Titanic sails off in 3D

On the eve of the centenary of the ship's sinking, Titanic, James Cameron's ground-breaking and uniquely powerful emotional and visual epic is back on the big screen, for a limited time only, like never before - digitally remastered and in stunning 3D.

"I've been looking for years for an opportunity to put Titanic back on the big screen," said writer/director, James Cameron. "Because that's really where it belongs. It's a different experience in a movie theatre. And I never doubted for a second that Titanic was right for 3D, so I thought, well this could be a way to do it."

The National Geographic Society and National Geographic Channel have also announced a major cross-platform initiative to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, to take place in April, 2012. At the centrepiece of the plans are two world-premiere films featuring National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Robert Ballard and James Cameron and the April, 2012, cover story of National Geographic magazine, the first magazine fully to chronicle Ballad's 1985 discovery of the wreck. The Titanic specials will be shown in South Africa on DStv Channel 260.

About Titanic

The action-packed romance of Titanic unfolds against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, perhaps the most famous ship in history. In 1912, Titanic became the largest moving object ever built, the pride and joy of the White Star Line of passenger steamships. She was supposed to be the most luxurious and forward-thinking liner of her era - the ultimate "dream ship" for crossing the seas before the age of aviation - yet, ultimately, she carried over 1500 people to their deaths in the ice-cold waters of the North Atlantic on 15 April, 100 years ago.

The film's journey on Titanic begins at the site of the ship's watery grave, two-and-a-half miles under the Atlantic Ocean. Here, an ambitious fortune hunter (Bill Paxton) has come to plumb the treasures of the once-stately liner, only to bring to the surface a story left untold. The tragic ruins melt away to reveal the glittering palace of the ship at the very moment it prepares to launch on its maiden voyage from England.

Amidst the thousands of well-wishers bidding bon voyage, destiny has called two young souls, daring them to nurture a passion that will change their lives forever. Rose DeWitt Bukater (Academy Award winner Kate Winslet) is a 17-year-old, upper-class American suffocating under the rigid expectations of Edwardian society who falls for a free-spirited young steerage passenger named Jack Dawson (Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio). Once he opens her eyes to the world that lies outside her gilded cage, Rose and Jack's prohibited love begins a powerful mystery that will echo across the years to contemporary times. Nothing on Earth can come between them - not even something as unimaginable as the sinking of the Titanic.

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