Gladiator 2 was without the biggest star from Gladiator, Russell Crowe, but scribe Peter Craig says this wasn’t always the ...

Gladiator 2 nearly featured a cameo from Russell Crowe's Maximus, but we're glad it didn't work out the way it was originally ...

Rome, circa 209 A.D. Sixteen years after the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000), the Roman Empire is now ruled by the tyrannical Emperors Caracalla ...

The powerful general is captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes ...

The new series of Gladiators sees a fresh crop of Contenders take on the superhuman Gladiators in five brutal events before ...

Now that Gladiator II is available on 4K and Blu-ray ... could’ve easily been one of the standout performers in a stacked cast. It’s a shame we didn’t get to see more of her.

While Russell Crowe will not be reprising his role due to having – spoiler – died in the last one (although we bet there’ll be a flashback) Gladiator II still features an all-star cast.

"Gladiator II" is a messy sequel to Ridley Scott's Roman epic — but what it lacks in narrative connective tissue, it makes up for in spectacle. After all, aren't we here to be entertained?

Oscar-winning actor and director Mel Gibson has revealed that he was originally offered the lead role in Ridley Scott’s historical epic Gladiator, but ultimately had to turn it down due to a ...