The Fifth Factor is Making Its Approach Again to the Massive Display

There’ve been loads of huge re-releases in theaters this yr, mainly as a result of 2024 is residence to some sizable anniversaries in movie and popular culture. The latest film to make its method again to the large display is Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, courtesy of dependable re-release distributor Fathom Occasions.

On Sunday, November 17 after which Wednesday the twentieth, the sci-fi movie will play in theaters again for these two days nationwide. It’s a continuation of Fathom’s Massive Display Classics that for this yr, has beforehand included the likes of Blazing Saddles, South Park: Larger, Longer, Uncut, and The Wizard of Oz. Based on Fathom, every Fifth Factor screening will even include an introduction from movie critic and historian Leonard Maltin that digs into the “continued affect of this landmark sci-fi fable.”

The Fifth Factor initially launched in 1997, directed by Besson and a script he co-wrote with Robert Mark Kamen, based mostly off a narrative he got here up when he was 16. Within the movie, Bruce Willis performs Korben Dallas, a twenty third century Particular Forces main turned taxi driver tasked with saving Earth by teaming up with a humanoid lady named Leeloo. To take action, they should get better a set of stones that may assist defend the planet towards a cosmic evil that exhibits up each 5,000 years and the human mercenaries employed by the cosmic evil to cease the duo.

The movie, which additionally stars Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, and Ian Holm, was the costliest European film made again then. Most critics have been on board with it, however the ones who weren’t actually weren’t, and it picked up some nominations at that yr’s Golden Raspberry and Stinkers Unhealthy Film Awards. Even so, it additionally received some movie competition awards (like at Cannes and the British Academy Movie Awards), and made $263.9 million. It was additionally the highest-grossing French movie on the worldwide field workplace, not less than till 2011’s The Intouchables.

So if you happen to’ve been hoping to see The Fifth Factor once more in theaters, right here’s your probability, and you may seize tickets here.

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