This
spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star
Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15,
1912. Running over three hours and made with the combined contributions of two
major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more than $200
million, Titanic ranked as the most expensive film in Hollywood history at the
time of its release, and became the most successful.
Writer-director
James Cameron employed state-of-the-art digital special effects for this
production, realized on a monumental scale and spanning eight decades. Inspired
by the 1985 discovery of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, the contemporary
storyline involves American treasure-seeker Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton)
retrieving artifacts from the submerged ship. Lovett looks for diamonds but
finds a drawing of a young woman, nude except for a necklace.
The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures'
three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster The Millennium
Trilogy. Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara,
the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold
50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon.
