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  • Gladiator II

    11/24/2024 10:16:14 AM PST · by Mean Daddy · 109 replies
    Wife and I love movies so we got our tickets for Gladiator II last night. Got there about 5:45 for a 6:00 showing and no one was there so I had to double check time/theater etc. Handful of people showed up, but it has to been one of the worst movies I've ever seen and were big Denzel Washington fans. One little nugget, they flooded the coliseum and had a battle between two boats of gladiators with the coliseum teeming in sharks. The next day, the coliseum floor was bone dry.
  • Can Gladiator II save a genre — and a studio? It would be nearly impossible to compete with the original

    07/09/2024 7:05:40 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 54 replies
    The Spectator ^ | 07/09/2024 | Alexander Larman
    The trailer for Ridley Scott’s new epic, Gladiator II, is undeniably impressive, but then it rather had to be. Rumors that its already massive budget had ballooned to as much as $310 million — which would mean it would have to be one of 2024’s highest-grossing movies just to break even, never mind making a profit — may have suggested that the film was in trouble, but an early screening of the preview at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas reassured exhibitors and studios alike, with the few journalists who had seen the footage rushing to extol its scale and...