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Apocalypto (/ ə ˌ p ɒ k ə ˈ l ɪ p t oʊ /) is a 2006 epic historical action-adventure film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia.The film features a cast of Indigenous and Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez ...
Horner had previously composed the score for Gibson's 1993 The Man Without a Face and his 1995 epic film Braveheart. Straying away from his repertoire of orchestral music, Horner's mainly improvised Apocalypto soundtrack makes use of a large array of exotic instruments, such as the Tromba Marina , Swedish bark trumpets and the usage of Ugandan ...
The first film in the series, also known as Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm, was released in 1998.Skeptic Bronson Pearl (Richard Nester) and Christian Helen Hannah (Leigh Lewis) are award-winning journalists caught in a frantic race against time to alert the world of the deadly deception of Franco Macalousso (Sam Bornstein), President of the European Union, and soon to be recognized ...
Spanish, like English, borrows many religious terms from Greek. So yes, Apocalypto can feasibly be a Maya word. Whether it actually is, I don't know. Bubbha 05:08, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Whether it is or it isn't, it's unlikely to be a Mayan word in contemporary use during the period depicted in the film.
In the film, the ancient mutant En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse is inadvertently revived in 1983 and plans to recreate the world in his own image, leading the X-Men to try to stop him and defeat his team of mutants. The film was announced by Singer in December 2013, with Kinberg, Dougherty, and Harris attached to develop the story.
The film grossed $26,000 in its first week in Washington, DC. [26] MGM had become aware by April that the film would not recoup its cost and started to write off its losses. [27] By May it had written off $3 million on the film. [28] Ultimately the movie earned $1,600,000 in theatrical rentals in the US and Canada and $2,500,000 overseas. When ...
Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic romantic action-adventure drama film produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Karl Gajdusek and Michael deBruyn, starring Tom Cruise in the main role alongside Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Melissa Leo in supporting roles.
The film's depiction of war is the best I've seen since Saving Private Ryan." [94] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three and a half out of five, writing: "Thanks to some of the greatest battle scenes ever filmed, Gibson once again shows his staggering gifts as a filmmaker, able to juxtapose savagery with aching tenderness."