A Titanic scramble.TITANIC Titanic (tītăn`ĭk), British liner that sank on the night of Apr. 14–15, 1912, after crashing into an iceberg in the N Atlantic S of Newfoundland. More than 1,500 lives were lost. - the biggest box-office hit of all time - is set to smash sales records in Britain all over again when the video is launched today. Film-makers 20th Century Fox expect to sell up to five million copies by Christmas, beating all previous records. An unprecedented 495 stores opened at midnight last night to meet public demand. Scenes are expected to mirror Titanic fever in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , where desperate shoppers even fought in the aisles over scarce copies. The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. and Kate Winslet <noinclude></noinclude> Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-nominated, BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English actress. , has earned nearly pounds 1.1 billion to date. |
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