RUSSIA: JAMES CAMERON TAKES HIS EPIC FILM "TITANIC" TO A LITTLE KNOWN RUSSIAN SEA PORT FOR A SPECIAL SCREENING

Record ID: 227590

  • Title: RUSSIA: JAMES CAMERON TAKES HIS EPIC FILM "TITANIC" TO A LITTLE KNOWN RUSSIAN SEA PORT FOR A SPECIAL SCREENING
  • Date: 11th February 1998
  • Summary: KALININGRAD, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 6, 1998) (REUTERS) JAMES CAMERON SAYING, "I DON'T THINK WE EXPECTED THE FILM TO BE BOTH A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS AND CRITICAL SUCCESS WHICH IT HAS BEEN WHICH IS A VERY UNUSUAL BEAST. I DIDN'T SET OUT TO DO THAT..IT'S THE ICING ON THE CAKE." (ENGLISH) CAMERON SAYING, "I NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING IN THE FILM BUT CERTAINLY THE STRESS LEVEL IS NCREASED DRAMATICALLY WHEN THE BUGET OVERRUNS, BUT THIS IS NOT A NEW THING FOR ME... WE DID IT IN THE ABYSS, TERMINATOR II, ON TRUE LIES. PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABPUT THE BUDGET. WHAT THIS HAS TAUGHT ME IS THE AUDIENCE DOESN'T CARE, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE BUDGET. IT DOESN'T HURT THE FILM AT ALL. LOOK AT "TITANIC". THIS FILM HAS HAD MORE NEGATIVE PRESS ABOUT BUDGET THAN ANY OTHER FILM AND IT'S GOING TO BE THE HIGHEST GROSSING FILM IN HISTORY." (ENGLISH) PEOPLE STANDING OUTSIDE CINEMA BEFORE SCREENING POSTER FOR "TITANIC" CAMERON ARRIVING AT SCREENING CAMERON INSIDE CINEMA 20TH CENTURY FOX TECHNICIANS FIXING THE PROJECTION EQUIPMENT
  • Embargoed: 26th February 1998 12:00
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  • Location: KALININGRAD, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA9E2RRK47T6KU1GXCFLVWR9UB8
  • Story Text: James Cameron, director of the 14-times Oscar-nominated "Titanic", has taken his epic film to a little know Russian sea port for a special screening.
    The director travelled to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea on the weekend (February 6) to show his 200 million US dollar production to the local scientists who helped make the film's underwater shoots a reality.
    The underwater pictures of the real "Titanic" were taken from the deep water submersibles Mir-1 and Mir-2 which are based on the "Mstislav Keldysh" scientific vessel.
    Scientists from the "Mstislav Keldysh" were the first Russians to see Cameron's film.
    The director went to Kaliningrad for the first time in 1992 to discuss with scientists from the Kaliningrad Institute of Oceanology the possibilities of using their technology in the film.It was the beginning of a journey which led to their collaboration on "Titanic".
    The economic chaos of post-Soviet Russia hit the research team of "Mstislav Keldysh" hard and their equipment began to deteriorate after years of little use.
    A telephone call from James Cameron in 1994 giving the go-ahead to work on the film changed that.
    Kaliningrad lies between Lithuania and Poland.Formerly part of Germany, the enclave became Russian territory after the World War II.
    The city's biggest movie theatre was hastily upgraded to make the viewing of "Titanic" possible.A team of 20th Century Fox technicians took their own projection and audio equipment to Kaliningrad to ensure the people of Kaliningrad saw the movie at its best.
    The story about the "ship of dreams" that struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic has already become a box office sensation around the globe.
    The film officially premiered in Moscow on Monday (February 9).
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