This weekend’s $70 million box office gross for 300 is a new March record, exceeding even Warner Bros. most optimistic expectations. However, the studio knew they had something special when, way back when, the film started tracking off the charts not just with men of...
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Did the Butler FINALLY do it? (Blog)
Did the Butler FINALLY do it? This weekend's release of 300, Zack Snyder's cinematic "translation" (to use Robert Rodriguez's term) of Frank Miller's well-known graphic novel has lots of people very excited, not the least of all comic book fans. I happen to be one of...
Bloody ‘300’ Makes an Epic $70 Million
[b]Surprise! Spartans Assault the Box Office[/b] LOS ANGELES (March 11) - Even a film business that expects big numbers is likely to be double-checking the box-office receipts for Warner Brothers 300 on Monday and asking, "What just happened?" The sword-and-sandals...
‘300’ bows to $70 million, sets new March record
Zack Snyder's epic battle movie "300," from Warner Bros. Pictures, conquered the North American boxoffice with numbers no one thought possible. Bowing to an estimated $70 million for the three-day frame, the adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel proved that...
‘300’ Takes No Prisoners
Film takes in just over $70 million '300' takes in just over $70 million at the weekend box office. Warner Bros.' bloody, f/x-heavy battle pic "300" made an outright assault on the B.O. over the weekend, mopping up just over $70 million and bludgeoning any negative...
Bloody epic “300” earns big numbers at box office
The blood-soaked ancient epic "300" slaughtered its foes at the weekend box office in North America, setting a new record for a March release by selling about $70 million worth of tickets, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday. The grim warrior tale stars...
Bloody epic “300” earns big numbers at box office
The blood-soaked ancient epic "300" slaughtered its foes at the weekend box office in North America, setting a new record for a March release by selling about $70 million worth of tickets, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday. The grim warrior tale stars...
300’s Glorious Excess / Excessive Glories
I will seriously do whatever you want if you stop yelling at me. Everything about 300 is extraordinary and over-the-top. The performances, the violence, the neo-con rhetoric, the reliance on computer-generated abs, the gore, the nudity, the slow-motion – everything....
” 300 ” posts box office triumph (Blog)
I took my family ( minus my wife-sorry hon! ) to see ” 300 “, and while my daughter really did not care for it, nor my Mom ( which pretty much means my wife would not have liked it either ) my daughter’s boyfriend Brett and I enjoyed it and my friend and sometime...
“300” racks up record body count at box office
Heads rolled at the weekend box office in North America as the blood-soaked ancient epic "300" slaughtered its foes in spectacular fashion. The grim warrior tale sold an estimated $70 million worth of tickets during its first three days of release, setting a new...
Win tickets to the UK premiere of 300 in London on March 15 2007
300, the chest-thumping, shot-by-shot film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae, is getting its UK premiere in London's Leicester Square on the evening of Thursday March 15 2007. We have four pairs of tickets to give away. The...
Gerard Butler Watches Himself on
This!!! Is!!! Sparta!!! Geez talk about self-love. Gerard sure as hell wanna know how the fans reacted to his bloody fantastic performance in 300! If you guys haven't watched 300 GO WATCH IT! Even Gerard has gone to watch it at Grove’s multiplex in Los Angeles, Calif....
300′ Pulls in $70 Million
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The ancient battle of Thermopylae was the stuff of 2007's first certified blockbuster as the bloody action tale "300" debuted with ticket sales of $70 million over its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. That's about $233,000 for...
Bloody epic “300” earns big numbers at box office
The blood-soaked ancient epic "300" slaughtered its foes at the weekend box office in North America, setting a new record for a March release by selling about $70 million worth of tickets, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday. The grim warrior tale stars...
‘300’ victorious at box office battle
Warner Bros.' bloody, f/x-heavy battle pic "300" made an outright assault on the B.O. over the weekend, hauling in just over $70 million off more than 3,100 theaters. Pic was the third biggest R-rated opening ever - behind "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Passion of the...
‘300’ Smashes March Opening Record
Spartans Stampede To $70 Mil Weekend; 'Ghost Rider' Revs Past $100 Mil Mark SUNDAY AM: It was a bloodbath at the U.S. box office this weekend. Warner Bros. told me this morning its 'R'-rated 300 about the epic Battle of Thermopylae shattered the record for biggest...
Audacious director redefines the epic battle
"300" retells the story of the Battle of Thermopylae. After a seven-month training regimen to get the Spartan look, Butler said, "I felt like a lion. I felt like a killer. I felt like a leader ferocious enough to take on such an army." Few modern men can look into the...
You want action? Unique ‘300’ delivers the goods
MACHISMO is dished out in big helpings when the Spartans stand up to the Persians in the latest version of the Battle of Thermopylae. The result, Zack Snyder's "300," is a wild testosterone cartoon that is neither historical nor hysterical but somewhere in between -...
ReelFanatic: 300 Review
When you're watching the spectacle that is Zack Snyder and Frank Miller's "300," I can certainly see why it's tempting to forget that this is simply a comic book movie. Granted, an ambitious and nearly flawlessly rendered one, but a comic book movie all the same. So,...
Then we will fight in the shade! (Blog)
One word for 300: ASTIG. Ok, actually I've got more than just one word 😛 I love the storyline. It's actually a fictionalized account of the Battle of Thermopylae, where Spartan King Leonidas led 300 elite Spartan warriors against Xerxes' massive Persian army....
Then we will fight in the shade! (Blog)
One word for 300: ASTIG. Ok, actually I've got more than just one word 😛 I love the storyline. It's actually a fictionalized account of the Battle of Thermopylae, where Spartan King Leonidas led 300 elite Spartan warriors against Xerxes' massive Persian army....
Immortal Combat
Gerard Butler is leading Spartan forces out of a graphic novel and on to the big screen in 300. Will Lawrence met him "I’m sorry, what was that? I’m afraid I was looking at the cleaner’s arse in that window over there.” He gesticulates with the cigarette dangling from...
‘300’: Full-bore gore
[b]A full-bore gore, total-immersion and visually thrilling battle experience that's not for the faint hearted[/b] All you sissies and pantywaists, out of the theatre. This means you, Skippy, cowering in the corner with your man purse and your granola bar. The Spartan...
Nothing Spartan about 300
Before there was an Alamo – or an Agincourt, or an Iwo Jima – there was the Battle of Thermopylae, ancient Greece's official entry in the "all-time great last stands" sweepstakes. From a numbers standpoint, it presents a nearly unbeatable scenario: 300 Spartans,...
Startling imagery of ‘300’ is something to see
Film doesn’t have fully rounded characters, but it is a visual spectacle When Rudolph Mate’s epic about the Battle of Thermopylae, “The 300 Spartans,” was released in 1962, it arrived at the tail end of Hollywood’s longest sword-and-sandals cycle. Critics and...