"Avatar" director James Cameron has announced plans to revive his 1997 mega-hit, "Titanic," in 3-D.
In a recent interview with USA Today, Cameron explained that he and his team are currently reworking the Leonardo DiCaprio epic for a possible release in two years.
Cameron says they are "targeting spring of 2012 for the release [of a 3-D version of Titanic], which is the 100 year anniversary of the sailing of the ship."
Titanic was previously the highest grossing film of all-time, having grossed $1.8 billion worldwide, until it was recently unseated by "Avatar."
"Re-release" has become a buzz word in the James Cameron camp, with the director also revealing plans for a directors cut of "Avatar" to possibly hit theaters this summer.
"The wild card is that we might be re-releasing the movie this fall," Cameron told USA Today. "It's kind of gotten stomped out (in theaters since the release) of Alice in Wonderland. The word we're getting back from exhibitors is we probably left a couple of hundred million dollars on the table as a result," he said.
And while Cameron believes there is still cash left to be made off of "Avatar," he's not positive audiences will still be interested.
"The question is [that] the appetite [is] still going to be there after the summer glut of movies," he said. "We're going to assess that. We're talking about may be adding in additional footage and doing something creative."
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