When is a 25th anniversary not quite a 25th anniversary?
This Valentine’s Day, our hearts will go on back to theaters for the re-release ofTitanic.
In a new interview with SiriusXM’sThe Jess Cagle Show, the filmmaker explained the reasoning behind the date decision.
James Cameron and Leonardo Dicaprio on the set of ‘Titanic’.Merie W. Wallace/20th Century Fox
He continued: “Then the question was, ‘Okay, what’s the date?’
I think it was Dec. 16.
But the highest-grossing single day of the release was Valentine’s Day.”
(Titanic, in fact, opened in the U.S. on Dec. 19, 1997.)
So it’s a celebration of love.
It’s a celebration of the movie, at the same time.
And it’s a celebration of the success of the movie as well.
So, yeah."
For those reasons,Titanicwill be back on the big screen starting Friday, Feb. 10.
The only new element is the addition of Atmos sound, which wasn’t available at that time.
“So it’s just a little more fuller and a little more around you,” he said.
“But we haven’t changed a frame of the movie.
There’s no Easter eggs or little, you know, end-credit sequence.
We don’t have to tease another movie.”
The Jess Cagle Showairs Monday-Friday at 2 p.m.
ET on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy.
