A Roman culture expert reveals which of Ridley Scott’s arena battles are based on real history — and which are “fun, but ...

Ridley Scott was eager for his movie "Gladiator II" to be as faithful as possible to real history, but he's blunt on whether ...

Sharks? Maybe not. But sea battles, semi-aquatic creatures and plenty of other eye-popping spectacles were part of the ...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The catastrophe famously entombed, and preserved, the city’s villas, workshops, ...

Sequel to Ridley Scott's Oscar-winner has it all: a hot star, sharks, monkeys, decapitations and a campy Denzel Washington.

Imagine if Donald Trump fought a lion. I'm sure he would have a huge audience.”) The hairless baboons that appear in a smaller arena earlier in Gladiator II are a fictional invention ...

"Wicked" had the biggest opening weekend for a movie adaptation of a Broadway show. Here's how it compares to other ...

The image of a gladiator standing tall on top of a charging rhino flying through the Roman Colosseum became one of the ...

Ridley Scott stuffs the sequel with as much bread and circuses as its 148-minute running time can support.

From Gladiator II to The Brutalist, these are the movies in serious contention for the big awards this season.

Wicked and Gladiator II, two of the year’s most-anticipated films, brought in a combined $168 million in weekend sales at US ...

The record-holder for a Broadway adaptation opening weekend is Into The Woods, which took $31m in 2014. Jon Favreau’s The ...