10 Behind-The-Scenes Dramas That Failed To Derail Famous Movies

With over $2.1 billion in ticket sales, Titanic is the second highest-grossing movie in cinematic history, but this staggering success is completely at odds with the troublesome production the movie enjoyed.

The budget for Titanic was initially projected to be around the $100 million mark - 20th Century Fox didn't have much faith in the project and so sought out a partner to help co-finance the film, eventually working with Paramount - but a complicated shoot caused this to balloon closer to $200 million.

The film was initially slated for a July release, but as that date loomed, director James Cameron realised this would be impossible, due to the time-consuming nature of the visual effects shots.

This resulted in Titanic having to be pushed back, which didn't exactly boost the studio's confidence in the project, nor improve its appearance in the eyes of the press, who had been attacking the film for months due to its ballooning costs and apparent mismanaged production.

And then, to pour more salt on the wound, marketing Titanic proved problematic. The marketing team struggled to condense a 3-hour movie down into a 30-second TV spot, leading to several different trailers that sold the film as several different things, from a disaster movie, to a romance, to an action-adventure.

There were other problems too, like 50 of the cast and crew being taken to hospital after eating a shellfish dish that was laced with PCP. Things were not looking good at all.

And then... the movie came out, and all was forgotten. Titanic won eleven Academy Awards, and is one of the greatest success stories in Hollywood history.