Titanic 3D 2012 in April,Titanic Part II

Titanic 3D 2012,Titanic 2

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After shattering his own box office record with Avatar, James Cameron is looking to bring the previous box office title holder Titanic back to the big screen, but with one major difference...3D. The director recently sat down with USA Today to talk about the big ship and its cinematic counterpart.

3D was certainly climbing up the ladder of popularity among theater goers in recent years, but it wasn't until Cameron came along and did it right that the populace accepted the revamped technology into their lives. Of course, converting Titanic won't be the same as if the film had been shot for 3D, but the director is confident that with the amount of time they have until their targeted release, this conversion will be done right.

"They're converting Clash of the Titans in eight weeks. But I'm guessing six months to a year to do it right. We're targeting spring of 2012 for the release [of a 3D version of Titanic], which is the 100 year anniversary of the sailing of the ship."

The down side to this news is that we'll have to wait so long to see just what this conversion will look like. Adding 3D to a film that wasn't shot for it, like Clash of the Titans, is a shameless attempt to take more of your hard earned dollars, especially in the case of Clash taking only two months to do it. The term "half-assed" comes to mind. It would be nice to see the Titanic release arrive to port ahead of schedule and show us all what a real 3D conversion should look like. Here's hoping for no icebergs along the way.

James Cameron ’s Titanic was an unprecedented box office smash when it hit theaters all the way back in 1997. The film also launched the careers of both Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet ; ended up snagging a record eleven Academy Awards at the 1998 Oscars ceremony; and remains the second-highest grossing theatrical release of all time – behind Cameron’s other ultra-expensive must massively popular project, Avatar (ignoring inflation adjustments, of course).

Cameron and Michael Bay recently opened up about the current state (and future) of 3D cinema, a bit of filmmaking technology that the latter was vehemently opposed to at first – prior to his change of heart while making Transformers: Dark of the Moon. So Titanic will provide an opportunity for Cameron to prove what he preaches: that converting older films not originally conceived for the 3D format is actually a good idea.

Titanic 3D is scheduled for theatrical release on April 6th, 2012, in order to coincide with the 100th anniversary of both the actual Titanic’s maiden voyage (the ship set sail on April 10th, 1912) and the formation of Paramount Pictures.

That means Cameron’s original big-budget epic will actually hit theaters a few months after another late ’90s blockbuster returns to the big screen in theoretically glorious 3D – namely,
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

Regardless of your feelings about the love story at the heart of Titanic, there’s no denying that it was a visually impressive epic when it first hit the scene back in 1997. The combination of (then) cutting-edge CGI and an actual, large-scale set that was constructed with meticulous attention to historical detail, worked to bring the famous sea vessel to life in an unprecedented fashion. However, while the practical sets and costumes of Titanic still hold up, nowadays the film’s digital imagery is noticeably dated and looks all the more distinctly “fake.” So will the movie as a whole look better or worse in 3D?

The Phantom Menace is arguably better positioned to benefit from the 3D format than Titanic, simply because so much of the Star Wars prequel is just CGI – and the conversion of digital visuals into 3D is both easier and more natural (since the images are already three-dimensional, essentially) than the same process for live-action 2D footage. On the other hand: Cameron will undoubtedly make sure the 3D version of Titanic looks as good as possible, and the cinematography of the historical epic is (generally speaking) innately more immersive than that of The Phantom Menace. Take that as you will.

Cast:

• Shane Van Dyke like Hayden Walsh
• Marie Westbrook like Amy Maine
• Bruce Davison like James Maine
• D.C. Douglas like Captain Will Howard
• Dylan Vox like Dwayne Stevens
• Wittly Jourdan like Elijia Stacks
• Myles Cranford like Admiral Wes Hadley
• Brooke Burns like Dr. Kim Patterson
• Michelle Glavan like Kelly Wade
• Carey Van Dyke like Elmer Coolidge

DVD cover for Titanic II

• Country: - United States
• Directed by: - Shane Van Dyke
• Produced by: - David Michael Latt

                               - David Rimawi
                               - Paul Bales
                               - Tim Ubels

• Written by: - Shane Van Dyke
• Language: - English
• Starring: - Bruce Davison

                        - Brooke Burns
                        - Shane Van Dyke
                        - Marie Westbrook

• Editing by: - Mark Atkins
• Distributed by: - The Asylum
• Release date(s) April, 2012
• Cinematography: - Alexander Yellen
• Running time: - 90 minutes

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