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The Dark Knight (2008) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
A list of films produced in Italy in 2008 (see 2008 in film): Title. Director.
TitleDirectorCastGenreLino Banfi, Anna FalchiComedyFausto Paravidino, Filippo Nigro, ...crime-dramaFilippo Timi, Elio GermanodramaChiara Caselli, Claudio SantamariadramaThe highest-grossing American films released in 2008, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: [1]
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Amid the political protests of the Saffron Revolution in Burma, ruthless SPDC officer Major Pa Tee Tint leads Burmese junta army forces in pillaging small villages in a campaign of fear. His soldiers sadistically slaughter innocents, abduct teenage boys to be drafted into his army and hold women hostage to be raped as sex slaves. Meanwhile, 20 year...
Development and writing
The film was an independent production between Nu Image and Emmett/Furla Films for Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH. It was green-lit and sold before Rocky Balboa was released. In between the making of the third and fourth films in the Rambo franchise, the films' original producer, Carolco Pictures, went out of business. In 1997, Miramax purchased the Rambo franchise. The following year, Miramax subsidiary Dimension Films intended to make another film, and a writer was hired to write the scri...
Pre-production
A different director was originally attached to direct the film but left due to creative disagreements. Stallone was reluctant to direct the film due to not being prepared nor having a vision for the film but later became excited when he came up with the idea of "what if the film was directed by Rambo? What if the film had his personality?" Graham McTavish later echoed this idea, stating, "In many ways, Rambo directed the movie." Paul Schulze stated that there were rewrites by Stallone nearly...
Filming
Stallone stated that due to the small production budget the only way to make the film memorable was to make it graphically violent. He said "we were all sitting around in looking at the small production budget. Then I said 'Hey, fake blood is cheap, lets make it all-out bloody.'" Filming started on January 22, 2007 and ended on May 4, 2007. It was shot in Chiang Mai, Thailand as well as in Mexico and the United States in Arizona and California. While filming near Burma, Stallone and the rest...
Brian Tyler composed the original score for the film. Stallone wanted Tyler to incorporate Jerry Goldsmith's original themes into the film. He did not rely on Goldsmith's actual theme, though he based his own theme and orchestrations on the style of the original to maintain the musical series. The soundtrack comprises 20 tracks.
Home media
The DVD and Blu-ray Disc were released in the United States on May 27, 2008. The DVD was released in a single disc edition and 2-disc edition. The 2-disc DVD has a 2.40 anamorphic widescreen presentation with a Dolby Digital 5.1 EX track. The single edition has a standard 5.1 Dolby Digital track. The Blu-ray Disc featured Dolby Digital 5.1 EX and DTS HD 7.1 tracks. The 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray feature the film, deleted scenes, 6 featurettes, and an audio commentary by Sylvester Stallone. The DV...
Director's cut
During a panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2008, Cliff Stephenson announced that a "slightly different, slightly longer version of Rambo" will be released in 2009. The extended cut premiered at the 2008 Zurich Film Festival. The extended cut was released exclusively on Blu-ray on July 27, 2010 and runs at 99 minutes. The extended cut was marketed as Rambo: Extended Cut but the film itself replaces the original title card with the original working title John Rambo. The extended cut restructures the...
Box office
Rambo opened in 2,751 North American theaters on January 25, 2008 and grossed $6,490,000 on its opening day, and $18,200,000 over its opening weekend. It was the second highest-grossing movie for the weekend in the U.S. and Canada behind Meet the Spartans.The film has a box office gross of $113,344,290, of which $42,754,105 was from Canada and the United States. Europe's biggest cinema chain (and the third biggest in the world), Odeon, refused to show the film on any of its screens in the Uni...
Critical response
Rambo received mixed reviews, with critics praising the film's action sequences and Stallone's performance, but criticizing the film's excessive violence. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 38% based on 154 reviews, with an average rating of 5.00/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Sylvester Stallone knows how to stage action sequences, but the movie's uneven pacing and excessive violence (even for the franchise) is more nauseating than entertaining." On Metacritic,...
Reception in Burma
The film is banned by the Burmese government. Upon release, the then-ruling military junta ordered DVD vendors in Burma not to distribute the film due to the movie's content. Despite having never been released there theatrically or on DVD, bootleg versions of Rambo are available. The opposition youth group Generation Wave copied and distributed the film as anti-Tatmadawpropaganda. The Karen National Liberation Army has said that the movie gave them a great boost of morale. Some rebels in Burm...
In 2009, Stallone announced plans for a fifth film titled Rambo V: The Savage Hunt. The film would have been loosely based on Hunter by James Byron Huggins and would have focused on Rambo leading an elite special forces kill team to hunt and kill a genetically engineered creature. In 2011, Sean Hood was hired to write a new script, separate from Th...
Sources
1. Stephenson, Cliff; Albertson, Sean (2008). It's a Long Road: Resurrection of an Icon (Rambo - DVD/Blu-ray). Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
The Incredible Hulk (2008) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.
