Poseidon: Box office tide rises, doesn't lift all boats

Not that people didn’t see this wave coming, but whenever a $150 movie capsizes this spectacularly, it causes the whole business to reassess its moorings.

While it’s too early to say that there will be no survivors from “Poseidon,” it doesn’t look good. Nowadays, a picture sinks or swims increasingly on its overseas business. For example, “Kingdom of Heaven” and “Troy” were both kind of duds here, and still managed to do swimmingly overseas.