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How James Cameron Pumped Volume Into Titanic

Posted by timothy on from the really-big-hose dept.

MrSeb writes with ExtremeTech's account of how director (and deep sea explorer) James Cameron spent a reported $18 million converting his blockbuster movie, Titantic, to 3D. The article "looks at the primary way of managing depth in 3D films (parallax), how you add depth to a movie that was originally filmed in 2D, and some of the software (both computer and human-brain) difficulties that Cameron had to overcome in the more-than-two-year process to convert Titanic into 3D."

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  1. Wonderful, but... by Brooklynoid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...who really wanted to see Titanic in 3D?

    1. Re:Wonderful, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Everyone's wife, mother, sister, girlfriend, etc.

    2. Re:Wonderful, but... by Ironhandx · · Score: 5, Informative

      Thats more creative accounting than anything. It cost 208 million, marketing, accounting, everything included.

      Hollywood companies publish the real numbers in their shareholders reports, one of which happened directly before the titanic movie was released in theatres.

      It was only after the fact that they came up with the other shit. Like they always do.

      If you talk to anyone, ever, who was due a cut of profits in hollywood, they'll tell you their film lost money. Yet somehow Warner, Universal, Sony etc manage to stay in business and have so much cash that they can spend upwards of 100m a year just on people to talk to people in washington.

      If you look at the records, almost every single film they produce loses money. The ones that don't make a very meager profit.

    3. Re:Wonderful, but... by aztektum · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not my wife or girlfriend, thankfully.

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    4. Re:Wonderful, but... by MDillenbeck · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd much rather see Rodents of Unusual Size in 3D.... but then again, they don't exist. ;)

    5. Re:Wonderful, but... by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh, it's there. Love the updated soundtrack.

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  2. Re:Depth by RussR42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought depth was kind of the problem... The Titanic had too much.

  3. Re:Most importantly, are Kate Winslet's tits in 3d by NoSleepDemon · · Score: 5, Funny

    My wife made me go see it with her. For the record, they were glorious.

  4. Re:shit as slashdot by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    The more I use slashdot the more I think it's turning into shit

    I wish there was something anything better

    Any recommendations out there? Anonymous responses are ok. Thanx much.

    Have you tried Slashdot 3D?

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