The Promise

The Fate of the Furious hardly slowed down for its second lap around the planet, taking an extra $202 million in its second weekend. For the whole week, Monday through Sunday, that figure jumps to $476 million and brings this film’s global haul to $908 million dollars in just eleven days.

Set on the backdrop of the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the beginning of the First World War, The Promise plays like a grand melodrama in the vein of David Lean (Christian Bale also evokes Warren Beatty’s Reds, as an inspiration for  Terry George’s epic love story). The HFPA’s Paz Mata and Ramzi Malouki spoke to Bale and co-star Charlotte Le Bon about the film, which tells the story of the forgotten Armenian Genocide and its significance today.