The special features on the DVD include deleted scenes and a Behind-the-Scenes featurette called It’s No Myth. Cool, right? Yeah, well on the Blu-Ray you get those features, an alternate opening called Young Theseus, two alternate endings called This Is Our Last Embrace and (SPOILER alert, we guess) Theseus Kills Hyperion, and another Behind-the-Scenes featurette enticingly titled Caravaggio Meets Fight Club. And guess what? If you buy the Blu-Ray, you’ll also get a graphic novel titled Immortals: Gods & Heroes.
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Immortals at #1 knocks Puss off its mountain with $32m opening
Immortals hit the box office this weekend and performed higher than originally expected grossing $32m. These aren’t titan earnings. The are rather good in this economy, but thoughts are with expecting higher grosses on a holiday weekend. Immortals opened Friday at approximately 900 locations offering midnight showings in 3D earning $1.4m. As Immortals expanded to over 3000 multiplexes nationwide, its final weekend performance came in down $4m from the revised weekend pace. 3D ticket sales, offered at a higher price point, did not bring in substantial revenue as compared to its 2D counterpart. Fanboy support for the genre and the actor(s) has been awarded credit with helping to make Immortals reach the numbers it did. [Read More]
Henry Cavill has got pecs appeal
The actor strips off for several action-packed fight scenes, unveiling a body that’s clearly benefitted from hours invested at the gym.Henry – who appears in all his topless glory in our exclusive behind-the-scenes feauturette below – stars in the film alongside Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto and John Hurt.
The 28-year-old recently revealed the intensive training he packed in after receiving a last-minute offer from director Tarsem Singh to play lead character Theseus in the fantasy epic.
I just added 81 new HQ pictures of Henry at “Immortals” red carpet. Check it:
UPDATED: If fanboys continue to turn out in strong numbers, Relativity’s fantasy action-epic could win the weekend crown over Adam Sandler’s new comedy “Jack and Jill,” which is in a close Friday race with family pic “Puss in Boots”
Relativity Media’s R-rated action-epic Immortals, headlining Henry Cavill, grossed $1.4 million in midnight grosses from 900 theaters.
Looking past Henry Cavill’s infinitely blue eyes and goofy grin, it’s not difficult to imagine the 28-year-old British actor transforming into an extremely intense dude as he describes the roughest day he experienced on the “Immortals” set — grasping the complex choreography for the film’s epic final battle.
“I was literally learning it minutes before doing it,” said Cavill during a recent interview to promote the mythological 3-D action flick. “That was fun and a great challenge, but I’m a bit of a perfectionist, and I get pissed off at myself if I don’t get it exactly right.”
