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Blood Diamond: Directed by Edward Zwick. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers. A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.
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- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Edward Zwick
- 2006-12-08
Villainous Rescue: He leads an attack on the diamond mining camp in an MI-24 Hind gunship, giving Solomon the chance to kill Captain Poison. You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Plans to do this to Danny and Solomon.
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It is 1999 and Sierra Leone is ravaged by major political unrest. Rebel factions such as the Revolutionary United Front frequently terrorize the countryside, intimidating Mende locals and enslaving many to harvest diamonds, which fund their increasingly successful war effort. One such unfortunate local is fisherman Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) fr...
Kagiso Kuypers as Dia VandyCharles Leavitt was hired by Warner Bros. in February 2004 to rewrite an early draft of the film, then titled Okavango. The story had been stuck in "development hell" at the studio for years before producers Paula Weinstein and Gillian Gorfil finally decided on the story of an African farmer caught up in the conflict between an American smuggler an...
Critical response
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 63% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 214 reviews, with an average score of 6.3/10, making the film a "fresh" on the website's rating system. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 64, based on 39 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Claudia Puig of the USA Today gave the film a positive review, stating that...
Box office performance
Blood Diamond opened on December 8, 2006 in the United States and Canada in 1,910 theaters. The film ranked at #5 on its opening weekend, accumulating $8,648,324, with a per theater average of $4,527.The film's five-day gross was $10,383,962. The film dropped down to #7 on its second weekend, accumulating $6,517,471 in a 24.6% drop from its first weekend, and per theater average of $3,412.By its third weekend it dropped down even more to #12 and made $3,126,379, $1,628 per theater average. Bl...
Blood Diamond: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the film of the same name, released on December 19, 2006 by Varèse Sarabande. It was composed by James Newton Howard, and won the "Soundtrack of the Year" at the 2008 Classic Brit Awards.
Blood Diamond was released on DVD in region 1 format on March 20, 2007. Both a single-disc and a two-disc version are available. High Definition versions on HD DVD and Blu-ray have also been released with a R rating in the United States and a rating of MA in Australia. (citation needed) The film has sold an estimated 3.6 million DVD units and has g...
Child soldiersEnglish-language accents in film – South AfricanBlood Diamond is a 2006 film about blood diamonds. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Leonardo DiCaprio , Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly . Set during the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999, the film shows a country torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel forces.
Blood Diamond (2006) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond. A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds.
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Blood Diamond is a 2006 American political war thriller film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou.
