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ROME: Three people died and several were missing Saturday after a cruise ship with more than 4000 people on board ran aground and keeled over off an Italian island, sparking chaos as passengers scrambled to get off. “There are three certified dead,” Guiseppe Linardi, the top official in Grossetto told Italian media, explaining that difficulties in mounting the rescue of passengers had led to confusion over the death toll. The Costa Concordia was on a trip around the Mediterranean when it apparently hit a reef near the Isola del Giglio on Friday as passengers were sitting down for dinner. Some of the passengers jumped into the icy waters. “There were scenes of panic like on the Titanic. We ran aground on rocks near the Isola del Giglio. I don’t know how this could happen. The captain is crazy,” Mara Parmegiani, a passenger, was quoted by Italian media as saying. “We were very scared and freezing because it happened while we were at dinner so everyone was in evening wear. We definitely didn’t have time to get anything else. They gave us blankets but there weren’t enough,” she said. Cruise ship worker Fabio Costa was quoted by the BBC as saying: “Everything just started to fall and everybody started to panic and run. We had no idea how serious it was until we got out and we looked through the window and we saw the water coming closer and closer. Everything happened really really fast.” “Everybody tried to get on the boats but people started to panic so they were pushing each …

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When a rogue wave capsizes a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. Preferring to test the odds alone, career gambler Dylan Johns ignores captain’s orders to wait below for possible rescue and sets out to find his own way to safety. What begins as a solo mission soon draws others, as Dylan is followed by a desperate father searching for his daughter and her fiancee–a young couple who hours before couldn’t summon the courage to tell him they were engaged and now face much graver challenges. Along the way they are joined by a single mother and her wise-beyond-his-years son, an anxious stowaway and a despondent fellow passenger who boarded the ship not sure he wanted to live but now knows he doesn’t want to die. Determined to fight their way to the surface, the group sets off through the disorienting maze of twisted steel in the upside-down wreckage. As the unstable vessel rapidly fills with water each must draw on skills and strengths they didn’t even know they possessed, fighting against time for their own survival and for each other. Genres: Action/Adventure, Adaptation and Remake Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min. Release Date: May 12th, 2006 (wide) MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril. Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures International Production Co.: Irwin Allen Productions, Synthesis …

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