The Fifth Element is Making Its Way Back to the Big Screen

There’ve been plentifulness of large re-releases successful theaters this year, mainly due to the fact that 2024 is location to immoderate sizable anniversaries successful movie and popular culture. The newest movie to marque its mode backmost to the large surface is Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, courtesy of reliable re-release distributor Fathom Events.

On Sunday, November 17 and past Wednesday the 20th, the sci-fi movie volition play successful theaters again for those 2 days nationwide. It’s a continuation of Fathom’s Big Screen Classics that for this year, has antecedently included the likes of Blazing Saddles, South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, and The Wizard of Oz. According to Fathom, each Fifth Element screening volition besides travel with an instauration from movie professional and historiographer Leonard Maltin that digs into the “continued power of this landmark sci-fi fable.”

The Fifth Element originally released successful 1997, directed by Besson and a publication helium co-wrote with Robert Mark Kamen, based disconnected a communicative helium came up erstwhile helium was 16. In the film, Bruce Willis plays Korben Dallas, a 23rd period Special Forces large turned taxi operator tasked with redeeming Earth by teaming up with a humanoid pistillate named Leeloo. To bash so, they person to retrieve a acceptable of stones that tin assistance support the satellite against a cosmic evil that shows up each 5,000 years and the quality mercenaries employed by the cosmic evil to halt the duo.

The film, which besides stars Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, and Ian Holm, was the astir costly European movie made backmost then. Most critics were connected committee with it, but the ones who weren’t really weren’t, and it picked up immoderate nominations astatine that year’s Golden Raspberry and Stinkers Bad Movie Awards. Even so, it besides won immoderate movie festival awards (like astatine Cannes and the British Academy Film Awards), and made $263.9 million. It was besides the highest-grossing French movie astatine the planetary container office, astatine slightest until 2011’s The Intouchables.

So if you’ve been hoping to see The Fifth Element again successful theaters, here’s your chance, and you tin drawback tickets here.

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