A fantastic flop with Gerard Butler has found a new life in streaming. Butler is an Scottish actor who had his escape role in the 2007 300in which he played King Leonidas. Since then, he appeared in a number of notable films, including the animation How to train your dragon Trilogy and novels PS I love you And The ugly truth.
However, action films Gerard Butler constitute most of his filmography. These include major tubes such as the Olympus fell moviesin which he plays the fearless agent of secret service Mike Banning, the catastrophe film Geostormand more recent outings such as Plane,, GreenlandAnd Den of thieves: Pantera.
Gods of Egypt obtained a place on a major streaming graphic
Gerard Butler fantasy film in 2016 Gods of Egypt Now goes to a major Netflix graphic. The film, which takes place in the world of Egyptian mythology, follows the Mortel Bek (Brenton Thwaites) being found in the middle of a battle between the gods.
The film, directed by Alex Proyas (The crow), also played Gerard Butler as set, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau like Horus, Geoffrey Rush like Ra, Bryan Brown like Osiris, Rufus Sewell like Urshu and Chadwick Boseman as Thoth. Before his release, The film was strongly criticized for having turned the majority of its Egyptian characters.
In addition to Gods of Egypt Casting controversial, the film was a critical and commercial failure. In addition to winning a lamentable score of 15% with an audience score of 37% on the popcornmeter of the platform, it was a bomb at the box office, It was only $ 150.6 million against its $ 140 million budget of $ 140 million.
After arriving on the streaming platform on August 7, Gods of Egypt Trend to everyday life Netflix Graphic of their 10 best watched films in the United States. He appeared for the first time in n ° 9 on August 9, reaching n ° 4 the next day before spending two consecutive days and finally settled in n ° 6 to 14 August.
At the time of writing The only films above Gods of Egypt on the American table are considerably recent titlesincluding Netflix originals Fixed (No. 5), Happy Gilmore 2 (N ° 3), and Kpop demon hunters (N ° 1), the Rom-Com 2022 Marry meand the action thriller in 2023 Kandaharwhich also features Gerard Butler.
What it means for the gods of Egypt
The fact that both Gods of Egypt And Kandahar Make the Netflix graph in the United States Probably the result of the live action How to train your dragon The remake becomes a major success this summer. It is The fifth most profitable film of the year so far with world transport of $ 623.7 million.
In this film, Gerard Butler Resumed his role as Viking Chieftain Stoick Le vast, who seems to have rekindled his interest in his previous action and fantastic titles, even those who were initially ignored when they were originally. If this results in an improvement in Gods of EgyptThe popcornmeter score remains to be seen.
Gods of Egypt
3/ 10
- Release date
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February 26, 2016
- Execution time
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126 minutes
- Director
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Alex Proyas
- Writers
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Burk Sharpless, Matt Sazama
