{"id":1058,"date":"2018-01-04T09:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2018-01-04T09:41:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:41:26","slug":"stephen-burkes-critically-acclaimed-maze-from-lionsgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Burke\u2019s critically acclaimed MAZE from LIONSGATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/w640_9405362_mazepackshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1059 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/w640_9405362_mazepackshot-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/w640_9405362_mazepackshot-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/w640_9405362_mazepackshot.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lionsgate Home Entertainment UK presents the Irish box-office hit, Stephen Burke\u2019s critically acclaimed <b id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1515057948746_7807\">MAZE,<\/b> which achieved the biggest opening weekend of any Irish film in Ireland and Northern Ireland since \u201cROOM\u201d in January 2016. The film opened without previews to over \u20ac141k (\u00a3124k) after its release, Friday September 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, on 65 screens (between ROI and NI) and hitting number 3 in the Irish box office chart. The film ran for ten weeks, spending five of these in the Irish top ten, and achieved a box office of over one million dollars (\u00a3764,874) in that time. Following Maze\u2019s robust theatrical release, the critically acclaimed film will now be available on <b id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1515057948746_7827\">Digital Download on 15<sup>th<\/sup> January and on DVD on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> January. <\/b><i id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1515057948746_7830\">Based on the true story of the 1983 mass breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze high-security prison in Northern Ireland.\u00a0\u00a0As Larry Marley (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor), the chief architect of the escape, schemes his way towards pulling off this feat, he comes into contact with prison warder, Gordon Close (Barry Ward). Initially Larry and Gordon are confirmed enemies, born on opposite sides of Northern Ireland\u2019s political divide, but when Larry realises that Gordon may be unwittingly useful for his escape plan, a slow seduction begins. Larry intends to use and manipulate Gordon in order to get closer to his goal but what follows is a tense, and intriguing drama in which an unlikely relationship is forged between two enemies that will have far reaching consequences for both of them.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionsgate Home Entertainment UK presents the Irish box-office hit, Stephen Burke\u2019s critically acclaimed MAZE, which achieved the biggest opening weekend of any Irish film in Ireland and Northern Ireland since \u201cROOM\u201d in January 2016. The film opened without previews to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1058\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}