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Article: NBC 'Poseidon' surfaces.(National Broadcasting Company Inc. plans release of 'The Poseidon Adventure')
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- March 18, 2005
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HOLLYWOOD -- Wolfgang Petersen's big-budget remake of "The Poseidon Adventure"--one of Warner Bros.' major tentpoles for summer 2006--is getting some competition from an unexpected source: NBC.
In an unusual move, the Peacock net has snatched up a Robert Halmi-produced adaptation of novelist Paul Gallico's "Poseidon Adventure" that had been headed to cable's Hallmark Channel.
Four-hour pic--starRing Steve Guttenberg, Peter Weller, Rutger Hauer, Bryan Brown and Adam Baldwin, and made for an estimated $20 million--went into production with little fanfare late last year and has already wrapped lensing.
Because the movie is already in the can, NBC ...