The Legend of Hercules

Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Joseph Fiennes, Peter Mullan, John Hurt, Aksel Hennie, Ingrid Berdal, Reece Ritchie, Tobias Santelmann. Rebecca Ferguson, and Isaac Andrews
Screenwriter: Ryan Condal, Evan Spiliotopoulos
Produced by: Beau Flynn, Barry Levine, and Brett Ratner
Directed by: Brett Ratner
Distributor: Paramount Pictures and MGM
Release Date: July 25, 2014

When two similarly-themed movies emerge in quick succession, it’s usually better to function as the first one out of the gate. In 2013, “White House Down” ought to marketing, a bigger budget and also the Channing Tatum factor, but it couldn’t escape the shadow of the other terrorists-kidnap-the-president movie, “Olympus Has Fallen,” which arrived on the scene a few months earlier and brought in more money domestically. Read more…