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There’s a good chance you owned a double-VHS of Titanic back in the day.<\/p>\n
The general public remembers James Cameron<\/strong>‘s Oscar-winning blockbuster as that tear-jerker starring Leonardo DiCaprio<\/strong> and Kate Winslet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n But for the folks behind the lens, those who worked closely in bringing the director’s vision to life on screen \u2014 it wasn’t exactly a walk in the park.<\/p>\n Producer Jon Landau<\/strong>‘s new memoir The Bigger Picture<\/a> hits shelves Nov. 4 and shares new insight into the “challenging” process of the costly ordeal, which spawned countless bad rumors around Hollywood while production trucked on.<\/p>\n Excerpts from Landau’s upcoming book were published by media outlets including Variety<\/a> and The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> on Tuesday, Oct. 14, which give fans of the 1997 movie a closer look at how it all started.<\/p>\n “We spent many months in postproduction. Entire plot devices, scenes we took great care to shoot, fell away as we pieced together the film,” Landau, 63, writes in his memoir, per THR. “All the while, the press continued to hound. Reporters would infiltrate and ingratiate in search of scoops. Rumors spiraled. Articles reported we\u2019d spent $200 million. Others speculated we\u2019d spent even more. They compared Titanic, still months away from release, to Ishtar, Waterworld, and Cleopatra, the most notorious flops in Hollywood history. Whenever you try for something great, you risk everything. Your reputation, your career, your livelihood \u2014 important things are on the line.”<\/p>\n Landau continues, “The buzz inside the studio was just as bad. It, too, was all rumors. They said the movie was too long. They said the effects didn\u2019t work. They said the acting was weak. None of it was true, but gossip takes on its own life. Perception becomes reality. You end up chasing phantoms, which can be deadly.”<\/p>\n The film producer goes on to say that one advanced screening \u2014 where attendees didn’t even know what movie they were going to see \u2014 saved the Titanic team from all the bad press, having proved to the small audience that the whole agonizing process was well worth the astonishing end result.<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Oct 14, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a good chance you owned a double-VHS of Titanic back in the day. 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