about $850 million at the box office world-wide, 

and is expected to pass $1 billion, topping the 

"Jurassic Park" record of $930 million in 1993; 

studios get about half the box office. Production 

costs alone were more than $200 million.

Paramount, a unit of Viacom Inc. "capped" its 

investment in the film at $65 million; Twentieth 

Century Fox, a News Corp. unit, had to pay that 

amount, plus pick up the tab when "Titanic" went 

at least $80 million over its $120 million budget.

1912, she was hailed as ‘the new wonder of the world’. A remarkable 

feat of engineering, she was the largest and most luxuriously 

appointed ship ever seen and, despite her tragic sinking five days 

later, she remains a source of enduring pride in the City where she 

was built – Belfast.