The Kingdom (US - DVD R1 | HD)
Universal has now confirmed the official street date as well as the disc specs
Title: The Kingdom
Starring: Jamie Foxx
Released: 26th December 2007
SRP: $29.98
Further Details:
Universal Home Video has officially announced The Kingdom which stars Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, and Jennifer Garner. This Peter Berg directed film will be available to own from the 26th December, and should retail at around $29.98. The film itself will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. Extras will include a director commentary, deleted scenes, a Character by Character: The Apartment Shootout featurette, a Constructing the Freeway Sequence featurette, a Creating The Kingdom featurette, and a History of The Kingdom: An Interactive Timeline feature. A HD DVD/DVD combo release will also be available for $39.98 with identical features.
News by Tom Woodward
Starring: Jamie Foxx
Released: 26th December 2007
SRP: $29.98
Further Details:
Universal Home Video has officially announced The Kingdom which stars Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, and Jennifer Garner. This Peter Berg directed film will be available to own from the 26th December, and should retail at around $29.98. The film itself will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. Extras will include a director commentary, deleted scenes, a Character by Character: The Apartment Shootout featurette, a Constructing the Freeway Sequence featurette, a Creating The Kingdom featurette, and a History of The Kingdom: An Interactive Timeline feature. A HD DVD/DVD combo release will also be available for $39.98 with identical features.
News by Tom Woodward
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I heard it was confused not knowing if it wants to be an action film or a political thriller. I hear it's a decent action film but the political elements feel awkward and tacked on.
This movie was awesome. So what if it wasn't a heady political thriller. It's an action movie first and foremost and in that sense, it really delivers.
One of my favorite films this year. The action topped the political elements for sure, but the action WAS great and the film remained powerful. I'd love to see this in HD.
HAHAAAA a quote by Maxim magaizne, lol. Okay never the less yah this was a great movie, but god damn that is an awful quote.
GREAT MOVIE!!!!
This one totally rocked. One of my favorites so far this year. Definite purchase.
Decent flick.
Spoilers:
Here's my problem with the movie: for two thirds of the film, the cast is doing this great police work and tradecraft and it's all going swimmingly, while in the background lurks another car bomb. Cool. So with all this policework, does the cast figure it all out? Nope. The bad guys are dropped into their laps while speeding down a highway and then they chase them to this apartment building and lo and behold there's the main villain. What was the point of all the police work if the plot is going to do the work for them?
Otherwise good film. I loved the ending with Jamie Foxx and the boy saying the same thing.
Spoilers:
Here's my problem with the movie: for two thirds of the film, the cast is doing this great police work and tradecraft and it's all going swimmingly, while in the background lurks another car bomb. Cool. So with all this policework, does the cast figure it all out? Nope. The bad guys are dropped into their laps while speeding down a highway and then they chase them to this apartment building and lo and behold there's the main villain. What was the point of all the police work if the plot is going to do the work for them?
Otherwise good film. I loved the ending with Jamie Foxx and the boy saying the same thing.
Why the hell does every movie quote Pete Hammond from Maxim? I mean, they're good movies, but the Maxim quotes just look horrible. And did it really bomb that bad? That was really quick.
I really hope they don't change the Artwork, that looks awesome....So intense.
It sounds like it did well in The States. Over here it was out for a few weeks then disappeared.
Judging by the cover, Jason Bateman's appearance in the trailer was a coincidence.
Saw this a couple of weeks back - it was decent enough, even though I don't really like Foxx, I would have no doubt in picking up the HD DVD if not for the Combo Format - Universal really needs to stop making these Combo Format thing...
Bradavon wrote: It sounds like it did well in The States.
Actually it flopped. The budget was around 80 million, and so far it's only made around 40.
Actually it flopped. The budget was around 80 million, and so far it's only made around 40.
I don't get how the critical reception was so lukewarm. This was actually a pretty smart action-thriller.
Thanks Chris.
I wonder if national and international sales will tip it over 80 million then.
BoBoi wrote: Universal really needs to stop making these Combo Format thing...
Agreed. I actually like them but the price hike annoys me too much.
Even Warner have now re-released their Combos as standard HD-DVDs.
I wonder if national and international sales will tip it over 80 million then.
BoBoi wrote: Universal really needs to stop making these Combo Format thing...
Agreed. I actually like them but the price hike annoys me too much.
Even Warner have now re-released their Combos as standard HD-DVDs.
Perhaps it flopped because people don't see the need to be respectful or neutral about a country that:
Bans completely all other religions bar Islam.
Has religious Police that literally beat you in the streets for not wearing the right clothes or failing to pray when you should (they literally scared one old man to death recently because he dared to wash his car when he should have been on one of his 5 prayers that day).
Was the home of most of the 9/11 scumbags.
That confiscates Bibles from planes if the plane even passes Saudi airspace.
That bans Jews from visiting.
That is the home of quite frankly the most prejudiced, nasty,Jihad loving offshoot of Islam in the world, Wahabism.
That hacks off heads for many supposed crimes.
That publically flogs Homosexuals (2 were recently given **7000** lashes each).
That bans women from driving, riding bikes, form being in the same room as any man not her Husband, from taking certain jobs and from having anything but the most basic of education (if at all).
Jennifer Garner would be arrested 1 minute after she stepped out onto the pavement!!!
That forces couples to get a divorce if one is Muslim and one is not.
That legally, automatically, treats a women's testimony to her rape as presumption and the man's as fact.
That forbids any and all criticism of the Government by threat of arrest and any criticism of Islam with the threat of death.
And that practices the most dreadful religious apartheid, that would have made white South Africa jealous, to anyone not Muslim (including seperate roads, seating, etc etc)
I fail to see anything grey there or anything to 'understand'.
"The kingdom" was yet more liberal hokum made by people who should be very thankful that any aspect of Saudi rule is nowhere to be seen in America.
Nor does any sane person see 'The Kingdom' of Saudi as ANY kind of allie.
Movies like this do not exist in a Hollywoodland bubble of cinematic fantasy. They tend to forget that though... but the audience does not.
Bans completely all other religions bar Islam.
Has religious Police that literally beat you in the streets for not wearing the right clothes or failing to pray when you should (they literally scared one old man to death recently because he dared to wash his car when he should have been on one of his 5 prayers that day).
Was the home of most of the 9/11 scumbags.
That confiscates Bibles from planes if the plane even passes Saudi airspace.
That bans Jews from visiting.
That is the home of quite frankly the most prejudiced, nasty,Jihad loving offshoot of Islam in the world, Wahabism.
That hacks off heads for many supposed crimes.
That publically flogs Homosexuals (2 were recently given **7000** lashes each).
That bans women from driving, riding bikes, form being in the same room as any man not her Husband, from taking certain jobs and from having anything but the most basic of education (if at all).
Jennifer Garner would be arrested 1 minute after she stepped out onto the pavement!!!
That forces couples to get a divorce if one is Muslim and one is not.
That legally, automatically, treats a women's testimony to her rape as presumption and the man's as fact.
That forbids any and all criticism of the Government by threat of arrest and any criticism of Islam with the threat of death.
And that practices the most dreadful religious apartheid, that would have made white South Africa jealous, to anyone not Muslim (including seperate roads, seating, etc etc)
I fail to see anything grey there or anything to 'understand'.
"The kingdom" was yet more liberal hokum made by people who should be very thankful that any aspect of Saudi rule is nowhere to be seen in America.
Nor does any sane person see 'The Kingdom' of Saudi as ANY kind of allie.
Movies like this do not exist in a Hollywoodland bubble of cinematic fantasy. They tend to forget that though... but the audience does not.
Bradavon wrote: Thanks Chris.
I wonder if national and international sales will tip it over 80 million then.
I'm sure the foreign markets and DVD sales will help it make it's money back.
I wonder if national and international sales will tip it over 80 million then.
I'm sure the foreign markets and DVD sales will help it make it's money back.
And oh yeah...
Perhaps the glamorous Ms Garner should have remembered that the same fictional Saudi police her character works with in this in real life arrest women that end up being buried in the ground, wrapped up in a burial shroud, with only their heads showing...as their fellow Saudi's proceed stone them to death.
"The Kingdom" not look so entertaining now? GOOD.
Perhaps Ms Garner should have been far more interested in doing a movie about that shocking, legal, socially acceptable atrocity, instead of a disgraceful fantasy, painted as reality, that depicts the Saudi police as an allie who shares a common enemy.
Perhaps the glamorous Ms Garner should have remembered that the same fictional Saudi police her character works with in this in real life arrest women that end up being buried in the ground, wrapped up in a burial shroud, with only their heads showing...as their fellow Saudi's proceed stone them to death.
"The Kingdom" not look so entertaining now? GOOD.
Perhaps Ms Garner should have been far more interested in doing a movie about that shocking, legal, socially acceptable atrocity, instead of a disgraceful fantasy, painted as reality, that depicts the Saudi police as an allie who shares a common enemy.
Dave Brock, you make some very shocking allegations. Might I ask for some sources or evidence to back that up? It's not that I believe you, but if you're going to make statements like that, you need to have factual support. I like that you say it's "liberal hokum". Well, let's see your evidence before I call your posts "hokum".
Dave,
I wouldn't be at all surprised if your points are true, most of the middle east isn't exactly forward thinking.
However I doubt those are the reasons it didn't do to well. It sounds to me The Kingdom is a decent action film that they tried to do more with, except it didn't work and that tends to turn people off.
I know I dislike it when politics are chucked down my throat in a ham fisted way. "Particularly" when a Western filmmaker tries to film the middle east, most really have no clue about the region but think they do.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if your points are true, most of the middle east isn't exactly forward thinking.
However I doubt those are the reasons it didn't do to well. It sounds to me The Kingdom is a decent action film that they tried to do more with, except it didn't work and that tends to turn people off.
I know I dislike it when politics are chucked down my throat in a ham fisted way. "Particularly" when a Western filmmaker tries to film the middle east, most really have no clue about the region but think they do.
mlcm wrote: Dave Brock, you make some very shocking allegations. Might I ask for some sources or evidence to back that up? It's not that I believe you, but if you're going to make statements like that, you need to have factual support. I like that you say it's "liberal hokum". Well, let's see your evidence before I call your posts "hokum".
I'm pretty sure that Dave Brock's allegations are true, or at least not made up, all you have to do to confirm is search the archives of any repectable news service or human right organizations (and I consider myself liberal, by the way).
However, I don't think that this was the reason that the movie didn't make as much money as analysts expected, after all it was advertised as "noble American troops going in Saudi Arabia to kick some Muslim ass", I think it's just that to most Americans by this point, or at least to those that tend to buy movie tickets to movies that are not Passion of the Christ, our entire involvement in the region is a very painful and regrettable issue, and while it's still going on, I don't think that filmmakers are in the right frame of mind to be reflecting on it. After all, if you look at Vietnam, the best movies about that war came out in the 70s and 80s after it was over.
On a totally unrelated note, does anyone else think that Jennifer Garner looks a lot like Keira Knightly in this cover?
I'm pretty sure that Dave Brock's allegations are true, or at least not made up, all you have to do to confirm is search the archives of any repectable news service or human right organizations (and I consider myself liberal, by the way).
However, I don't think that this was the reason that the movie didn't make as much money as analysts expected, after all it was advertised as "noble American troops going in Saudi Arabia to kick some Muslim ass", I think it's just that to most Americans by this point, or at least to those that tend to buy movie tickets to movies that are not Passion of the Christ, our entire involvement in the region is a very painful and regrettable issue, and while it's still going on, I don't think that filmmakers are in the right frame of mind to be reflecting on it. After all, if you look at Vietnam, the best movies about that war came out in the 70s and 80s after it was over.
On a totally unrelated note, does anyone else think that Jennifer Garner looks a lot like Keira Knightly in this cover?
I can't wait to pick this up for one reason, Chris Cooper. Such a great actor and so many people (well, people not in the know) don't have a clue about him.
Nice to see him get 2nd billing so I hope he has a substansial part...even though not a place on the cover. Oh the apparent effect on sales of putting Gardner on the cover I guess. Unless Copper is the headless soldier on the ground before her lol.
Nice to see him get 2nd billing so I hope he has a substansial part...even though not a place on the cover. Oh the apparent effect on sales of putting Gardner on the cover I guess. Unless Copper is the headless soldier on the ground before her lol.
I'll have to rent this. I didn't see it in the theater, but I heard it was very good.
mlcm wrote: Dave Brock, you make some very shocking allegations. Might I ask for some sources or evidence to back that up? It's not that I believe you, but if you're going to make statements like that, you need to have factual support. I like that you say it's "liberal hokum". Well, let's see your evidence before I call your posts "hokum".
Sorry. My post is meant to say "It's not that I DON'T believe you". Cause I do believe most of the allegations are to a certain extent true. I just want people to back up their allegations.
Sorry. My post is meant to say "It's not that I DON'T believe you". Cause I do believe most of the allegations are to a certain extent true. I just want people to back up their allegations.
The reason it didn't do well is the Advertising campaign sucked and most American's just don't want to see a movie taking place in that part of the world.
Chris Johnson wrote: Actually it flopped. The budget was around 80 million, and so far it's only made around 40.
Actually it only cost $70 Mil to make and right now it's at $45 million in the states and $15 million overseas. Which means it's made over $60 million. So it's not a complete flop, but it's still not really successful.
I thought it was a great movie and I will most likey be picking it up when it comes out of DVD.
Actually it only cost $70 Mil to make and right now it's at $45 million in the states and $15 million overseas. Which means it's made over $60 million. So it's not a complete flop, but it's still not really successful.
I thought it was a great movie and I will most likey be picking it up when it comes out of DVD.
Quote: I know I dislike it when politics are chucked down my throat in a ham fisted way. "Particularly" when a Western filmmaker tries to film the middle east, most really have no clue about the region but think they do
Personally I thought it was a pretty accurate portrayal of the region, though I have never had to experience a terrorist attack here.
Personally I thought it was a pretty accurate portrayal of the region, though I have never had to experience a terrorist attack here.
mlcm wrote:
Sorry. My post is meant to say "It's not that I DON'T believe you". Cause I do believe most of the allegations are to a certain extent true. I just want people to back up their allegations.
Feel free to Google any Human Rights, Woman's Rights, Gay Rights, Religious Rights, censorship website you see fit.
And there are many Saudi stoning videos around. Trust me, once seen never forgotten.
They are not allegations they are facts, and they are not 'to a certain extent true'...they are completely true.
Hence (as Foxx and Garner said in a recent BBC Radio interview) there is no place for 'balanced neutral understanding and respect' as far as the Saudi authorities should go at all.
Especially not the police or military.
And in a place where road signs literally say 'Muslims this way'...'Non-Muslims this way' Foxx should have had second thoughts purely because it smacks of deep South 'whites only' water fountains though it's even more widespread and is happening NOW.
And as for Garner...well...
I'm not saying she does have to do a film about the stoning to death and general treatment of them in Saudi. it's up to her.
But at the same time don't then do a film that plays up such dark ages oppression and atrocity as a damn 'mis-matched buddy cop film' which is another way Foxx described it and don't appear on the poster in a kick ass babe t-shirt with hair flowing either. As that amount of flesh on display in a saudi street would see her most certainly arrested, beaten and sentenced to jail at the very least.
Either ignore the Saudi system or do the truth...but don't dare do anything other than the truth. Action films can be set anywhere and 'buddy cops' can be picked from better sources.
The 7000 lashes each for two men daring to have sex is here;
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22532620-23109,00.html
I wonder if the Saudi cops arrested these guys in-between helping Foxx and Garner catch bad guys?
And a film that happens in a real place, in a real culture, with real authorities, with a realistic and indeed current storyline can't simply hide behind 'it's just a movie either'.
I really like the blurb that 'Universal' put out about the film as well...
Quote: Now in a fight for their own lives, strangers united by one mission won't stop until justice is found in The Kingdom
Well those 'united' strangers have very different ideas of what counts as 'justice' in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...this film won't show you what that 'justice' is though.
Out. The rest is up to you.
Quote: Personally I thought it was a pretty accurate portrayal of the region,
No. Here is an accurate description of the region.
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=mideast&c=saudia
And if this was something not shielded by 'religion', skin colour no one would accept such things.
Only as far as the weak-willed, mostly white liberal, PC Western powers are concerned those two things are the best shield anything could have, no matter what it does or stands for.
Out. The rest is up to you.
Rent away.
Sorry. My post is meant to say "It's not that I DON'T believe you". Cause I do believe most of the allegations are to a certain extent true. I just want people to back up their allegations.
Feel free to Google any Human Rights, Woman's Rights, Gay Rights, Religious Rights, censorship website you see fit.
And there are many Saudi stoning videos around. Trust me, once seen never forgotten.
They are not allegations they are facts, and they are not 'to a certain extent true'...they are completely true.
Hence (as Foxx and Garner said in a recent BBC Radio interview) there is no place for 'balanced neutral understanding and respect' as far as the Saudi authorities should go at all.
Especially not the police or military.
And in a place where road signs literally say 'Muslims this way'...'Non-Muslims this way' Foxx should have had second thoughts purely because it smacks of deep South 'whites only' water fountains though it's even more widespread and is happening NOW.
And as for Garner...well...
I'm not saying she does have to do a film about the stoning to death and general treatment of them in Saudi. it's up to her.
But at the same time don't then do a film that plays up such dark ages oppression and atrocity as a damn 'mis-matched buddy cop film' which is another way Foxx described it and don't appear on the poster in a kick ass babe t-shirt with hair flowing either. As that amount of flesh on display in a saudi street would see her most certainly arrested, beaten and sentenced to jail at the very least.
Either ignore the Saudi system or do the truth...but don't dare do anything other than the truth. Action films can be set anywhere and 'buddy cops' can be picked from better sources.
The 7000 lashes each for two men daring to have sex is here;
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22532620-23109,00.html
I wonder if the Saudi cops arrested these guys in-between helping Foxx and Garner catch bad guys?
And a film that happens in a real place, in a real culture, with real authorities, with a realistic and indeed current storyline can't simply hide behind 'it's just a movie either'.
I really like the blurb that 'Universal' put out about the film as well...
Quote: Now in a fight for their own lives, strangers united by one mission won't stop until justice is found in The Kingdom
Well those 'united' strangers have very different ideas of what counts as 'justice' in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...this film won't show you what that 'justice' is though.
Out. The rest is up to you.
Quote: Personally I thought it was a pretty accurate portrayal of the region,
No. Here is an accurate description of the region.
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=mideast&c=saudia
And if this was something not shielded by 'religion', skin colour no one would accept such things.
Only as far as the weak-willed, mostly white liberal, PC Western powers are concerned those two things are the best shield anything could have, no matter what it does or stands for.
Out. The rest is up to you.
Rent away.
Sorry, Dave Brock, forgive me for asking these two questions. Have you personally experienced the Middle East? And have you SEEN "The Kingdom"?
What difference does it make if Hollywood portrays, in a fictional movie, one country that isn't nearly as brutal as it actually is, versus another country that isn't nearly as brutal as it actually is?
I scanned that Human Rights Watch page. Very fascinating and heinous stuff happening there. Thanks for pointing that out, I shall be bookmarking it (no sarcasm). But that Human Right Watch website has articles upon articles about the entire globe.
"The Kingdom" isn't meant to be a documentary, or a docudrama. It's meant to be entertainment.
If a similar plot had been used in Central or South America, would you have posted the same sort of things you have been posting here, with the same sense of outrage?
What difference does it make if Hollywood portrays, in a fictional movie, one country that isn't nearly as brutal as it actually is, versus another country that isn't nearly as brutal as it actually is?
I scanned that Human Rights Watch page. Very fascinating and heinous stuff happening there. Thanks for pointing that out, I shall be bookmarking it (no sarcasm). But that Human Right Watch website has articles upon articles about the entire globe.
"The Kingdom" isn't meant to be a documentary, or a docudrama. It's meant to be entertainment.
If a similar plot had been used in Central or South America, would you have posted the same sort of things you have been posting here, with the same sense of outrage?
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Ugghhh take the Pete Hammond quote please!!!! His quotes once again are irritating to any cover.