It wasn’t just the movie. The soundtrack of the film remained for 9 weeks at the top of the rankingsbeating Madonna’s release with her “Material Girl” album.
A year later, “Titanic”, with an investment of just over 200 million dollars, he won no less than 11 Oscars (something that only “Ben Hur” and “The Lord of the Rings” achieved in Hollywood).
Other successes around the Titanic
The film saga around the ocean liner began very close to that night in 1912, with Étienne Arnaud’s Saved From The Titanic, a silent film from that year in which Dorothy Gibson, a real survivor, plays herself.
German cinema proposed its own version, “The tragedy of the Titanic”, released in 1943 and directed by Herbert Selpin, and a decade later Hollywood took advantage of the catastrophe in a big way with “The sinking of the Titanic”, by Jean Negulesco, that takes the ship as a set for a soap opera headed by Barbara Stanwyck.
Five years later, American cinema once again steered the ship in “The Last Night of the Titanic” (1958), by the unknown Rod Ward Baker, with Kenneth Moore, Honor Blackman, a very young David McCallum (the Illya Kuryakin of “Agent of CIPOL), Ronald Allen and Michael Goodliffe.
From a fiction, Hollywood took up the matter this time with a little more technical sophistication, despite the fact that CGI animation did not yet exist, with “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972), a film by Ronald Neame, which was a box office success worldwide (125 million dollars), won two Oscars and had a sequel with “Beyond Poseidon” (1979), by Irwin Allen.
In 1980, “Rescue the Titanic”, by Jay Jameson, was known, a real mess that became an economic failure, which strengthens the patience of James Cameron who took his time and patiently waited for technology to allow him the best special effects to shape the event of the aforementioned “Titanic” (1997).
More recently, the topic continued to float thanks to the telefilm “Britannic” (2000), by Bryan Trenchard-Smith, the documentary “Mysteries of the Titanic” (2003), also by James Cameron, and a new version of “The Poseidon Adventure” (2005) for television.
Finally, in 2006 Wolfgang Petersen released “Poseidon”, with Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss and Argentina’s Mia Maestro, and two unsuccessful animations of Italian origin but in co-production with Spain and the United States: “The Legend of Titanic” (1999), by Orlando Corradi and Kim J. Ok, and “Titanic: The Legend Goes On” (2000), by Camilo Teti.
Source: Ambito
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