Dredd (2012)

[HOO-HAA]

DREDD TYPOGRAPHY

Awesome!!!

Yep, I agree! Very well done!

[shaolin_monkey]

It also basically just ruins films - like the opening of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - in which I can't now not notice that as they're speeding along on the train the backdrop keeps switching in each shot from desert to mountains to forest and back again.

Yeah, that progamme sucks badly.  It's like movie watching for miserable bloody pedants, or Simpsons-style comic book guys. 

Worst. Movie Mistakes. TV Programme. Ever.

[radiator]

The titles are awesome though... 

[blackmocco]

In Target yesterday buying Dredd for a Christmas prezzie swop thingie and the cashier told me they're discontinuing it on DVD and Blu-Ray. They had four more copies and then that's it.

[dweezil2]

In Target yesterday buying Dredd for a Christmas prezzie swop thingie and the cashier told me they're discontinuing it on DVD and Blu-Ray. They had four more copies and then that's it.

Wonder if that means it's due a re-pressing?

[Steve Green]

The titles are awesome though... 

Haha, they're OK - they liked them anyway.

As for the programme itself, well it is what it is, something to fill a schedule for a digital channel with not the budget of the mainstream ones.

I think something more 'positive' where it's movie trivia, or behind the scenes would be a better bet.

E.g. where they comment on something flipping sides, is usually because the shot is flipped so it reads better - avoiding 'crossing the line', rather than continuity. Something based around people making films rather than just pulling them apart - or at least dissecting it with a purpose.

I doubt it fits BBC Three's remit though.

[HOO-HAA]

In Target yesterday buying Dredd for a Christmas prezzie swop thingie and the cashier told me they're discontinuing it on DVD and Blu-Ray. They had four more copies and then that's it.

Wonder if that means it's due a re-pressing?

That would certainly help the case for a sequel.

Anyone know how much the film has made to date, including international DVD sales, vs. its actual budget? Tried a quick search online but no joy...

[Steve Green]

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Dredd#tab=summary

Doesn't include international HV sales though, and I don't know how recent it is.

Interesting to hear it will be OOP though, not sure what to read into that though - it could be be that they think it's run its course, or that they think it might be worth chancing a collector's edition.

[HOO-HAA]

Thanks for that, Steve.

It's heavily reduced on all formats, now. So couldn't see them milking a special edition...

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Yes the cold, hard arithmetic shows there properly won't be a sequel despite valiant efforts all round to make it otherwise. Oh well you can but try. 

[Hawkmumbler]

Anchorman got a sequel by fan demand almost a decade after it's initial release. Never say never.

[JOE SOAP]

Anchorman got a sequel by fan demand almost a decade after it's initial release. Never say never.

Fan demand and it made a profit at the box-office.

[HOO-HAA]

Riddick's another one, though. Didn't Chronicles bomb at box office? And yet here we are, several years later, with a sequel...

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

You people are the antidote required for my natural born pessimism!

[JOE SOAP]

Riddick's another one, though. Didn't Chronicles bomb at box office? And yet here we are, several years later, with a sequel...

Only after Riddick himself negotiated getting and owning the rights back from Universal by trading appearances in Fast & Furious films and then he put his house up as collateral to help fund it himself. Despite Chronicles... failure Pitch Black and the Riddick character all ready had an ok track-record before it and Diesel has an enormous world-wide following (58 million facebook followers) which helped convince Universal to agree to distribute the film for him.