The volcano movie “Pompeii” is poised to be the first big-budget bomb of 2014, if the box office tracking and analysts’ projections are on the money, “Pompeii,” from “Resident Evil” director Paul W.S.

As flaming balls of lava and ash rain down on the streets of Pompeii, the renegade gladiator Milo gallops on horseback after a chariot ridden by his beloved Cassia, who has been kidnapped by an evil ...

Emily Browning, left, and Kit Harington in "Pompeii." (Caitlin Cronenberg/TriStar Pictures/MCT) In a world where a mighty empire holds millions in its grasp, where wars are fought in both the arena ...

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Director Paul W.S. Anderson ("Resident Evil") tackles history's most infamous volcanic disaster in an action-romance starring Kit Harington ("Game of Thrones") and Emily Browning ("Sucker Punch"). By ...

What do you get when you combine the sword-and-sandal battles of “Gladiator,” the star-crossed love story of “Titanic” and the apocalyptic spectacle of, say, “2012”? The new movie “Pompeii” explores ...

“Pompeii” is exploding into theaters in 3-D today, using CGI to re-create the infamous volcano eruption that buried the entire city of Pompeii on Aug. 24, 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius looms in the backdrop ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The new movie "Pompeii" reconstructs one of ...