2 w. ago Tron: Ares flops at the box office with $33.5 million debut against $180 million budget

Jared Leto-led film opened about $10 million behind financial expectations

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2 w. ago 'Tron: Ares' tops box office but falls short of expectations with $33.5 million debut

"Tron: Ares" has powered up the box office grid, taking the top spot this weekend

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2 w. ago Tron: Ares branded ‘a new low for Disney’ in scathing reviews after 15

Disney's new science-fiction blockbuster has been branded one of the worst films of the year in scathing reviews

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3 w. ago Tron: Ares review – The worst film of the year and a new low for Disney

The music’s great, but this Jared Leto vehicle is otherwise an ethically dubious, horribly written nadir in franchise slop

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3 w. ago Tron: Ares review – even Gillian Anderson can’t slap this mind

Pointless threequel delivers a leaden cameo from a white-robed Jeff Bridges and an irritating turn from Jared Leto as a hipster-haired humanoid The matrix of pointlessness is reloaded in this mind-bendingly dull sci-fi, more a screensaver than an actual film. It’s a threequel to the original movie Tron from 1982, a film that was mould-breaking and boldly pioneering for its day in a way that eludes this one and its predecessor Tron Legacy from 2010. Tron: Ares (almost) comes to life just once – when Evan Peters gets a smack in the face from Gillian Anderson playing his mum, in an old-fashioned bit of analogue reality. That’s a bit of firm parenting you might feel like handing out to every producer involved in this film, and it’s sad to see the estimable Greta Lee and Jodie Turner-Smith being made to look so lifeless.The situation now is that an evil AI corporation with the unsubtly gangster-ish name of Dillinger has become a rival to the virtual reality firm Encom, originally set up ...

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3 w. ago Gillan Anderson commands attention in a black leather gown as she joins glam co

Gillan Anderson commands attention in a black leather gown as she joins glam co-star Jodie Turner Smith at the Tron: Ares preview night in London  Daily Mail

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