Denzel Washington, revered for his consistent hit rate as much as his talent when it comes to movie-making, reveals he knows he made some bad choices at an earlier stage in his career.  The double Oscar winner, who stars as slave owner Macrinus in Gladiator II, told The Times of London:  "After M…

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…

Denzel Washington is heading for Wakanda. The two-time Oscar winner, currently on a press run for Ridley Scott’s Gladiator sequel, told The Today Show Australia that Ryan Coogler is writing an unspecified role for him in the next Black Panther movie.  Washington let the role slip during the…

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: The Broadway revival of Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal has added to the cast with Andrew Burnap (The Inheritance, Disney’s upcoming live-action Snow White), Anthony Michael Lopez (Our Town, Camelot), Daniel Pearce (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and Kimber…

It’s the viral moment about women’s safety that has been dominating social media feeds this week, but Saoirse Ronan says she did not intend to spark the online discussion. The Irish actress shared The Graham Norton Show sofa with Paul Mescal, Eddie Redmayne, and Denzel Washington on Friday and talk…

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…

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…

Prepare to be entertained, promises the new look at Ridley Scott’s much-anticipated follow-up, Gladiator II. In a second epic trailer, Paul Mescal’s Lucius forms an uneasy alliance with Denzel Washington’s Macrinus, a Roman power player who uses the former’s fury as a tool for his own aims. “I will…