Dredd - Box Office

[malkymac]

(Slaine for instance,though I guess that dreadful Conan killed the genre for a decade anyway).

I know sword and sorcery and fantasy are different subgenres, but hey The Hobbit movies hit soon. Maybe some studio will want to greenlight a sword swinging Slaine epic.

Michael Fassbender is meant to be making a movie about Cuchulain already

[TordelBack]

Reading some of the comments on the Aint It Cool Board is highly depressing.

This a phrase that can be employed on any given day.

[SquashedFly]

Amongst the somewhat glumness of it all I've found some delight in plugging this film on an NHL Ice Hockey forum I frequent. Some people from Canada and the US have really been digging it and will do their best to spread the news of it being awesome via word of mouth. Even turned someone onto the Case Files so it ain't all that bad.

[Richmond Clements]

As far as I can tell, there were only two images used in the promotion of the movie. The silouette and the one of Dredd standing on the building. That's just lazy on LG part...

So you're saying that ther film did not do well becasue there wasn't a bigger variety of poster designs?
I suspect the truth of the matter may be slightly more complex than that...

[Steve Green]

Leaving aside the motion poster, the graffiti poster, the burning cityscape poster...

[Radbacker]

ok Im stoked for this movie and Dredd (he he) to ask this but it happens sometimes, does anyone know if this is still going to get an OZ release?  its due out 28/10 but as happens with some movies that open in America so long before OZ and dont do too well quite often get pulled from OZ release, i'd hate for this to happen as it'd be a tragedy, Dredd and 2000AD have always had a strong presence in Australia, the Prog has always been available from newsagents not just specialist shops and I suspect this movie would definatly do the numbers in Australia (not huge in comparison to the US but still enough to add an extra $10-15million to the bottom line).  Still no confirmation from my cinema that they're gonna get it but hell as long as it got a release i could see me traveling 700kms to Perth to see it.  I'm gonna be pretty upset if I have to wait for Blueray and really want to osee this in 3D. 

CU radbacker

[hazy efc]

I dont no what it is with folk in the states from what im hearing the movie was promoted pretty well over there they were aware of it they just dont want to give it a chance and thats sad just like with the sex pistols or oasis whether you guys like those bands or you dont i for one do they were pretty fuckin popular almost everywere but the states and it just makes you sit back and think why this is im not saying every ones gotta like dredd or those bands but it seems pretty apparent when the brits come a shouting something them lot in the states love to do they dont like it and therefore turn their nose up at, it they no about dredd in the states and they hear all the great things being said about this british/south african produced FILM they wont give it the time of day in my opinion because A.it isnt american made and B.its been making a little noise outside of the states a noise they started with the great reviews at comic con and i think they didnt like the fact it opened in the uk first, the sex pistols go over there the yanks dont want to no but the ramones do just fine hmmm i wonder why, oasis were suppose to do big things over there back in the mid nighties and they got booed out the fucking country and i no it aint over for dredd yet but it aint looking good it seems anything with a bit of attitude non american made be it music or film and they shit on it knowing its good and then they do what they always do admit it later they like it when its to late now i aint saying us brits are perfect i for one am not but what you see is what you get with us we like something or we dont regardless of were a band or a film is coming from ps if you live in the states get your ass down the cinema and see dredd haha

[IndigoPrime]

Sounds like Dredd's to some extent hit the chain restaurant problem. On visiting an unfamiliar town, many people will plump for what they know rather than chance something they don't, even if they've heard good things about the latter. Guaranteed mediocrity is a safer (if ultimately potentially less satisfying) bet than possible excellence. With a series like Resident Evil, you know what you're going to get, even if you know it probably won't be great. With Dredd, you don't know if you're going to like it and there's a chance you won't; ergo, it isn't the safe bet.

What's really interesting is the word of mouth and many people/sites clamouring to get others to watch the movie. It would be wonderful to see it bounce at least a bit off of the back of this in the USA. (I think the UK, Dredd's probably peaked, and really for the type of movie it is, the takings don't seem too bad at all.) That said, quality isn't always enough—remember how short Moon's stay in the cinema was, and that was one of the finest sci-fi films in a very long time.

[FoldsFive]

I dont no what it is with folk in the states from what im hearing the movie was promoted pretty well over there they were aware of it they just dont want to give it a chance and thats sad just like with the sex pistols or oasis whether you guys like those bands or you dont i for one do they were pretty fuckin popular almost everywere but the states and it just makes you sit back and think why this is im not saying every ones gotta like dredd or those bands but it seems pretty apparent when the brits come a shouting something them lot in the states love to do they dont like it and therefore turn their nose up at, it they no about dredd in the states and they hear all the great things being said about this british/south african produced FILM they wont give it the time of day in my opinion because A.it isnt american made and B.its been making a little noise outside of the states a noise they started with the great reviews at comic con and i think they didnt like the fact it opened in the uk first, the sex pistols go over there the yanks dont want to no but the ramones do just fine hmmm i wonder why, oasis were suppose to do big things over there back in the mid nighties and they got booed out the fucking country and i no it aint over for dredd yet but it aint looking good it seems anything with a bit of attitude non american made be it music or film and they shit on it knowing its good and then they do what they always do admit it later they like it when its to late now i aint saying us brits are perfect i for one am not but what you see is what you get with us we like something or we dont regardless of were a band or a film is coming from ps if you live in the states get your ass down the cinema and see dredd haha

...and breathe.

[CraveNoir]

Icon, the Australian distributor are still promoting DREDD on their Facebook page as of three hours ago, so it's getting a theatrical release. How wide that will be is anyone's guess.

[Keef Monkey]

No offence Hazy, but when I see a single sentence that length my eyes break.

[paddykafka]

James Joyce has a lot to answer for.

[Jim_Campbell]

No offence Hazy, but when I see a single sentence that length my eyes break.

I'm afraid my ignore list now regularly includes people who won't punctuate, spell or use paragraphs properly. If you can't be arsed to take an extra two minutes to formulate your posts in a coherent fashion, then I'm not going to waste my time trying to decipher them.

Plus, I'm supposed to be watching my blood pressure.

Cheers

Jim

[radiator]

Agreed. I'm no grammar or spelling nazi, but most people will automatically skip over a big block of text like that (myself included).

Just hit the return key once in a while.

[Dandontdare]

dude, buy yourself some punctuation.