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The film was very expensive to produce.<ref name=Pittsburgh1998-04-07> | |||
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| title = Titanic bound to sink Hollywood in an endless sea of lousy scripts | |||
| publisher = Pittsburgh Post Express | |||
| author = Kenneth Turan | |||
| date = 1998-04-07 | |||
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Gloom-mongers, citing rumors of acrimony on the set, budget over-runs, and missed schedules, predicted disaster.<ref name=MountAiryNews1997-04-28> | |||
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| title = The Film Titanic in Big Financial Trouble | |||
| publisher = Mount Airy News | |||
| date = 1997-04-28 | |||
| page = 7 | |||
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They predicted that the only way the film could break even if it turned out to be the highest grossing film in history. | |||
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Revision as of 19:45, 15 July 2012
Titanic was a popular 1997 film set aboard the RMS Titanic on her first and fatal voyage.[1] The film was very expensive to produce.[2] Gloom-mongers, citing rumors of acrimony on the set, budget over-runs, and missed schedules, predicted disaster.[3] They predicted that the only way the film could break even if it turned out to be the highest grossing film in history.
References
- ↑ Tim Cornwell. A film to remember, The Independent, 1998-01-11. Retrieved on 2012-07-15. “It may well turn out to be an epic phenomenon, quite apart from being the most extravagant movie ever made - perhaps the last of its kind.”
- ↑ Kenneth Turan. Titanic bound to sink Hollywood in an endless sea of lousy scripts, Pittsburgh Post Express, 1998-04-07, p. 25. Retrieved on 2012-07-15.
- ↑ The Film Titanic in Big Financial Trouble, Mount Airy News, 1997-04-28, p. 7. Retrieved on 2012-07-15.