Release: April 06, 2010
Publisher: Warner Bros.
Audio: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
Video: 2.4:1 1080p
Discs: 1
It’s New Year’s Eve on the Poseidon. Partying voyagers toast the future. The future comes in a rush: a 150-foot rogue wave flips the cruise ship over…and a struggle to survive begins. Director Wolfgang Petersen (The Perfect Storm) returns to the sea with a thrill-packed, cutting-edge screen adaptation of Paul Gallico’s novel The Poseidon Adventure. Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum and more play passengers who must rely on each other as they seek safety through the water, flames and wreckage of an upside-down world. Read the rest of this entry…

OutFilmCT, which is revving up for the 23rd Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in May and June, is hosting a screening this weekend to raise money for the fest. Dare is Adam Salky’s drama about a bunch of youths exploring their sexuality and sexual orientation. It stars Ashley Springer, Rooney Mara and Emmy Rossum (Phantom of the Opera), along with Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer and Sandra Bernhard. The film, which is 90 minutes long and unrated, will be shown in a one-time-only screening Sunday, April 4, at 5 p.m. at Cinestudio, 300 Summit St., on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford. Admission is $8, $7 with student ID. For more details, visit outfilmct.org

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Emmy Rossum will star opposite William H. Macy in John Wells’ pilot Shameless for Showtime. Allison Janney has also signed on for a key recurring role. Lastly, Justin Chatwin has been cast in this pilot from Warner Bros. TV and John Wells Prods. The show is based on the long-running British series by top U.K. TV writer Paul Abbott. It revolves around the Gallaghers, they are a working-class Chicago clan dealing with the recession. The mother is absent, and the alcoholic parent (Macy) always ends up passed out on the living room floor. Eventually, their 18-year-old daughter Fiona (Rossum) takes on the role of keeping her five younger brothers and sisters on the right track. Janney will play a love interest for Macy. Chatwin is going to be Steve, a car thief who falls for Fiona. Mark Mylod will be directing the pilot from a screenplay by Abbott and Wells.