![]() So that’s what I walked into: it was out of control, and people put their heads in the sand. ![]() Jim went off and did everything - like change way more effects into practical - to theoretically control costs. He built the ship and all that. But he just did not have enough time, and he had a release date and a budget that were both impractical. So it was to put him under pressure to try and get him to do something else by making the conditions too harsh. ![]() It was the general rule that people didn’t want Jim to venture out of his lane, which was sci-fi, and here he was making a large-scale romantic epic. ![]() The film was, to me, under-budgeted and put under time pressure, because Peter didn’t really want to make the movie. Both Chernin and Mechanic ultimately answered to Rupert Murdoch.īILL MECHANIC (FOX FILMED ENTERTAINMENT CHAIRMAN) Things went off track essentially from the get-go. But after production got underway, it quickly became apparent that the film was going to cost considerably more, which became the problem of Bill Mechanic, the newly hired Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman. president and COO Peter Chernin “Romeo and Juliet on the Titanic,” the exec authorized his company’s subsidiary 20th Century Fox to make Titanic for $110 million, a sizable but not unprecedented budget. TITANIC SETS SAIL AMID PREDICTIONS OF DISASTERĪfter hitmaker James Cameron pitched News Corp. King Charles III Coronation Concert: When to Watch Tom Cruise, Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, Take That, New 'Doctor Who' and Winnie-the-Pooh ![]()
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