Titanic and the Making of James Cameron

The only full-length narrative book, including excerpts from Cameron’s journals, on how this landmark film was made, by the one Hollywood journalist who has covered the saga from its very beginning. Nominated for 14 Academy Awards, and the first film ever to gross over $1 billion worldwide, the movie Titanic has re-defined the term blockbuster both in expense and result. Paula Parisi began covering James Cameron for The Hollywood Reporter with The Abyss (1989). She has been following Titanic since 1995, when pre-production began, and made many visits to the principal movie set in Mexico. Over the last 3 years, she has conducted more than 100 hours of interviews with Cameron and more than 50 of his closest creative associates, family members, and friends, as well as with more than two dozen top Hollywood executives, agents, and producers. This new book tracks the progress of the film in a fast-paced narrative that reads like an adventure story, while telling in detail Cameron’s moves and choices involving casting, production design, budgeting, the studios, etc. It is a must-read for any Titanic fan, film fan, and film student.