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Poseidon is a 2006 American action disaster film directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen. It is the third film adaptation of Paul Gallico's 1969 novel The Poseidon Adventure, and a loose remake of the 1972 film of the same name. It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss with Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Mía Maestro, Jimmy Bennett and Andre Braugher in supporting roles. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. in association with Virtual Studios. It had a simultaneous release in IMAX format. It was released on May 12, 2006, and received mixed-to-negative reviews but was nominated at the 79th Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects.[2] It grossed $181.7 million worldwide on a budget of $160 million; however, after the costs of promotion and distribution, Warner Bros. lost around $77 million on the film, making it a box-office bomb as a result.[3]
As with the 1972 The Poseidon Adventure film, 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 Queen Mary 2, most notably in Poseidon's ballroom, which is partly modeled on the one of Queen Mary 2.
The primary visual effects were completed by Industrial Light & Magic and Moving Picture Company. ILM used the most advanced version of mental ray to photorealistically light and render the shots, and was responsible for all of the ship's exterior shots. The most complicated work was the opening shot of the ship, where the camera tours the ship's exterior. It lasts for two and a half minutes, and featured one of the most complex digital models ILM had ever created. For water simulations, proprietary software known as PhysBAM was used, created in collaboration with Stanford University. Harold "Howie" Weed was the film's computer graphics modeler.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Poseidon has a score of 33% based on 204 reviews, with an average rating of 4.9/10. The consensus reads: "This remake of The Poseidon Adventure delivers dazzling special effects. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that any of the budget was left over to devote to the script".[8] On Metacritic, which assesses films on a score out of 100, Poseidon has a rating of 50 based on 36 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it an average grade "B" on an A+ to F scale.[10]
The film was also nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Remake or Ripoff, losing to Little Man. However, it was commended for its realistic use of CGI in the capsizing scenes[13] and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, losing to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
Poseidon was released to DVD on August 22, 2006, in both single-disc and double-disc editions as well as Full-Screen and Widescreen formats and contains a behind-the-scenes featurette and the theatrical trailer. The 2-disc special edition expands on two bonus 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.[14] Domestic DVD sales for Poseidon were $27,196,438.[15]
The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's 1969 novel of the same name. It has an ensemble cast including five Oscar winners: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons. The plot centers on the fictional SS Poseidon, an aging luxury liner on her final voyage from New York City to Athens, before it is scrapped. On New Year's Day, it is overturned by a tsunami. Passengers and crew are trapped inside, and a preacher attempts to lead a small group of survivors to safety.
The film is in the vein of other all-star disaster films of the early through mid-1970s, such as Airport (1970), Earthquake (1974), and The Towering Inferno (1974). It was released in December 1972 and was the highest-grossing film of 1973, earning over $125 million worldwide. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and went on to win two Oscars,[3] a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award.[4] A sequel, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, also based on a novel by Gallico, was released in 1979.
The score for the film was composed and conducted by John Williams. The song "The Morning After", written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 45th Academy Awards in March 1973. It was performed in the film by Renée Armand, dubbing for Carol Lynley. A version of "The Morning After" performed by Maureen McGovern became a hit single in 1973.
There was no soundtrack album at the time of the film's release. The score was first released as a CD by Film Score Monthly in July 1998.[9] A remastered version was released by La-La Land Records on April 20, 2010.[10] La-La Land Records released a second, newly remastered edition of Williams' score on December 3, 2019, as part of a boxset also including Williams' scores for Earthquake and The Towering Inferno.
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 79% of 29 critics gave the film a positive review, and the average score is 7/10. The critical consensus reads: "The Poseidon Adventure exemplifies the disaster film done right, going down smoothly with ratcheting tension and a terrific ensemble to give the peril a distressingly human dimension".[14] Metacritic gave the film a score of 70 based on 10 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[15]
The film expanded to 205 engagements by Christmas Day with a gross to that date of $2,604,168 in the United States which made it the number one film at the US box office.[22][23] It remained at number one through the New Year period but was displaced by The Getaway for one week before returning to number one for 8 consecutive weeks. It spent another two weeks at number one for a total of 12 weeks atop the box office. The film went on to earn theatrical rentals of $40 million in the United States and Canada in 1973 being the highest-grossing film of the year.[24] The film was reissued in June 1974 and was number one at the US box office in its first week.[25] It earned rentals of $75 million worldwide,[7] for a worldwide gross of over $125 million.[2]
When the film made its network television premiere on ABC on October 27, 1974, it earned a Nielsen rating of 39.0 and an audience share of 62%, making it the sixth-highest rated film to ever air on network television.[32][33]
The Poseidon Adventure has become a cult film.[34] It is in the vein of other all-star disaster films of the 1970s, such as Airport, and later ones like Earthquake (1974) and The Towering Inferno (1974). It is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book, The Official Razzie Movie Guide, as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.[35]
Yes. And if you want to see the opposite of those qualities, consider some of the other films by the director Wolfgang Petersen, most notably "Das Boot" (1981) but also "In the Line of Fire" (1993) and "The Perfect Storm" (2000). It may have been the latter movie that won him the assignment to remake "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972). In "The Perfect Storm," he shows a fishing boat trying to climb an overwhelming wall of water, and failing. It is one of the best adventure movies of recent years, with vivid characters, convincing special effects and a tangible feel for the relentless sea.
Oh Great. Been a big fan of the original Irwin Allen film and always thought it was instrumental in my love of ocean liners and cruise ships. Have to admit I have mixed feelings over this Wolfgang Petersen version as I think classics should never be refilmed. That being said I am on the QM2 for the first time later this year and not so sure I want to actually be on the Poseidon! Guess I better start finding my way down (or is that up) to the engine room. HA HA HA!
Oh Great. Been a big fan of the original Irwin Allen film and always thought it was instrumental in my love of ocean liners and cruise ships. Have to admit I have mixed feelings over this Wolfgang Petersen version as I think classics should never be refilmed.
Don't forget the 1959 MGM movie shot aboard the Ile De France: The Last Voyage. The Ile had been sold to Japanese scrappers, but was chartered to MGM for the film. The studio incorporated explosions, partial flooding, and the destruction of one of her funnels during the filming, to the horror of the French Line. Talk about bad publicity....
Juxtaposed with this brutality is the fact that this movie is gorgeous. In 2010, The Guinness Book of World Records said this film featured the most detailed CGI to date. Also, cruises are beautiful and fun experiences. Similar to the famous shot of the ship beginning its voyage in the Kathy Bates film Titanic, Poseidon opens with a 360-degree look at the entire ship in all its glory. Leading us through it is The Gambler as he goes on his daily run. He wears a coordinated tracksuit with a neatly tied scarf around his neck tucked into the jacket. Glamour. The passengers wear tuxedos and gowns. Dreyfuss has a single diamond stud in his ear. This movie looks and feels expensive.
The film industry was still in its adolescence in 1912, but it was already taking rapid strides towards maturity. The short flip card films viewed on customer-cranked Kinetoscopes and Mutoscopes in nickelodeons had given way to more elaborate films that were projected onto screens for audiences in movie theaters. These films were short (generally no more than one reel in length), and of course they were both silent and black-and-white, but they had already captured the imagination of a population eager for new forms of entertainment. The White Star line, proudly dedicated to sparing no expense in ensuring that its new flagship Titanic provided every luxury their passengers could desire, did not overlook this still relatively novel one: the Titanic carried its own projector and a complement of movies rented from the British office of a U.S. film distributor.
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