{"id":204352,"date":"2025-10-16T14:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204352\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:26:06","slug":"when-hollywood-doubted-titanic-kurt-russell-made-everyone-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204352\/","title":{"rendered":"When Hollywood Doubted Titanic, Kurt Russell Made Everyone Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"

In conflict, the studio cobbled together its own teaser for the movie, which Landau and co. called \u201cthe John Woo trailer\u201d, adding, \u201cIt was all flash cuts and pounding music, gunshots, and screams. It made the movie look like an action flick that happened to take place on the Titanic.\u201d <\/p>\n

Landau recalls (via Variety<\/a>) that at first they tried reasoning with Paramount over the trailer disagreement, then \u201cscreaming\u201d at them, until the studio\u2019s CEO, Sherry Lansing, nixed the decision from her distribution department and allowed Titanic\u2019s longer trailer to be shown at ShoWest that year. Landau remembers sitting at the Paramount table with \u201csome of their top executives and biggest names\u201d, which included none other than Kurt Russell, who was the star of the studio\u2019s forthcoming action thriller, Breakdown.<\/p>\n

According to Landau, he was nervous as the trailer played to its banquet hall audience. \u201cJust as it ended, Kurt Russell<\/a> loudly announced, \u2018I\u2019d pay ten dollars just to see that trailer again.\u2019 With that, we got a special dispensation from the Motion Picture Association \u2014 trailers were supposed to be 150 seconds, max \u2014 to release a four-minute-and-two-second trailer to audiences around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom that day on,\u201d he writes, \u201cevery negative article about the film ended with the sentiment that the movie might actually be good. It was a real turning point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once again, Kurt saved the day. It\u2019s all in the reflexes.<\/p>\n

The Bigger Picture by Jon Landau will be published on November 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In conflict, the studio cobbled together its own teaser for the movie, which Landau and co. called \u201cthe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-204352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}