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Pompeii (DVD Review)

September 14, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kiefer Sutherland, Jared Harris
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Running Time: 100 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: September 15th 2014 (UK)

It becomes clear fairly early on that director Paul W.S. Anderson would like Pompeii to be his Titanic – creating a movie that spends the first half building romance and intrigue before throwing a massive disaster at it, and then hoping the audience will be suitably moved. Indeed there are moments where the parallels become slightly overbearing.

However what Anderson seems to have forgotten is that he’s the director of Alien Vs. Predator, Death Race, The Three Musketeers and Soldier, all of which have had great ambition and plenty of good ideas but got crushed under his rather cack-handed and condescending approach to filmmaking. [Read more…]

Non-Stop Tops The US Box Office, Beating Out The Hotly Tipped Son Of God

March 3, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Going into the weekend box office watchers were uncertain whether Non-Stop or Son Of God would come out on top of the box office chart. In the end the win went to Liam Neeson’s Non-Stop, which took $30 million in its first three days. While not quite on a par with Taken 2, it beat Neeson’s other recent man-vs-the-world flicks, The Grey and Unknown.

Son Of God was in second spot with $26.5 million, which certainly isn’t bad for a film that’s essentially just a repackaged version of part of the The Bible miniseries that aired on TV last year. It took that amount of money despite reviews slating its television grade production values and clunky pacing and script, as well as a tongue in cheek Twitter hashtag suggesting Jesus was too good looking – #hotjesus. It just goes to show how much money you can make by appealing to the US religious folk.

Those were the only two new entries, although The LEGO Movie also had reason to cheer, as it crossed the $200 million mark at the US box office over the weekend.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of February 28th to March 2nd.

Rank	Title	Weekend Gross (millions)	Total Gross to date (millions)
1	Non-Stop	$30.0	$30.0
2	Son Of God	$26.5	$26.5
3	The LEGO Movie	$21.0	$209.3
4	The Monuments Men	$5.0	$65.6
5	3 Days To Kill	$4.9	$20.7
6	Robocop	$4.5	$51.2
7	Pompeii	$4.3	$17.7
8	Frozen	$3.6	$388.7
9	About Last Night	$3.4	$43.7
10	Ride Along	$3.0	$127.1

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FILMS: Non-Stop, Son Of God, The Lego Movie, The Monuments Men, Three Days To Kill, Robocop, Pompeii, Frozen, About Last Night, Ride Along

The Lego Movie Tops The US Box Office Again, With Pompeii Going Down In Flames

February 24, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The success of The LEGO movie continues with the film topping to US box office for a third week, taking an impressive $31.4 million. That makes for a total of $183 million so far. After this success, it’s little surprise Warner is already moving forward with a sequel.

The LEGO Movie completely obliterated the new competition, neither of which could scare up a huge amount of interest. 3 Days To Kill was in second spot with $12.3 million. It could have been worse as the movie didn’t cost a huge amount to produce, but it’s not a great start for the Kevin Costner action flick.

Going into the weekend, some were wondering if Pompeii would top the chart, but in the end it fizzled rather than erupted as the big budget movie barely took $10 million. It’s far less than most disaster movies, but at least it was a little higher than other recent effects-heavy bombs, The Legend Of Hercules and I, Frankenstein.

Take a look below for the box office top 10 for the weekend of February 21st-23rd 2014.

Rank	Title	Weekend Gross (millions)	Total Gross to date (millions)
1	The LEGO Movie	$31.4	$183.1
2	3 Days To Kill	$12.3	$12.3
3	Pompeii	$10.0	$10.0
4	Robocop	$9.4	$43.6
5	The Monuments Men	$8.1	$58.0
6	About Last Night	$7.4	$38.1
7	Ride Along	$4,6	$123.1
8	Frozen	$4.3	$384.0
9	Endless Love	$4,3	$20.1
10	Winter’s Tale	$2.1	$11.2

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FILMS: The Lego Movie, Three Days To Kill, Pompeii, Robocop (2013), The Monuments Men, About Last Night, Ride Along, Frozen, Endless Love, Winter's Tale

New Pompeii Poster Sees Kit Harington Having A Romantic Eruption

December 28, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

If I were standing next to a volcano that was spew lava bomb, magma and pyroclastic flows, I don’t think I’d bother to take the time to have a kiss, but it seems Kit Harington and Emily Browning think differently in this new poster for Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii.

The movie is set days before the historic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. It centres on former slave Milo (Harington), who must race to save his true love Flavia (Emily Browning). Jessica Lucas is playing a slave who is a confidante to Flavia. Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje also star.

Janet Scott Batchler and Lee Batchler wrote the original screenplay, which was revised by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. Paul W.S. Anderson’s movie is out in February. It’s certainly looking pretty epic, although is this poster is anything to go by, it’ll also be a little over the top.

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ACTORS: Kit Harington, Emily Browning DIRECTORS: Paul W.S. Anderson FILMS: Pompeii

New Pompeii Trailer – Kit Harington has a massive eruption

December 4, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Yesterday some new images from Pompeii arrived, and now they’ve been followed up by a new trailer, which shows off both Kit Harington’s abs and the fact it wasn’t a good idea to be living close to the famous Italian volcano in 79AD.

Janet Scott Batchler and Lee Batchler wrote the original screenplay, which was recently revised by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. Paul W.S. Anderson’s movie is out early next year. It’s certainly looking pretty epic, although also more than a bit over the top [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Kit Harington, Emily Browning DIRECTORS: Paul W.S. Anderson FILMS: Pompeii

Kit Harington & Keifer Sutherland Erupt In Three New Pics From Pompeii

December 3, 2013 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Early next year Pompeii will be getting destroyed once more, in 3D on cinema screens thanks to Paul WS Anderson’s movie. Now three new images have arrived, via USA Today, featuring an ashy Kit Harington and Emily Browning, as well and a very Roman Keifer Sutherland.

Sutherland comments, “It’s been a long time since I did a movie this big in scope. There are amazing computer effects, but only a third of the set was green screen. The rest was huge props, big sets, elaborate costumes, which I love.”

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ACTORS: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Keifer Sutherland DIRECTORS: Paul W.S. Anderson FILMS: Pompeii

Pompeii Teaser Trailer – Kit Harington mixes Gladiator with a disaster flick

August 22, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Just a couple of days ago, the first image from Pompeii arrived, with Kit Harington showing off his abs. Now it’s been followed up by a trailer, which initially concentrates on the famed remains of human found in the ruins of Pompeii, before going rather Gladiator with Harington, Emily Browning and some disaster movie volcano visuals.

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ACTORS: Kit Harington, Emily Browning DIRECTORS: Paul W.S. Anderson FILMS: Pompeii

Kit Harington Shows Off His Abs In A First Look At Pompeii

August 20, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Kit Harington is going from TV’s Game Of Thrones from the movies with Pompeii, Paul WS Anderson’s film centred on the fateful volcanic eruption. Now the first image from the movie has arrived, via EW, showing Harington and his rather impressive abs.

“This is the first scene you see me in,” commented Harington. “It’s set in London, in fact, and it’s a scene where my character is a gladiator fighting in an arena. That’s his gladiator look. It’s a great little fight against three masked gladiators and sets up who he is and where he’s going. You see me display my skills quite early on. It’s a costume I don’t actually wear for the rest of the film, but it’s an establishing one.”

That last sentence is likely to upset some.

Janet Scott Batchler and Lee Batchler wrote the original screenplay, which was recently revised by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. It’s due out early next year.

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ACTORS: Kit Harington DIRECTORS: Paul W.S. Anderson FILMS: Pompeii

Evil Dead’s Jessica Lucas Joins Pompeii

April 9, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Jessica Lucas had plenty of success this week with the US release of the remake of Evil Dead. Now she’s booked a new movie role as Deadline reports that she’ll star in Pompeii for director Paul W.S. Anderson.

The movie is set days before the historic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. It centres on former slave Milo (Kit Harington), who must race to save his true love Flavia (Emily Browning). Jessica Lucas is playing a slave who is a confidante to Flavia. Jared Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje also star.

Janet Scott Batchler and Lee Batchler wrote the original screenplay, which was recently revised by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. The film should start shooting in the next couple of months.

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ACTORS: Jessica Lucas, Kit Harington DIRECTORS: Paul W.S. Anderson FILMS: Pompeii

Kiefer Sutherland Heading For Pompeii, Playing The Villain

March 21, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The cast for Paul WS Anderson’s Pompeii is coming together fast, with Kit Harington, Emily Browning and Jared Harris added in the past couple of weeks. Now THR reports that Kiefer Sutherland is in final negotiations to portray the villain in the movie.

The movie is set in 79 A.D., with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) as Milo, a former slave-turned-gladiator, who must race back to Pompeii to save his true love Flavia (Emily Browning), as well as his best friend, when Vesuvius starts rumbling. Sutherland is set to play a Roman senator who enslaved Milo’s village and forces Flavia’s father (Jared Harris), Milo’s former master, to have his daughter marry the senator.

Paul WS Anderson is directing from a screenplay by Lee Batchler and Janet Scott Batchler, with rewrites by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. Shooting on the movie has already begun.

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ACTORS: Kiefer Sutherland DIRECTORS: Paul W.S. Anderson FILMS: Pompeii