A ship-to-shore invasion with fleets of Roman battleships fighting with trebuchets and thousands of archers. A naval duel to the death inside a flooded, shark-infested coliseum. A fight against a rampaging rhino, and hand-to-hand combat with a pissed-off hairless, snarling, possibly rabid baboon. Nobody…

Twenty-four years after Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator reinvented the swords and sandals genre, its sequel, Gladiator II, is finally entering the arena. Paramount began overseas rollout Wednesday on the continuation of Ridley Scott's Roman Empire action saga. Through Friday, 63 international box…

Denzel Washington is revealing that a same-sex kiss was cut from Gladiator II. In a new interview, Washington, who plays Macrinus in the Ridley Scott film, was asked, “How gay is the Roman empire?” “I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken,&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: Every interview Ridley Scott has done with Deadline has turned into a master class on his cinematic exercises in world creation, ranging from Alien, to Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Blackhawk Down, Napoleon, Prometheus, The Martian and Gladiator to name just a few. He’s back 25 years after Glad…

Sir Ridley Scott didn’t make his first feature film (1977’s The Duellists) until he was 40 years old. The director, turning 87 at the end of this month, has not wasted any time making up for that late start with a remarkable array of landmark films including Blade Runner, Alien, Thelma and Louise, The Mart…

EXCLUSIVE: As they globally barnstorm their Paramount epic Gladiator II, director Ridley Scott and Paul Mescal will jump right back in the ring together. Scott has set as his next directorial outing The Dog Stars at 20th Century, with Paul Mescal in advance negotiations to star. Mark L. Smith…

Joaquin Phoenix made his breakout performance in 2000’s Gladiator, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Nearly 25 years later, director Ridley Scott revealed that Phoenix nearly dropped out of the role of Commodus at the last minute, which resulted in co-star…

Though Gladiator II finds star Paul Mescal courageously fighting rhinos in the Colosseum, he had to work to summon up that fearlessness to meet Denzel Washington, his Academy Award-winning co-star in the Ridley Scott follow-up. During a Friday appearance on The Graham Norton Show, alongside Saoirse…

Paul Mescal has revealed that he won his role in Gladiator II after one 30-minute Zoom call with director Ridley Scott.  The Irish actor stars alongside Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal and Connie Nielsen in the sequel to Scott's 2000 Gladiator, due for release in November.  Mescal spoke about…

Are you not entertained? Because just about everyone who’s seen Gladiator II is taking to social media in praise of Ridley Scott‘s highly-anticipated sequel. Although at least one viewer argued that the followup is “largely uneven and lacks the emotional punch of the first film,” many of the first…

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II is set to be released 24 years after the original film hit theaters, but fans of the saga might not have to wait long for its third installment. The filmmaker has revealed he’s already begun working on the script for the potential Gladiator III. “I've already got…

Paramount and Ridley Scott's anticipated sequel, Gladiator II, has been set as a Royal Film Performance, the studio and the Film and TV Charity announced this morning. The world premiere will be held in London on November 13, with red carpet footage streamed to 30 cinemas hosting regional premieres across…