Word: dicaprio
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...director had busted budgets before (on The Abyss, Terminator II, True Lies). But his pictures have grossed more than $1 billion, all told. So Fox was moved at once to green-light his tale of young lovers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) who meet aboard the ill-fated ship. It's seen through the eyes of an elderly survivor of the 1912 disaster (Gloria Stuart), who recounts her ordeal to treasure hunters (led by Bill Paxton) seeking a jewel believed to be submerged in the wreck...
...Paramount president John Goldwyn called Fox to inquire if Paramount might step in. Paramount had teamed with Fox on Braveheart, Mel Gibson's epic, with the happiest of results: good box office, Oscars. Paramount's tough but charming chairman, Sherry Lansing, had concerns. Could a young star like DiCaprio carry a film this big? And the $100 million budget seemed low. But that Sunday afternoon, Fox executive Tom Rothman eloquently persuaded Lansing that Titanic would be an epic on a par with Doctor Zhivago or Gone With the Wind. The deal was done. Paramount would release the film...
...like, four lines, but he was totally believable and he was really good and at the end of the day, he was in Bullitt. He's in all these great movies because he doesn't do this kind of thing." The role later went to Leonardo DiCaprio...
...accounts the movie's maiden voyage was more successful than that of its namesake. The (reportedly) $200-million production?s special effects drew a warm response from reviewers, although its three-hour duration and some of the minutae drew criticism. Speaking at the event, male lead Leonardo DiCaprio said the film, which opens in the U.S. in December, had been "a long journey" and had "made a man of me." The large contingent of teen-aged girls in attendance appeared to agree...
...will not find the adjective Tupac Shakurish used to describe his bland hip-hop work--but in Hollywood these days, he is giving off heat. Wahlberg's performance in The Basketball Diaries (1995) as a drug-addled Catholic school dropout, opposite the De Niro of his generation, Leonardo DiCaprio, was surprisingly well received. Just last week he had dinner with the actual Robert De Niro to talk about a boxing film the two plan to star in called Out on My Feet. And Wahlberg is already drawing serious critical attention for his unexpectedly impressive work in Boogie Nights as Dirk...