Kingdom of Heaven (film)

Kingdom of Heaven
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRidley Scott
Written byWilliam Monahan
Produced byRidley Scott
Starring
CinematographyJohn Mathieson
Edited byDody Dorn
Music byHarry Gregson-Williams
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • 2 May 2005 (2005-05-02) (London premiere)
  • 5 May 2005 (2005-05-05) (Germany)
  • 6 May 2005 (2005-05-06) (North America, United Kingdom)
Running time
144 minutes[2]
Countries
  • United Kingdom[3]
  • Germany
  • United States
Languages
  • English
  • Arabic
  • Italian
  • Latin
Budget$130 million[4]
Box office$218.1 million[4]

Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It features an ensemble cast including Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas, and Liam Neeson.

The film is a heavily fictionalised portrayal of the events leading to the Third Crusade, focusing mainly on Balian of Ibelin who fights to defend the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from the Ayyubid Sultan Saladin.

Filming took place in Ouarzazate, Morocco and in Spain, at the Loarre Castle (Huesca), Segovia, Ávila, Palma del Río, and Seville's Casa de Pilatos and Alcázar. The film was released on 6 May 2005 by 20th Century Fox and received mixed reviews upon theatrical release. It grossed $218 million worldwide. On 23 December 2005, Scott released a director's cut, which many reviewers called the definitive version of the film.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Company Information". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2010. Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  2. ^ "KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 20 April 2005. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Kingdom of Heaven" Archived 25 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Film.com.
  4. ^ a b "Kingdom of Heaven" Archived 14 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Box Office Mojo.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Kingdom was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Reviewers was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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