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4 days agoTron: Ares Is Getting A Steelbook Edition 4K Blu-Ray
Ares, a self-aware Program, exits the Grid to the real world, expanding Tron mythos; film underperformed and receives Blu-ray releases with extras.
"Tron: Ares" powered up the box office grid in the top spot this weekend, but Disney's third entry in the sci-fi franchise fell short of expectations. Despite some favorable reviews - including a three-out-of-four-star one from The Associated Press - the new "Tron" film starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee and Jeff Bridges earned $33.5 million, according to Comscore estimates on Sunday. The big-budget project, reported to cost around $150 million, arrived 15 years after "Tron: Legacy" opened to $44 million before grossing more than $400 million globally.
In the original movie, released in 1982, Jeff Bridges' Kevin Flynn is a hacker Spartacus, infiltrating the digital universe of the Grid, where anthropomorphized programs who stray from their assigned functions are sentenced to deletion in a virtual arena, and liberating both them and the company that created them, ENCOM. Twenty-eight years later, Tron: Legacy picked up the thread with Kevin Flynn's son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund), as its protagonist, and Kevin as both its hero and its villain.