Poseidon is a 2006 disaster film

Poseidon (film)

Directed by	Wolfgang Petersen
Produced by	Wolfgang Petersen Duncan Henderson Mike Fleiss Akiva Goldsman
Screenplay by	Mark Protosevich
Based on	The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico
Starring	Josh Lucas Kurt Russell Richard Dreyfuss Emmy Rossum Jacinda Barrett Mike Vogel Mía Maestro Jimmy Bennett Andre Braugher Fergie
Music by	Klaus Badelt
Cinematography	John Seale
Editing by	Peter Honess
Studio	Virtual Studios Irwin Allen Productions Next Entertainment Radiant Productions Synthesis Entertainment
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	May 12, 2006
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$160 million
Box office	$181,674,817

Poseidon is a 2006 disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, the third film adaptation of the novel The Poseidon Adventure written by Paul Gallico, and a loose remake of the 1972 film of the same name. It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. in association with Virtual Studios. The film had a simultaneous release in the IMAX format. It was released on May 12, 2006, and nominated at the 79th Academy Awards for Visual Effects. Poseidon grossed $181,674,817 at the worldwide box office on a budget of $160,000,000. When released on DVD, it amassed $19,727,310 in sales, bringing its total gross to $201,402,127.
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Plot

The MS Poseidon, a luxury cruise ship, is on a year-end transatlantic crossing to New York. Jennifer (Emmy Rossum) is with her fiancé, Christian (Mike Vogel), and they consider how to tell Jennifer's father, former New York City Mayor Robert Ramsey (Kurt Russell), about their engagement. In the galley, stowaway Elena (MíaMaestro) searches for her friend, a waiter named Valentin (Freddy Rodriguez). Architect Richard Nelson (Richard Dreyfuss) is making a phone call to his estranged lover. In the grand ballroom, Captain Michael Bradford (AndreBraugher) delivers a New Year's speech before introducing the singer, Gloria (Fergie). Dylan (Josh Lucas), a professional gambler, and Robert play Texas Hold’em with Lucky Larry (KevinDillon). Jen, Christian and Elena are partying in the nightclub. Richard is with his friends, talking about his heartbreak. As Dylan walks with his winnings, he bumps into Connor (JimmyBennett). Maggie (Jacinda Barrett), Connor's mother, arrives and chats with Dylan.
On the bridge, officers see a 150-foot rogue wave coming towards them, while everyone celebrates the New Year countdown. On the promenade deck, Richard who is contemplating suicide, sees the wave and retreats inside. Though the crew on the bridge sounds warning alarms and turns hard to starboard to meet the wave head-on, the Poseidon turns too slowly. It is hit broad-side and capsizes. Passengers are swept overboard, fall to their deaths in overturned high-ceilinged areas or are crushed to death by falling debris. In the galley, crew are incinerated by flash fires caused by rupturing gas lines.

Sets

As with the film The Poseidon Adventure, which based many of its sets on rooms aboard the RMS Queen Mary, the film's set designers drew inspiration for some of the spaces aboard the fictional Poseidon from rooms aboard the RMS Queen Mary 2, most notably in the Poseidon's ballroom, which is modeled on the main dining room of the Queen Mary 2.
On the sound stage at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, separate sets for each main room were built — one right-side-up and the other upside down. The upside down ballroom set was built on top of a large water tank in the sound stage so that it could be filled with water and drained in a matter of hours. The interior and exterior shots of the ship rolling were constructed using computer-generated imagery.

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Cast

>>  Josh Lucas as Dylan Johns

>>  KurtRussell as Robert Ramsey

>>  Emmy Rossum as Jennifer Ramsey

>>  Mike Vogel as Christian Sanders

>>  JacindaBarrett as Maggie James

>>  MíaMaestro as Elena Gonzalez

>>  RichardDreyfuss as Richard Nelson

>>  JimmyBennett as Connor James

>>  KevinDillon as Lucky Larry

>>  FreddyRodriguez as Marco Valentin

>>  AndreBraugher as Captain Michael Bradford

>>  StacyFerguson as Gloria

>>  KirkB. R. Woller as Chief Officer Reynolds

>>  GabrielJarret as First Officer Chapman

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was released on May 9, 2006, and includes music composed by Klaus Badelt, as well as songs performed by Fergie, who played Gloria in the film, and Federico Aubele.

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Reception

The film had a budget of $160,000,000, and received generally mixed to negative reviews from critics, with a "Rotten" rating of 33% on Rotten Tomatoes, and an average score of 4.9/10 and 50 out of 100 on Metacritic, which indicates "mixed or average reviews". The film was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Remake or Ripoff. However, the film eventually gained a cult following and was commended for its realistic use of CGI in the capsizing scenes and was nominated for the Academy Award for Visual Effects. However, it lost the award to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

DVD release

Poseidon was released to DVD on August 22, 2006, in both single-disc and double-disc editions. The single-disc edition contains a behind-the-scenes featurette and the theatrical trailer. The double-disc edition expands on these two features, and also includes the documentaries Poseidon: Upside Down: A Unique Set Design Chronicle; A Shipmate's Diary, which covers a film school intern's experience on the set; and a History Channel documentary which explores rogue waves. DVD sales for Poseidon were 1,183,187 units, which translates to $19,665,430 in sales. Poseidon has made $19,727,310 in DVD sales, bringing its total gross to $201,402,127.
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