Apocalypto's soundtrack:

Labels: Apocalypto, ApocalyptoWatch, Dalia Hernandez, James Horner, Mauricio Amuy Tenorio, Mayra Serbulo, Mel Gibson, Raoul Trujillo, Rudy Youngblood

"NRKrieg1" gives us some updated release dates:

Belgium 7 March 2007 (Release Date Change)
Turkey 23 March 2007 (New Release)
Venezuela 13 Apirl 2007 (New Release)

I am 19 years old, from Greece and I have seen a lot of movies.The only think I want to say is that the movie was simply perfect. Rudy Youngblood was somethng more than an amazing actor.Dalia Hernadez. I liked her, too.As far as the little boy concerned, I cant express with words how cute it was. Mel,and the rest of you, congratulations. You did a great job.

This website has three Mel interviews by Richard Wilkins for the Australian Today Show on Apocalypto. Mel looks very, very relaxed.

http://ninemsn.video.msn.com/v/en-au/v.htm?t=m164

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/12012007/344/gibson-attend-mexican-premiere.html

Apocalypto has been nominated for a 'Film not in the English Language' for the UK BAFTA Awards to be televised in the UK on Feb 11th.

Go to this Australian Website for a podcast interview with Apocalypto's Director of Photography Dean Semmler. The interviewer is Julie Rigg.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/movietime/stories/2007/1821594.htm

This website verifies Apocalypto Topping UK Box Office Opening Weekend with $1.3M.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6242963.stm

From Box Office Mojo, Italy did even better this opening weekend with $3.1M.

• From Carinya, our Japanese Apocalypto contact [visit her website here]:

"I'd like to inform you of the UK mag, Total Film, Feb 2007 issue. It features Mel on the cover and has an interview-based five-page article. A very good one. The perfect cover photo is here: http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/iimgdata/large/0814889.jpg"

• Nathan informs us that Dec. 28th was the Apocalypto release date for Israel.
• Linda sends this tip along:

"Here is a very good interview of Mel by Michael Medved about Apocalypto. The podcast can be found by scrolling down to December 15th. Mel sounds great - very relaxed: http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=4&ContentGuid=f368c22b-d40d-47d8-a8f1-c8f04b9ab24c"

Linda also tells us: "This is a good piece by Ed Driscoll on the Variety's (stretching the truth) biased article that said Apocalypto's box office was heading into oblivion: http://eddiscoll.com/archives/010135.php"

• Louise tells us that Apocalypto was the surprise box office winner in Russia.

• From Carinya, our Japanese Apocalypto contact [visit her website here]:

"I'd like to inform you of the UK mag, Total Film, Feb 2007 issue. It features Mel on the cover and has an interview-based five-page article. A very good one. The perfect cover photo is here: http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/iimgdata/large/0814889.jpg"

• Nathan informs us that Dec. 28th was the Apocalypto release date for Israel.
• Linda sends this tip along:

"Here is a very good interview of Mel by Michael Medved about Apocalypto. The podcast can be found by scrolling down to December 15th. Mel sounds great - very relaxed: http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=4&ContentGuid=f368c22b-d40d-47d8-a8f1-c8f04b9ab24c"

Linda also tells us: "This is a good piece by Ed Driscoll on the Variety's (stretching the truth) biased article that said Apocalypto's box office was heading into oblivion: http://eddiscoll.com/archives/010135.php"

• Louise tells us that Apocalypto was the surprise box office winner in Russia.

• Release dates for Denmark (19 January) and Sweden (23 February) - Thanks Nathan!

A whole series of links from Antonius Bloch:

Good stuff on Rudy (and all the injuries he endured while making the film, never complaining or letting Mel know about it because he was so grateful for the part): http://www.pr-inside.com/apocalypto-star-braves-multiple-injuries-r32404.htm

And "according to Rudy's publicist, Michelle Shining Elk, he's did an interview with People Magazine on Dec 12, and Entertainment Weekly will have air a feature on him this week": http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/local/2006/12/12/36779

http://www.worldmag.com/articles/12525 -- Very good review from a Christian magazine

There's a very cool podcast interview with Mel from a Denver ABC affiliate. It's a really laid back interview, very positive and Mel is informal and at his best (very comfortable, good questions).

Check it out if you want . . . http://www.thedenverchannel.com/columnists/10542059/detail.html

Another review: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/articles/061218crci_cinema

A new interview is out with Kurt Loder and Mel Gibson. It's actually pretty good if you want to check it out: http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1548104/20061214/story.jhtml

This website at Foxnews has a Sean Hannity 3 part interview on video with Mel that was done within the last couple of days. It's fantastic.

http://www.foxnews.com/hannityandcolmes/index.html

Here are four new article/interviews Mel has done about Apocalypto. All very good.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/entertainment/10542059/detail.html?rss=bos&psp=news

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061215/film_nm/apocalypto_dc_3

http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17956

http://www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/1548104/12142006/story.jhtml

Footage from the Apocalypto scoring sessions can be
found at Tony Hinnigans homepage:

http://media.tonyhinnigan.net/movies/ApocalyptoSessions2006.wmv
(112 MB)

• Apocalypto - $15.0 million
• Happy Feet - $12.9 million
• The Holiday - $12.7 million

More from the Associated Press here. More analysis from BoxOfficeMojo here.

• Germany 14 December 2006
• Russia 14 December 2006
• Estonia 22 December 2006
• Latvia 22 December 2006
• Hungary 28 December 2006
• Poland 29 December 2006
• Italy 5 January 2007
• Switzerland 5 January 2007 (Italian speaking region)
• UK 5 January 2007
• France 10 January 2007
• Switzerland 10 January 2007 (French speaking region)
• Australia 11 January 2007
• Netherlands 11 January 2007
• Switzerland 11 January 2007 (German speaking region)
• Iceland 12 January 2007
• Belgium 17 January 2007
• Spain 19 January 2007
• Brazil 26 January 2007
• Finland 26 January 2007
• Norway 26 January 2007
• Argentina 1 February 2007
• Hong Kong 1 February 2007
• South Korea 15 February 2007

Update: We missed one (thanks Nathan!):

• Singapore Thursday 18 January 2007

Source: IMDB.

If we've missed any, please email us. Thanks!

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• The critical consensus: "Apocalypto is a brilliantly filmed, if mercilessly bloody, examination of a once great civilization." [Rotten Tomatoes]
• Apocalypto is rated "R" for "sequences of graphic violence and disturbing images."
• Apocalypto's running time is 2 hours & 18 minutes.
• Apocalypto's movie trailer is viewable here.
• Apocalypto's website is here.
• Apocalytpo has been receiving many rave reviews, here is a partial list of them. Apocalypto is currently the highest rated opening movie at Rotten Tomatoes.
• We recommend booking your tickets here at Yahoo! movies (non-endorsed suggestion).
• The hero of Apocalypto, Jaguar Paw, is played by Rudy Youngblood. For more information, visit his website here.
• For more information on the latest Apocalytpo news, refresh this page or scroll our sidebar.

Thanks and enjoy Apocalypto if you decide to go see it! - The ApocalyptoWatch Staff

• 100 Variety (Todd McCarthy)
  Mel Gibson is always good for a surprise, and his latest is that Apocalypto is a remarkable film. Set in the waning days of the Mayan civilization, the picture provides a trip to a place one's never been, offering hitherto unseen sights of exceptional vividness and power. [More.]
• 100 LA Weekly (Scott Foundas)
  For those of us who prefer to judge Gibson solely in terms of his art, the movie is a virtuosic piece of action cinema -- particularly in its second half...And while there has been no shortage of recent films that decry the horrors of war and man's inhumanity to his fellow man, I know of none other quite this sickeningly powerful. [More.]
• 91 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (William Arnold)
  For all its excesses, it's an absorbing, disturbing, savagely beautiful "trip" movie, and an extraordinary -- perhaps even outrageous -- personal vision of the one A-list filmmaker who truly deserves the adjective "maverick." [More.]
• 90 Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
  Gibson may not be much of a deep thinker, but he's a heck of a storyteller. Apocalypto turns out to be not a case of Montezuma's revenge but of Gibson's: It's something entirely unexpected, a sinewy, taut poem of action. [More.]
• 88 Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
  Gibson has made a film of blunt provocation and bruising beauty. [More.]
• 80 Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)
  By the end I felt sure it was the most obsessively, graphically violent film I'd ever seen, but equally sure that Apocalypto is a visionary work with its own wild integrity. And absolutely, positively convinced that seeing it once is enough for one lifetime. [More.]
• 80 The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)
  The guy knows how to make a heart-pounding movie; he just happens to be a cinematic sadist. [More.]
• 80 Newsweek (David Ansen)
  The film is mostly successful in transporting the viewer to another age: the costumes, the body markings, the fierce Mayan masks, all feel right. And keeping the dialogue in subtitles was a smart move. Even better are the faces, which never fail to fascinate. But for all the anthropological research that went into the movie, what is Apocalypto trying to say? [More.]

• Mayans, miners in culture clash
• Maya excited by first feature in their language but wary of Mel Gibson's take - AP
• Apocalypto Will Take in Over $13.5 mil Opening Weekend Say Oddsmakers [sounds like a low estimate to us ...]
• Gibson's 'Apocalypto' is bloody and brilliant - Detroit Free Press

More coverage to follow...

"This is a slam-bang, action-packed chase movie that puts the audience smack-dab in the middle of pre-Columbian America, and that's the joy of the movie" - Tony Medley

"It isn't merely fascinating, it is nothing less than one of the very best movies of the year, and it contains some of the best foot chases in cinematic history." - Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews

"Vivid, provocative and utterly breathtaking." - Jeanne Aufmuth, Palo Alto Weekly

"'Apocalypto' is the best action-adventure movie to have come out of Hollywood all year..." - Emanual Levy

"[Mel Gibson] has created here a visually stunning but haunting world that has never been seen before and will be left in the minds of its audience forever when talk of the Mayan people arises." - Danny Minton, Beaumont Journal

With some early reviews lauding the audacity and innovation of Mel Gibson's bloody Mayan epic, "Apocalypto," Hollywood's tight-knit community of Oscar voters may find itself facing a difficult dilemma in the coming weeks: Will they consider the film for an Academy Award?

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Most critics ... have yet to weigh in on "Apocalypto," but the excitement of those who have - like that among journalists who lingered to debate the film after a screening ended in Los Angeles last week - has been palpable. [Read the full article.]