‘300: Rise of an Empire’ Hollywood Premiere Celebrates Strong Female Leads "At the head of it, there’s an unapologetic woman as strong as any male lead," said director Noam Murro at the ...

300: Rise of an Empire 300: Rise of an Empire Movie Box office report: 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman' beats 'Need for Speed' Box office update: 'Need for Speed' takes lead on Friday with $6.6M ...

Man, woman, gay, straight, bi: There’s something for everyone in 300: Rise of an Empire, the XXL sequel to the also-larger-than-life Greeks-in-shinguards extravaganza 300. In that picture ...

Gazing at actor Michael Fassbender’s fine tuxedoed self as he celebrated “12 Years a Slave’s” historic win at the Academy Awards earlier this week, it was hard to believe that seven years ...

‘300: Rise of an Empire’: The Making of an Impossible Sequel UPDATED: Zack Snyder reunited with producers Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton to produce and co-write the follow-up, which took 7 ...

But even if the events of “Rise of an Empire” take place at virtually the same time as those in “300,” they’re being regaled to audiences seven years later — and to present them with a ...

In the end, if "300: Rise of an Empire" is not technically a sequel, it's a sequel in spirit - an attempt to do something a second time, but with none of the same feeling, inspiration or vision.

If “300” was largely a boys-only affair, “Rise of an Empire” very much belongs to the women — specifically one woman named Artemisia (Green), who sports a warrior’s stoic countenance ...

300: Rise of an Empire is the follow-up to perhaps the most homoerotic film of all time, 300 - a film whose obsession with the well-lubricated muscularity of the male form was matched only by its ...

“Rise of an Empire” is both prequel and sequel to “300,” its narrative wrapping around the 2007 film’s story. It revisits the final shot, with Leonidas’ warriors dead, peppered with ...

All of which is most true of 300: Rise of an Empire, as well as setting the bar pretty darn high for the future cinematic arrival of Wonder Woman -- ah, but I'll get to all of that momentarily.

Poor Themistocles, women everywhere are sexually harassing him, and the stodgy old guard in Athens wants to acquiesce to the oncoming Persians. Rise of an Empire ’s storyline takes a long time ...