Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: 20th Century Fox neParamount Pictures vakabatanidza mari yeTitanic, Paramount ichibata kugoverwa kweNorth America uye Fox ichibata kuburitswa kwenyika dzakawanda. Vaitarisira kuti Cameron apedzise firimu racho kuti ribudiswe musi waJuly 2, 1997. Firimu racho raifanira kubudiswa musi uyu "kuti ribatsirwe nokutengeswa kwamatikiti kunopfumisa kwomwaka wezhizha apo mafirimu makuru anowanzoita zviri nani". Muna April, Cameron akati mifananidzo yefirimu yakanga yakaoma uye kuti kubudisa firimu yezhizha kwaisazogoneka. Nokunonoka kwekugadzirwa, Paramount yakasundira shure musi wokubudiswa kuna December 19, 1997. "Izvi zvakamutsa fungidziro dzokuti firimu rimene rakanga riri ngwavaira". Kuratidzwa kwokutanga muMinneapolis musi waJuly 14 "kwakaunza mhinduro dzakanaka" uye "[c]hatter paIndaneti yaiva nemhosva yemashoko akanaka zvikuru pamusoro pe[firimu]". Izvi pakupedzisira zvakatungamirira kukufukidzwa kwakanaka kwenhau. Firimu racho rakatanga kuratidzwa musi waNovember 1, 1997, paTokyo International Film Festival, uko maitiro akarondedzerwa se"nyoro" neThe New York Times. Ongororo dzakanaka dzakatanga kuoneka zvakare muUnited States; kuratidzwa kwomuHollywood kwokutanga kwakaitika pana December 14, 1997, apo "nyeredzi huru dzemafirimu dzakapinda kuvhurwa dzaiva dzichinyatsoshingaira kutaura pamusoro pefirimu racho kumapepanhau enyika".  Mubvunzo: Nei Paramount yakafanira kuchinja musi wokubudisa?
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