The time-travel adventure, facing competition from holdover The Lego Movie, is on course for an $8 million Friday and $32 million-plus weekend. PHOTOS: Best and Worst Moments of Oscars 2014Īlso opening nationwide Friday is DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox’s 3D animated event pic Mr. Snyder informed Canton and Nunnari that he would not be able to direct the 300 sequel but would remain a producer. Warners still hadn’t given the go-ahead to make Rise of an Empire when Snyder was offered a job directing the studio’s Superman reboot Man of Steel. But Frank Miller, who wrote the graphic novel upon which the first 300 was based, revealed that he was writing a follow-up that Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad would adapt for the big screen. However, a sequel was considered out of the question since most of the characters died, including the main character, played by Gerard Butler. Snyder’s 300, earning $456.1 million worldwide, was considered groundbreaking for its visual effects and greenscreen work. Warners and Legendary co-financed the $110 million sequel, which is also making a major international push. Producers Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton reteamed to make Rise of an Empire alongside Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Bernie Goldmann. Rise of an Empire won’t match the record-breaking $70.9 million domestic debut of the first 300 on the same weekend in 2007, but it’s still a promising start, considering changes in the marketplace in the intervening years (namely, the flight of male moviegoers) and the fact that Zack Snyder didn’t direct the sequel.
PHOTOS: 35 of 2014’s Most Anticipated Movies Stapleton, who plays a Greek general, hasn’t been available to do prerelease press for Rise of an Empire because of an accident in which he suffered a concussion, forcing his new Cinemax primetime drama Strike Back to go on hiatus.
Directed by Noam Murro this time out, Rise of an Empire stars Sullivan Stapleton and Eva Green and is set during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
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