Robbie was sitting down with both DiCaprio and Brad Pitt when MTV News‘ Josh Horowitz brought up the “biggest movie controversy of all time”: whether or not the door could have held Jack. DiCaprio wouldn’t comment, but Robbie jumped in to say that she had definitely “thought it.” She didn’t press her co-star to answer whether or not there was room for two, but she did want to know if he had noticed the issue while filming.
“Did you mention it at the time?” Robbie asked. “Were you like, ‘Should we make the door smaller so I–‘”
DiCaprio jumped in to reiterate his “no comment” stance, so alas, we’ll never know. It did make for a funny exchange, though, as you can see below:
Director James Cameron, on the other hand, disagrees. He has said on multiple occasions that the door only could have held Rose and that the story required Jack to die. And yet, the controversy will go on.
How big were disaster movies in the ’90s? Not only did they rule the box office, but there were two volcano movies going head to head in 1997, followed by two “killer comet” movies in 1998. That’s huge.
We rank the decade’s best disaster flicks — and realize just how many of these the much-missed Bill Paxton was in. Sigh.
It’s Sylvester Stallone to the rescue after a horrific explosion in the New Jersey Tunnel traps a handful of survivors in this underrated feature from “The Fast and the Furious” director Rob Cohen. Future “Lord of the Rings” star Viggo Mortensen is one of the first to go as a cocky mountaineer who thinks he can save the day. Sorry, it’s Sly’s movie. And it’s a darn good one.
Emmy-winning “ER” director Mimi Leder made her feature film debut here as one of the first women to be hired to helm a a big-budget movie. It’s a solid film, but a much more somber one than the other movies on this list. Bonus points for scientific accuracy … and Morgan Freeman as one of our favorite movie Presidents, although the visual effects haven’t exactly aged well.
If you want extra cheese with your disaster movie, “Volcano” delivers it in spades. Let’s start with the premise that there’s a volcano under Los Angeles, add in the bubbling La Brea Tar pits as the place things first start heating up, and some truly ridiculous ways to combat lava. And don’t forget the many times it points out that if a natural disaster is big enough, it just might heal all of society’s problems. Done!
Flying cows! Bill Paxton in a starring role! This heart-pumping film about tornado chasers might overdo it a bit: The angelic choir “awwwing” as the first twister is sighted? Okay, sure. And, it’s the rare disaster movie where the female lead (Helen Hunt) is the biggest risk taker. 5. “Dante’s Peak” (1997) Universal Pictures The other volcano movie from 1997 offers a satisfyingly scary eruption, panicky small-towners, and a side of romance. The disaster unfolds just as it should, with the first few signs of danger being foolishly dismissed by everyone but Pierce Brosnan, a volcanologist who’s seen “the big show” before. We learned a lot from this movie: The “frog in hot water” metaphor, don’t choose a chopper as your escape vehicle, and that if you’re James Bond, you can drive a car through flaming hot lava.
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Flying cows! Bill Paxton in a starring role! This heart-pumping film about tornado chasers might overdo it a bit: The angelic choir “awwwing” as the first twister is sighted? Okay, sure. But, it’s the rare disaster movie where the female lead (Helen Hunt) is the biggest risk taker.
The other volcano movie from 1997 offers a satisfyingly scary eruption, panicky small-towners, and a side of romance. The disaster unfolds just as it should, with the first few signs of danger being foolishly dismissed by everyone but Pierce Brosnan, a volcanologist who’s seen “the big show” before. We learned a lot from this movie: The “frog in hot water” metaphor, don’t choose a chopper as your escape vehicle if fleeing plumes of deadly ash, and that if you’re James Bond, you can drive a car through flaming hot lava.
Undoubtedly the cheesiest movie on this list (for the Animal Crackers scene alone), it also gives you some of the biggest bang for your buck. We love the oil rig crew who get to save the world, from Bruce Willis to Steve Buscemi and Michael Clarke Duncan, none of whom we want to see bite the big one. And yes, we readily admit to crying over a Michael Bay film.
This eminently re-watchable blockbuster established Will Smith as a movie star, gave us another favorite movie prez (Bill Pullman), and, of course, the most iconic “landmark blowing up” scene with the destruction of the White House. Once again, a disaster brings out the best in humanity, and anyone can be a hero, even Randy Quaid’s crackpot aviator.
Proof that “disaster” and “prestige” movies can be one and the same: Tom Hanks, stars in the real-life drama of astronauts who were stranded in space after a major malfunction. Every single NASA employee works around the clock to get him and his shipmates (Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton) home safely. One of its 9 Oscar nominations went to Ed Harris, who anchors the film as NASA’s Gene Kranz, and gets to deliver some of the other famous lines, including: “I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.”
James Cameron‘s retelling of the fateful sinking of the most famous ship in history was the biggest box-office hit in history, until it was surpassed by Cameron himself with “Avatar.” And only 1959’s “Ben-Hur” has won as many Oscars. Whether you were in it for the doomed romance of Jack and Rose or the spectacular special effects, it was epic on all levels. If you saw it in the theater (and who didn’t?), the sound of the glass shattering on the bridge made you feel like you were right there with the poor Captain as the water came crashing in. Still gives us chills.
In two weeks, “Endgame” has earned $2.272 billion worldwide, moving past “Titanic’s” haul of $2.187 billion to become the No. 2 grossing movie of all time.
Director James Cameron took to Twitter to congratulate the Marvel team, saying, “An iceberg sank the real Titanic. It took The Avengers to sink my Titanic.”
Sinking “Titanic” at No. 2 is quite the feat.; the romantic drama held onto the spot for over two decades.
Now, the only movie ahead of “Endgame” at the global box office is Cameron’s “Avatar” with the astonishing record of $2.788 billion.
On Saturday, “Endgame” became only the fifth film to join the $2 billion club (along with “Avatar,” “Titanic,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Avengers: Infinity War”). It was the fastest movie to cross that mark.
Will “Endgame” go on to beat “Avatar”? Box office pundits are divided. The more interesting question is: Will Cameron congratulate the movie if it does?
The Oscar winner revealed recently that he auditioned for the role of Jack in “Titanic” and he felt like he’d scored the gig. Of course, it eventually went to Leonardo DiCaprio and movie history was made.
“I wanted that,” he said on a Hollywood Reporter podcast. “I auditioned with Kate Winslet. Had a good audition. Walked away from there pretty confident that I had it. I didn’t get it. I never got offered that.”
There have been rumors that McConaughey had actually gotten the part and then turned it down. But the actor joked he would never have made such a blunder.
“And as I’ve said before, not even half jokingly if it’s true, if that was an offer and it didn’t come to me, I’ve got to go back and go, ‘I’ve got to meet in an alley with that agent.’”
“I auditioned with Matthew, isn’t that weird?” she said. “Never said that in public before. I auditioned with Matthew, which was completely fantastic. It just wouldn’t have been the whole ‘Jack and Rose, Kate and Leo’ thing.”
And despite losing out on the role, McConaughey’s career turned out alright, alright, alright …
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Parents are usually a bit biased when it comes to their kids, but in the case of Ariana Grande‘s five-minute “Titanic” musical, her mother knows best.
The “God Is a Woman” singer recently appeared on “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” and during her visit, she teamed up with the host on the mini-musical. Together, Grande and Corden retold the tragic tale of Rose and Jack using nine sets and 13 pop songs. The results were incredible — just ask her proud mom.
After the show aired, Joan Grande tweeted not once but twice about her daughter and Corden’s version of “Titanic.” The tweets, separated by roughly three hours, raved about the performance.
“Honestly, I cannot stop watching this…. thanks to @JKCorden …my daughter said she never had more fun,” Joan Grande wrote in part.
She then followed up with another tweet that admitted she was still watching it and reiterated that it was “GREAT.”
Dear @JKCorden. & my darling daughter @arianagrande PLEASE HELP… I cannot even tell you how many times I have watched this…,… damn… it IS GREAT!!!!! Soundtrack to 'Titanic' w/ Ariana Grande & James Corden https://t.co/RHpe204QjL via @YouTube
Some movies hold up better than others. But once you look at them through nostalgia-free eyes, you may realize the films you gave two thumbs up to are really worth two thumbs down. Here are the ’90s most overrated movies.
Stephen Rodrick’s lengthy profile is alternately sad, strange, confusing, poignant, damning, illuminating, alarming, and pretty hilarious.
The purpose from Depp’s side seems to be a desire for justice in his legal battles with his business managers over his lost fortune.
But the interview has so many detours — including this section with some of his thoughts on the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies and their subplots:
He considers himself a funny man and tells me how, in one of the early Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Sparrow washes ashore and mumbles an incoherent curse.
“I say ‘Dirty Sanchez,’ ” says Depp, using slang for an obscene sex act. “Before the DVD, they dropped it out.”
Depp has a great affinity for Sparrow, whose persona is borrowed from Keith Richards, another Depp idol. He’s protective of the character and claims he battled with Disney screenwriters repeatedly.
“Why must you have these f*cking heinous subplots?” asks Depp. “It’s convoluted. There is not a f*cking soul that wants to see Captain Jack Sparrow sad.”
He may have a point there. But he may lose you in the section that includes a random pitch to make “Titanic” in a bathtub. That comes toward the very end of the interview, when the reporter is tired but Depp’s mind is still racing:
“Depp rambles on about what he wants to do as soon as the lawsuits are settled and he is vindicated. There is a French book he wants to adapt and direct. It’s about a man who loses his wife, loses everything and then checks into a senior-citizen home even though he’s only in his forties.
“It’s called Happier Days,” Depp tells me. (This is not to be confused with a Keith Richards documentary that Depp says he’s halfway done with, which is tentatively titled Happy.)
From there, it’s a short jump to musing about a remake of Titanic, filmed entirely in a bathtub.
“That would be great, but Hollywood never takes risks anymore,” says Depp with a sigh.
I want to go home, but feel reluctant to leave. One of the most famous actors in the world is now smoking dope with a writer and his lawyer while his cook makes dinner and his bodyguards watch television. There is no one around him who isn’t getting paid.”
To the bathtub!
Brushing aside the sadness that no one around Depp isn’t being paid — and his defenders are all fans who don’t really know him beyond the big screen or selfies/autographs — what do you think of “Titanic” in a bathtub? Would you watch? Honestly … we might give it a shot, just out of curiosity.
There’s a lot in the interview about the money issues, and while much of it sounds insane, this part is just funny:
“It’s insulting to say that I spent $30,000 on wine,” says Depp. “Because it was far more.”
Depp says they got the Hunter S. Thompson cannon story wrong, too. “By the way, it was not $3 million to shoot Hunter into the f*cking sky,” says Depp. “It was $5 million.”
Haha. He also addressed the idea that he has his lines fed to him through an earpiece on movie sets (a rumor that earned an eyeroll from Jessica Chastain):
“According to the suit, Depp kept a sound engineer on the payroll so he could feed him lines through an earpiece while filming. This Depp does not deny, saying the sounds fed to him made him act with just his eyes.
‘I’ve got bagpipes, a baby crying and bombs going off,’ says Depp. ‘It creates a truth. Some of my biggest heroes were in silent film,’ Depp tells me, lighting another cigarette. ‘It had to be behind the eyes. And my feeling is, that if there’s no truth behind the eyes, doesn’t matter what the f*cking words are.’”
One of the biggest music stars on the planet took inspiration from one of the biggest movies ever for her recent 30th birthday bash, with Adele throwing herself an epic “Titanic“-themed party this weekend. And based on the photos she shared on social media, the singer was super serious about nailing every little detail from the 1997 film.
In an Instagram post featuring a series of black and white snaps from the soiree, Adele gave a shout-out to her “family and friends for entertaining my super fandom of the Titanic movie,” and called the event “the best night of my life.” And judging by the stunning photos, it’s hard not to see why.
The singer looks like she could easily have been Kate Winslet‘s stand-in as Rose DeWitt Bukater in the Oscar-winning flick, down to donning the exact same hair, makeup, and beaded dress as the actress. In one photo, she’s standing atop a grand staircase just like the one from the movie, and in another, she’s sporting what appears to be a replica of the Heart of the Ocean necklace.
The final image features Adele breaking it down on the dance floor, mimicking the scene where Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose dance below deck with the steerage class. She and her fellow partygoers are also decked out in lifejackets similar to what were worn in the film — monogrammed with “30” in honor of the occasion — though as some commenters have pointed out on Twitter, that detail seems to be in poor taste, since so many passengers on the real-life ship died when it sank in April of 1912.
Setting aside that questionable choice, we have to applaud Adele’s dedication to her favorite flick. Kate Winslet should give her a call if she ever needs a stunt double.
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One of the biggest music stars on the planet took inspiration from one of the biggest movies ever for her recent 30th birthday bash, with