Titanic

Songs were Karl Wallinger’s compass, melody his north star. When I interviewed him in 2012, over shepherd’s pie at the Groucho Club, he described himself as being a “song creature all my life”. The best tracks by World Party, whom he fronted, sound like a man trying to cram all the love and joy of his own fandom into four minutes, to distil the essence of Bob Dylan, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Sly Stone, Van Morrison, the Beach Boys, perhaps above all the Beatles, into one bubbling, funky, heartfelt and slightly…

James Cameron fans have been eagerly anticipating this week, when collector’s editions of The Abyss, True Lies, and Aliens hit 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time, joining recently released special collector’s editions of Cameron’s mega-blockbusters Titanic, Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water. io9 has an exclusive clip from the special features arriving with The Abyss to share today.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewThe clip comes from brand-new documentary “The Legacy of The Abyss,”…

Planet Hollywood Auction: (Almost) Everything Must Go! You can’t put a price on memories, except, of course, when you can. And in March, we’ll all get a crack at buying some of the most unforgettable props in movie history at two huge, dueling movie memorabilia auctions in Los Angeles. The biggest, from March 20 to 24, will be Heritage Auctions’ Treasures From Planet Hollywood event, at which some 1,600 pieces — Princess Leia’s blaster, Indiana Jones’ whip, Jack and Rose’s lifeboat door from Titanic…

Following the news that the Apple Car project was axed, we now have more insight into Apple’s electric vehicle. Code-named “ Titan,” the project, spanning almost a decade, had another nickname coined by Apple employees: The Titanic disaster.A new report from The New York Times aptly named “Behind Apple’s Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns” gives us a peak behind the curtain into the Apple Car project and the $10 billion Apple has “burned” trying to develop the vehicle. Initially, the company wanted to…

Oscar winner Kate Winslet says she chose to do smaller projects after the global success of "Titanic" as life became "quite unpleasant" with fame. The 48-year-old star reflected on the media pressure and body image scrutiny she was subjected to after the release of James Cameron`s 1997 romance-tragedy epic. "I felt like I had to look a certain way, or be a certain thing, and because media intrusion was so significant at that time, my life was quite unpleasant. "Journalists would always say, `After `Titanic`, you could…

Back in 1997, Titanic was the biggest (and most expensive) thing happening at the movies. James Cameron’s blockbuster was half-historical disaster film, half-romance, skyrocketing its stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio to an unexpected level of fame. For the young actress who portrayed Rose, however, that “seismic” shift in her popularity was not a welcome surprise. Winslet recently got real about why being so famous at 22 years old was “horrible” and affected what jobs she accepted after.Neither Kate Winslet nor…

Mark Gustafson, co-director on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, died on Thursday, February 1 after a heart attack.Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DNews of the 64-year-old filmmaker’s death was revealed by del Toro, who eulogized him on Twitter as a “true artist. I admired , even before I met him. A Legend- and a friend that inspired and gave hope to all around him.” He went on to say Gustafson leaves behind “a Titanic legacy of animation. I loved having had the chance to share time and space with him…

Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, stunned with its massive size, surpassing the Titanic and featuring impressive amenities that garnered widespread amazement on social media.Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas will officially set sail on January 27, making history by holding the title of the world’s largest cruise ship.On Wednesday (January 10), the vessel arrived in Miami for the first time in preparation for its sailing debut.The massive ship, which can accommodate over 7,000 passengers, was welcomed…

Most of the time, an obituary makes headlines because of how a person lived. But every now and then, it's because of how they died. That certainly is the case for the five men on the OceanGate Titan submersible, which imploded this past June on its way down to the Titanic.One of them was OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, the designer of the sub. He certainly enjoyed playing the maverick. In 2022 he told me, "I don't know if it was MacArthur, but somebody said, 'You're remembered for the rules you break,' and that's the fact.…

Lily Gladstone is getting standout acclaim for her work in Killers of the Flower Moon as wealthy Osage woman Mollie Kyle, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio's Ernest Burkhart, Mollie's duplicitous husband. And it turns out, the actress has a deep love for her co-star's other standout performance in Titanic, as she has a VHS of the film. Let's just say I love this '90s nostalgia for Titanic just as much as both actors' performances in Martin Scorsese's latest movie.Even more exciting than the awards buzz that's been humming…