Titanic
Directed by : James Cameron
Written by : James Cameron
Produced by : James Cameron and Jon Landau
Starring
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater
Billy Zane as Caledon Hockley
Kathy Bates as Margaret "Molly" Brown
Frances Fisher as Ruth DeWitt Bukater ( Rose's mother
Bernard Hill as Captain Edward John Smith
Jonathan Hyde as J. Bruce Ismay
Danny Nucci as Fabrizio
David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy
Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett
Gloria Stuart as Rose Dawson Calvert ( old Rose)
Suzy Amis as Lizzy Calvert ( Rose's granddaughter)
Jason Barry as Tommy Ryan
Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews
Eric Braeden as John Jacob Astor IV
Cinematography : Russell Carpenter
Edited by:Conrad Buff ,James Cameron andRichard A. Harris
Music by :James Horner
Production
companies
Paramount Pictures
20th Century Fox
Lightstorm Entertainment
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
(North America)
20th Century Fox
(International)
Release dates
November 1, 1997 (Tokyo)
December 19, 1997 (United States)
Cameron's inspiration for the film came from his fascination with shipwrecks; he felt a love story interspersed with the human loss would be essential to convey the emotional impact of the disaster. Production began on September 1, 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the actual Titanic wreck.
The film was co-financed by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox; the former handled distribution in North America while the latter released the film internationally. It was the most expensive film ever made at the time, with a production budget of $200 million. Filming took place from July 1996 to March 1997.
A 3D re-release version of Titanic, released on April 4, 2012, to commemorate the centennial of the sinking, as well as further re-releases earned it an additional $405 million worldwide, pushing the film's worldwide total to $2.249 billion and making it the second film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide (after Avatar).