A 2012 Release Date Is Set for a ‘Titanic’ in 3-D2011-05-21

In case you ever doubted it, James Cameron is truly the king of the three-dimensional world. Or he will be when his “Titanic” is re-released by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox on April 6 in 3-D. Mr. Cameron, whose 3-D “Avatar,” with almost $2.8 billion in ticket sales at the worldwide box office, is the highest-grossing film in history,

will revise the record books when “Titanic,” the second-highest-grossing film of all time, with $1.8 billion in worldwide sales, returns to theaters in 3-D. Fox and Paramount joined Mr. Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment in announcing the re-release date on Thursday. The next frontier in 3-D may well involve not fantasies and cartoons but naturalistic dramas like “Titanic” (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, left). Steven Soderbergh, for instance, had planned to shoot his coming “Contagion,” a disease drama, in 3-D, but backed off when he couldn’t quite get the results he needed. Still, 3-D thrillers, love stories and raunchy teen comedies (shudder) clearly are just a matter of time. 

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