Paramount Home Video is expected to announce today (Monday) that it will release James Cameron's Titanic in September. Today's Hollywood Reporter said that the likely release date will be Sept. 1; Daily Variety said it will be Sept. 9.

-- Dan Draghici (ddraghic@sprint.ca), June 08, 1998

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Hi Dan! Is there any news about when we can expect it to hit stores in Australia? We're normally a few months behind the rest of the world. Thanks.

-- Emma (foo@bar.com.au), June 09, 1998.

I don't know, Emma! You'll have to ask the Aussies there at the videostores.

-- Dan Draghici (ddraghic@sprint.ca), June 09, 1998.

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James Cameron also said at Mondays press conference that he plans to release a version of Titanic with at least 20 minutes of unused footage. I don't know if this is for theaters or cd rom? He is also planning to release a cd rom of the real footage he took of the wreckage. I got this info from AP news wire.

-- michael pitt (xrrg10b@prodigy.com), June 09, 1998.

AN EVEN LONGER TITANIC?

James Cameron confirmed Monday that the home-video version of Titanic, priced for "sell through" at between $20-$30, will be released on Sept. 1 -- supported by a record $50-million marketing campaign -- and that he eventually plans to release a special edition of the movie that will include as much as 20 minutes of additional scenes. He also indicated that Fox Interactive plans to release a CD-ROM disk about the ship that will feature underwater footage taken by his crew and other historical material.

-- Dan Draghici (ddraghic@sprint.ca), June 09, 1998.

Make sure you read this info, it's quite interesting:

http://www.variety.com/article.asp?articleID=1117471669

-- Dan Draghici (ddraghic@sprint.ca), June 09, 1998.

I will say this. Cameron sure knows how to take advantage of the situation and make money$$$.

-- Rose (rose364@earthlink.net), June 09, 1998.

Note that the Variety article quotes Cameron as saying that the "Director's Cut" may not be released for quite some time, as the theatrical release is the "definitive" version.

They'll probably wait a couple of years then rerelease it as a 'Special Edition,' as Spielberg did with 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

Cheers!

-- Kip Henry (kip-henry@ouhsc.edu), June 10, 1998.