legendary phrase “I am the king of the world” was not in the text but arose spontaneously.
Back to the movies
The classic film is set to be released again next month in a number of theaters in the United States. The disaster film is scheduled to be shown for a week in 87 theaters to mark the 20th anniversary of director James Cameron's film.
The epic tells the love story between a simple immigrant (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a married girl (Kate Winslet) during the only voyage of the Titanic in April 1912. The second half of the film consists of a reconstruction of the collision with an iceberg and the sinking of the ship. The film won a record 11 Oscars in 1998.
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