Titanic News: Official 3-Disc Set Details

[Mermaid Kelly]

a 3 disc now?? I'm glad I didn't buy the 2 disc

[Escapay]

Here's a headscratcher courtesy of DVDActive...

Paramount Home Entertainment has confirmed a release date for a 10th Annivesary edition the James Cameron directed Titanic which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet. The two-disc special edition will be available to own from the 20th November. I'm afraid Paramount hasn't reveal the contents of this one yet, but we'll bring you further details just as soon as they become available to us. Stay tuned for that.

So...two years after the phenomenal, if somewhat lacking*, release of Titanic: Three-Disc Collector's Edition, a 10th Anniversary Edition will be released...and it's only two discs. That means we're either getting the two existing discs (with the movie in two parts, commentaries, and behind the scene pods), or they're gonna put the movie on one disc, and use the second for new features (such as Ed Marsh's two-hour documentary that was dropped from the 2005 release, and the dropped trailers from the R1 release.)

I'm a little pissed, but at the same time, a little excited. Pissed because it's a shameless double dip and because Titanic isn't a movie I'm keen to buy on DVD thrice, so the extras better be new and worth it, otherwise it's a skip for me. Then again, I'm excited because we may finally get to see that documentary (and trailers!!!), which was already completed in 2005, and maybe even some new features with DiCaprio interviews that would make up for his absence in the 2005 DVD. Would love if he, Winslet, and Cameron recorded a new commentary together.

Scaps

*I only say lacking in that there was no input by DiCaprio (beyond a couple old 1997 interviews), and, of course, the dropped documentary and trailers.

[MadonnasManOne]

Yeah, Scaps, I read that, earlier today, and I was like, "What the freak?!" Well, replace "freak" with another "F" word, and you've got what I was thinking.

Yeah, unless this has all nude scenes with Leonardo, I'm not buying!

Seriously, though, I really don't think there's anything that will make me buy this for a third time. I'm quite content with the 3-Disc set. Of course, it will probably end up having that documentary, the trailers, and participation by Leonardo, and I'll be extremely tempted to buy it. We'll see.

[disneyboy20022]

Thanks "Scaps" For posting


If the movie is on one disc I might get it as I gor rid of the one disc dvd of Titanic... But I upgraded to the 3-disc in 2005... But then found out it was part 1 on one disc and part 2 on the other... I Probably would have kept my one disc... if I had known that..... Heck I'll probably end up buiying no matter what... I love Titanic.. Mainly because I saw Titanica at the at the ONIMAX theater at Saint Louis Science theater and its possibly one of the best IMAX Screens ever.....Anyway it was in the third grade I saw (the documentary Titanica)

I am/was a so obessed with the Titanic ship I named one of my cat's who was born on my birthday (differ year obviously) Titanica..... (no I am not joking.. it was either Boots or Titanica and I wanted a unique name... She is still alive today she has been living for 7 years now...

Here's a headscratcher courtesy of DVDActive...

Paramount Home Entertainment has confirmed a release date for a 10th Annivesary edition the James Cameron directed Titanic which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet. The two-disc special edition will be available to own from the 20th November. I'm afraid Paramount hasn't reveal the contents of this one yet, but we'll bring you further details just as soon as they become available to us. Stay tuned for that.

So...two years after the phenomenal, if somewhat lacking*, release of Titanic: Three-Disc Collector's Edition, a 10th Anniversary Edition will be released...and it's only two discs. That means we're either getting the two existing discs (with the movie in two parts, commentaries, and behind the scene pods), or they're gonna put the movie on one disc, and use the second for new features (such as Ed Marsh's two-hour documentary that was dropped from the 2005 release, and the dropped trailers from the R1 release.)

I'm a little pissed, but at the same time, a little excited. Pissed because it's a shameless double dip and because Titanic isn't a movie I'm keen to buy on DVD thrice, so the extras better be new and worth it, otherwise it's a skip for me. Then again, I'm excited because we may finally get to see that documentary (and trailers!!!), which was already completed in 2005, and maybe even some new features with DiCaprio interviews that would make up for his absence in the 2005 DVD. Would love if he, Winslet, and Cameron recorded a new commentary together.

Scaps

*I only say lacking in that there was no input by DiCaprio (beyond a couple old 1997 interviews), and, of course, the dropped documentary and trailers.

[azul017]

I think the 2-disc set will be either one of the following:

- Drop the DTS 6.1 ES and Dolby 2.0 tracks (and probably the historical commentary) present on the 3-disc set, squeeze the movie on one disc and save the remaining space for holding over the deleted scenes and put the extras from the 4-disc set from the R2 edition on it.
- Omit the third disc and just repackage the first 2 discs as a special 10th Anniversary edition in a Amaray case.

I dunno why people are complaining about the 3-disc edition when it seems that the first three discs were very thorough in behind-the-scenes stuff, history and sheer content. The 4th disc on the overseas version seems like fluffy content like a SNL parody, trailers and the HBO special.

I'd hold on to the 2005 set (be it either 3 or 4-disc sets), it seems very definitive in terms of transfer and extras. And besides, like the LOTR extended editions, the movie is split over 2 discs to preserve transfer quality without sacrificing the extras. I'd rather have the latter so that the movie won't suffer from compression problems.

[Escapay]

I dunno why people are complaining about the 3-disc edition when it seems that the first three discs were very thorough in behind-the-scenes stuff, history and sheer content. The 4th disc on the overseas version seems like fluffy content like a SNL parody, trailers and the HBO special.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the material in the 3-disc edition. It's just that I'm a trailers whore, so losing the fourth disc was a pain in the ass for me. Plus, the parodies are available as easter eggs on the third disc (granted, I can never find them), and the HBO First Look special is something I haven't seen, but it is always great as a marketing tool to see how they promoted movies (which is why I don't mind their inclusion on DVDs these days, but only if it's a supplement to a regular documentary, and not considered an actual in-depth documentary).

I loved the behind-the-scenes pods that played with the movie, but they really can't substitute for a good making-of feature (playing them without the movie is essentially two half-hour mini-documentaries with little direction). I think Bill Hunt of TheDigitalBits said it best:

What I really missed here is the kind of thoughtful perspective and insight you'd get from a newly-produced, retrospective documentary on the making of this film. We've seen some truly great in-depth production documentaries on DVD lately, on such releases as the Alien Quadrilogy, the 3-disc Gladiator, Top Gun, Spider-Man 2, etc. But you DON'T get one here. To make matters worse, as you may recall from our coverage of the initial DVD announcement event with Cameron and Landau, this new Titanic: Special Collector's Edition WAS originally expected to include just such a feature-length documentary, produced by Marsh. Our information is that Marsh DID in fact complete the piece, but it was killed late in the game by Cameron himself. This just goes to prove, I think, that even directors don't always know what's best for the DVD releases of their films. Without such a documentary, all the little video "pods" and the Fox special just serve to whet your appetite for a main course that never gets served.

Scaps

[azul017]

Well, the pre-order listing on DVD Empire seems to indicate that the first two discs will be repackaged in a Amaray keep case and dubbed the 10th Anniversary edition -- there's no details on extras yet, but the movie is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with the following audio and subtitle options:

- English DTS 6.1 ES
- English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround EX
- English & Spanish stereo surround (no indication whether the French track is held over or omitted yet)
- English subtitles

[slave2moonlight]

I haven't watched my three disc set yet and didn't even know it was split onto two different discs. I'm not exactly thrilled to hear it...

[azul017]

Why are you not thrilled to hear it? I would rather have a beautiful, stable picture with a wide choice of audio options spread over 2-discs than have a horribly compressed picture with lots of pixelation crammed on one disc.

They did the exact same thing for the LOTR EEs, and I don't hear anyone complaining about that.

[slave2moonlight]

Why are you not thrilled to hear it? I would rather have a beautiful, stable picture with a wide choice of audio options spread over 2-discs than have a horribly compressed picture with lots of pixelation crammed on one disc.

They did the exact same thing for the LOTR EEs, and I don't hear anyone complaining about that.

Well, I'm complaining. It's like a commercial, it takes you out of the movie as you change the disc.

[Lazario]

One of the worst, most pointless, and painfully pretentious films of all time was ever released on DVD in the first place? Why?

[azul017]

One of the worst, most pointless, and painfully pretentious films of all time was ever released on DVD in the first place? Why?

Let's see, a lot of people liked it?

[Lazario]

Let's see, a lot of people liked it?

Well then, I hope you're happy with it. It literally dealt a near-fatal blow to the integrity of the whole of mainstream American films.

[The Little Merman]

I'm the one who's obsessed with Leo, and even I think this is a shameless triple-dip. Within a year of the last release!

?!?!

[azul017]

Let's see, a lot of people liked it?

Well then, I hope you're happy with it. It literally dealt a near-fatal blow to the integrity of the whole of mainstream American films.

Well, I was just saying that as a fact, you don't have to be so snippy about it. If you don't like it, fine.

And if you meant near-fatal blow to the integrity of the entire whole of mainstream American films in that a lot of movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean are horrendously bloated to the point of being three hours or more longer, then you're right on the money. There's nothing I dislike more than movies who think they need three hours to tell a story when two hours would've been more appropriate.

[slave2moonlight]

I actually never agreed with the complaints that Pirates was too long. As for Titanic, it took me some time to warm up to it. I really didn't think the two leads were very good in it and didn't care that much about the love story either. Billy Zane's was probably the most interesting character in the film. Still, the more I learned about the real Titanic, the more interesting the film became for me, and that's really why I came to like it quite a bit. I think it's more than a little extreme to call this (or probably any single film), "a near-fatal blow to the integrity of the whole of mainstream American films." Though, if one was talking about the copycats, like "Pearl Harbor," I might be more inclined to agree or at least understand where they were coming from.

[Lazario]

Well, I was just saying that as a fact, you don't have to be so snippy about it.

I wasn't being snippy. I was being boarish.

[Escapay]

Well, TheDigitalBits has reported some upsetting news...

Also this morning, we've been informed that Paramount's Titanic: 10th Anniversary Edition is basically just a repromote, and will not include any new extras.

So this means they likely will just take the first two discs and sell them on their own. Boo to Paramount! Where's that documentary by Ed Marsh?!?!

Scaps

[MadonnasManOne]

Well, TheDigitalBits has reported some upsetting news...

Also this morning, we've been informed that Paramount's Titanic: 10th Anniversary Edition is basically just a repromote, and will not include any new extras.

So this means they likely will just take the first two discs and sell them on their own. Boo to Paramount! Where's that documentary by Ed Marsh?!?!

Scaps

Well, at least I won't feel the need to buy this for a third time.

As far as the Ed Marsh documentary, it's probably up James Cameron's butt! I can't understand why he nixed it from the previous release!

[Jake Lipson]

Yeah, if Cameron himself was the one who nixed it then we will probably never see it. Pity, but I'm glad I have the 3-disc version (which has been on sale a lot lately -- I got it for $7.50 in January.) Given this, I wonder how many copies the new one will sell.