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Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical comedy-fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements. The film is based on the legendary Greek mythology hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology.
Likewise, entertainment analysts speculated Hercules did not appeal strongly towards adults and teenagers compared to Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, which served as date movies and family outings. [68] By spring 1998, Hercules grossed $99 million, [69] and the international totals for Hercules raised its gross to $253 million ...
Made for TV movie [2] Hercules and the Queen of Lydia: 1959: Steve Reeves: Also known as Hercules Unchained [2] Hercules and the Ten Avengers: 1964: Dan Vadis: Also known as Hercules vs. The Giant Warriors and The Triumph of Hercules [2] Hercules and the Treasure of the Incas: 1964: Alan Steel: Also known as Lost Treasure of the Aztecs (not a ...
Films about Heracles, a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon.In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules.Heracles' role as a culture hero, whose death could be a subject of mythic telling, was accepted into the Olympian Pantheon during classical antiquity.
Baby Hercules strangling a snake sent to kill him in his cradle (Roman marble, 2nd century CE, in the Capitoline Museums of Rome, Italy). The Latin name Hercules was borrowed through Etruscan, where it is represented variously as Heracle, Hercle, and other forms. Hercules was a favorite subject for Etruscan art, and appears often on bronze mirrors.
Heracles was the greatest of Hellenic chthonic heroes, but unlike other Greek heroes, no tomb was identified as his. Heracles was both hero and god, as Pindar says heros theos ; at the same festival sacrifice was made to him, first as a hero, with a chthonic libation , and then as a god, upon an altar: thus he embodies the closest Greek ...
A number of English-dubbed Italian films that featured the Hercules name in their title were never intended to be Hercules movies by their Italian creators. Hercules Against the Moon Men, Hercules Against the Barbarians, Hercules Against the Mongols and Hercules of the Desert were all originally Maciste films in Italy. (See "Maciste" section ...
Hercules grossed $72.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $172.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $244.8 million. [7] In the United States, Hercules was released on July 25, 2014, at 3,595 theaters. [20]