Kathy Bates
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Diffusion à la télévision
Le film rencontre un grand succès à la télévision française où les audiences restent élevées malgré la durée du film ainsi que sa large exploitation aucinéma et en vidéo.En novembre 2001, lors de sa première diffusion en clair (hors Canal+), sur deux soirées sur TF1, le film a été vu par 7,7 millions pour sa première partie (32,3 % de part d'audience - PDA) et 8,2 millions pour la deuxième (34,2 % de PDA).
La deuxième diffusion en novembre 2004 a rassemblé 6,6 millions de téléspectateurs (34,1 % de PDA).
La troisième en mai 2007 a réuni un peu plus de 7 millions de téléspectateurs (35,8 % de PDA)
La quatrième, qui fut concomitante avec la sortie en 3D au cinéma en avril 2012, a attiré presque 6,2 millions de téléspectateurs sur France 2 (26,4 % de PDA — en tête des audiences de la soirée). Pourtant, 5 jours plus tôt, France 2 avait déjà diffusé un docufiction sur le Titanic en début de soirée (13,8 % de PDA — 3e sur la tranche horaire).
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TRIVIA (suite)
-That's real Beluga caviar in the first class dining room sequence. After sampling it, Jonathan Hyde said he "made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater".
-The first class lounge was deemed to be too expensive a set to be built. As a miniature of it was required for the flooding scenes, one was built to quarter of the real size. This was then greenscreened as background for the scenes where the actors were seen sitting in the lounge.
-Mark Lindsay Chapman was fired and rehired twice, and survived an accident where he was struck by a boat and had to be pulled from the water.
-On the set of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio's pet lizard was run over by a truck, but with some TLC, Leo nursed him to health.
-The most expensive first-class suite on the Titanic cost $4,350, the equivalent of about $75,000 today.
James Cameron forfeited his $8 million director's salary and his percentage of the gross when the studio became concerned at how much over budget the movie was running.
-When James Cameron was writing the movie, he intended for the main characters Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson to be entirely fictitious. It was only after the script was finished that he discovered that there had been a real "J. Dawson" who died aboard the Titanic. This "J. Dawson" was trimmer Joseph Dawson, who had been born September 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. His body was salvaged and buried at Fairview Lawn cemetery in Nova Scotia with many other Titanic victims. Today, his grave stone (#227) is the most widely visited in the cemetery.
-As is the case with many 20th Century Fox films, the film cans for the advance screening and show prints had a code name. Titanic's was "Baby's Day Out 2."
-In 1998 it became the first film since 1966 to win the Oscar for Best Picture but not be nominated for its screenplay (the previous film to hold this "honor" was La mélodie du bonheur.
-Titanic is the most Oscar-nominated film (with 14 nominations) not to win in any acting categories.
-Gloria Stuart was the only person who worked in the production of the film who was actually living in 1912.
-This was the first movie to win both the Academy and MTV Movie Award for Best Picture.
-Came eighth in the UK's Ultimate Film, in which films were placed in order of how many seats they sold at cinemas.
-Early in production, this film's brief "decoy" working title was "Planet Ice".
-One of three films to win a total of 11 Academy Awards, the others being Ben-Hur and Le seigneur des anneaux - Le retour du roi.
-A number of scènes are arranged and in some cases scripted almost identically to similar sequences in Atlantique, latitude 41°. This is particularly true of these scenes:
- Thomas Andrews telling Capt. Smith the sinking is "a mathematical certainty";
- The Titanic's band preparing to depart at the end, only to turn around and regroup as Hartley begins playing "Nearer My God to Thee" by himself (though a different version of the song is used in the 1958 film).
- A shot of Ismay in a lifeboat as the Titanic sinks behind him.
- Thomas Andrews looking at a painting as Titanic prepares to sink - Andrews encountering a man by the Grand Staircase and telling him the ship is doomed (in this film, he tells Rose).
-Was the highest grossing film in box office history with a worldwide gross of US$1.8 billion until it was surpassed by Avatar. Both films were directed by James Cameron.
-The drawing Jack made entitled "Lady Bijou" wasn't really just any picture. They got the idea from an old 1933 photograph taken by Brassai called "Bijou".
-The film was initially budgeted at $135,000,000, but going two months over schedule required asking Paramount Pictures to contribute an additional $65,000,000 in exchange for U.S. distribution rights.
-Shay Duffin, who played the pubkeeper in England, is related to one of the original Irish workers who built the Titanic.
-The original release date was 25 July 1997. When Harrison Ford, whose upcoming film, Air Force One, was scheduled to be released the same day, found out, he demanded that Paramount push the release date to a different time. Paramount, who had distributed many successful films of Ford's agreed, being worried that Ford would never do another film for them again.
