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KOH review
posted by Jas, 05/09/05
Ain't It Cool has posted another review of Kingdom of Heaven
Elizabethtown reviews
posted by Jas, 05/09/05
A review of Elizabethtown has been posted on the IMDb Message Boards
KOH Video downloads
posted by Jas, 05/09/05
In case OBM goes down tomorrow, videos posted here the last few days are now also available for download at ElfLady site, EL is now back from the New York premiere and she has put the videos up on her server. Click here for videos from Penny and here for videos from Jennifer
KOH Interview - CTV News
posted by Jas, 05/09/05
CTV News has an interview with Orlando from New York during the NY premiere for Kingdom of Heaven. Watch it here. Download clip here (4.2 mb, hosted at RapidShare)
KOH London premiere review
posted by Jas, 05/09/05
Tonny attended the Kingdom of Heaven premiere in London and posted a report and pictures here
KOH review on Bulgarian TV
posted by Jas, 05/09/05
'Orli' reports: The Kingdom of Heaven just got reviewed on the national TV. On the show called Elite the movie was said to be as better as Gldiator, and that Orlando's acting skills are equal as Russel Crow's. They even said that the movie deserves an oscar! Also I attended the premiere of the movie in the largest cinema in the capital of Bulgaria and there were many people, I wasn't even able to get a ticket for the time I wanted, and I had to wait an hour for the next one, the movie is great success here, I will send the box-office results when the week is over!
Crusades film fuels religious debate
posted by Jas, 05/09/05
BBC News has a video clip about the debate sparked by Kingdom of Heaven, with junket interview with Orlando and Ridley. I'm not putting this video up for download as we've seen the junket before. Watch video here
KOH performance at the Box Office
posted by Jas, 05/09/05
Reports on Kingdom of Heaven performace at the box office in US over the weekend.
From Reuters
The lucrative summer moviegoing season suffered its worst start in years on Sunday, as the costly Crusades epic "Kingdom of Heaven" crawled into the No. 1 slot at the North American weekend box office with meager ticket sales of just $20 million. The film, which cost nearly $150 million to produce, stars Orlando Bloom -- "Hollywood's No. 1 pretty boy," according to Rolling Stone magazine -- as a humble French blacksmith who takes on the Arabs during the 12th century. Full report
From Box Office Prophets
The number one film at the box office this weekend is Kingdom of Heaven, Ridley Scott's epic Crusades tale from Fox. If execs were looking for opening weekend numbers like Troy's $46.9 million or Gladiator's $34.8 million, they were extremely disappointed this morning. Kingdom of Heaven grossed a slow $20 million this weekend from 3216 screens, 278 more than Gladiator, but 195 less than Troy. It had a lackluster venue average of $6,218, and given the wide release, Fox is in some trouble on this one, as Kingdom carries a negative cost of $130 million. It's not a surprise – tracking was right on target, so at least execs knew what was coming.
Summer movie marketing is not breaking through early this year, as we had two films open this weekend that could have behaved like summer openers, and for some reason did not (much like last weekend). I think you really have to look at the marketing, as it is getting extremely tired. In addition, Orlando Bloom is not a leading man, and a strange choice to topline a $130 million dollar blockbuster. Also, reviews for Kingdom weren't great, meaning they create any decent buzz leading up to release. Of the 134 reviews at RottenTomatoes, only 56 were positive, leading to a 42% rotten rating. It wasn't all bad, the average out of ten from the more serious critics was a 6/10, which in these days of really bad movies, most moviegoers will take a 6. The good news for Fox is that this should play extremely well in international markets and on DVD, and make a nickel somewhere down the line – but in terms of summer openings, this one is well down the list. Full report
From BBC
Kingdom of Heaven, starring Orlando Bloom, has gone straight to the top of North American box office chart. Kingdom of Heaven's $20m is seen as a poor performance for one of the summer's first blockbusters. In the same weekend in previous years, Van Helsing took $52m, X2: X-Men United made $86m and Spider-Man opened with $115m in 2002. But the film's studio Fox said it was "delighted" with the performance given its two-and-a-half hour running time, R rating and $56m (£29.7m) takings outside North America. The slump is expected to end next weekend when the final Star Wars film, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, hits screens. Full report
From Bloomberg
News Corp.'s crusader epic "Kingdom of Heaven,'' starring Orlando Bloom, opened as the top-grossing film in the U.S. and Canada over the weekend with an estimated $20 million in ticket sales. "It's a decent opening but nothing to celebrate wildly over,'' said Gitesh Pandya, chief executive officer of movie tracker Boxofficeguru.com "The American public has been inundated with epic war movies.'' Full report
The ordeals of Orlando
posted by Jas, 05/09/05
An article about Orlando from the New York Daily News, nothing that we don't already know but they posted this picture which I've never seen before, is it new?
Hi-res pics
posted by Jas, 05/09/05, from Ka-Bloom Board
Tina posted hi-res pictures of Orlando at the London premiere and New York premiere of Kingdom of Heaven
