Beginning on Tuesday, December 24, 12 a.m. Eastern Time—which is also December 23 at 9 p.m Pacific Time—Gladiator 2 will be available to buy digitally on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Vudu, and more ...

By the time Marcus Aurelius named his natural-born son Commodus his co-emperor and heir in AD 177, he was practically breaking with tradition. Since Commodus was sufficiently disastrous to play the ...

Gladiator II, the sequel to the original Gladiator, is an intense film about duty and legacy. It boasts both an impressive cast and direction under Ridley Scott. Unfortunately, a few critiques ...

The idea for a Gladiator sequel had been mulled since the success of the original, which was penned by the trio of David Franzoni (a producer on the new movie), John Logan and William Nicholson ...

Throughout the movie, she fights off the incestuous advances of her brother, Commodus. She is also the mother of Lucius. Nielsen is one of the few original actors who returned for the sequel.

Below him is the familial drama with Lucilla, Commodus, and Marcus Aurelius. Then there’s everything else, like the Roman Senate. In Gladiator II , Lucius is the protagonist on a path toward ...

While Gladiator's gutwrenching ending sees Maximus defeat Commodus and reunite with his wife and son in the afterlife, Gladiator 2 uses Lucilla and Marcus Acacius' deaths as its emotional core.

In the year 211 A.D., presumably also when "Gladiator II" takes place, brothers named Caracalla and Geta briefly ruled as dual emperors of Rome after their father, Septimius Severus, appointed ...

It became the second highest grossing movie of the year – raking in $465.4 million, not adjusted for inflation – and was the most-nominated film at the 2001 Academy Awards with 12 nods, and 5 ...

That has its highs and lows; Gladiator II is actually a far better action movie than Gladiator, with leaner fights and wider-angled staging.(The 2000 movie, for all its Oscar glory, is a shaky-cam ...

However well Gladiator II does, one thing’s for sure: It could have been weirder. Like, a lot weirder. For proof, one need only consider the version they didn’t make — a particular, rejected ...

Russell Crowe as Maximus in 'Gladiator' (2000). Ridley Scott’s 2000 film Gladiator was a sensational tale of honor and betrayal in the ancient Roman empire. In the film, Rome’s dying emperor ...