Dredd (2012)

[JOE SOAP]

If it happens, I will promise to kiss Karl Urban somehow!

You'd do that anyway.

[Steve Green]

"Eat recycled news - it's good for the environment and OK for you..."

[JOE SOAP]

We are eco-concious.

[Beeks]

Just seen that Boondock Saints is to get another movie

That bombed in the cinema but had strong home figures

So there's always hope

[dweezil2]

Perhaps to further show fan support for Dredd and a potential sequel we could organise an online "pledge to buy Dredd Friday" or something along those lines? Pick an imminent forthcoming date and maybe someone on here could rustle up a suitably striking image to go along with it and we could share this to friends on Facebook, Twitter etc, where fans (and potential new fans) pledge to buy a Dredd DVD or Blu-ray to further the cause? What do others think?   

I'd buy another copy (or two).

[Dodsy]

Is all this buying two or three copies actually helping things though? If the big jump in sales is due to fans buying 2 or 3 copies each it doesn't really solve the problem at the box office does it? Then when/ if a sequel is made would we be back at square one.

[Steve Green]

Uh-huh.

From the maker's POV, sure it likely shifts more copies, as does re-heating old news, but it's still going to be a vocal minority like the ones at last year's SDCC preview who gave it positive buzz.

[JOE SOAP]

http://2000adonline.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe/post

[A.Cow]

Slight correction- International Box Office: $27,454,280
http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Dredd
Where did you get these numbers? I have slightly different estimates that include rentals and TV rights.

The sources are listed in my original table; my $22m international came from Box Office Mojo (full breakdown at http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=dredd.htm) which seemed to justify its figures more precisely than the-numbers.com

[JOE SOAP]

The sources are listed in my original table; my $22m international came from Box Office Mojo (full breakdown at http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=dredd.htm) which seemed to justify its figures more precisely than the-numbers.com

I've found BoxOfficeMojo generally wrong - even the numbers on their foreign earnings list add up to more than the $22 million total they state at the top - and they stop updating after a certain window whereas the numbers are generally constant and correct.

I was wondering where you got your estimated pro rata blu-ray/DVD numbers from?

[Stan]

That petition link doesn't work by the way.

[Stan]

Ack. Never mind. To the petition thread!

[JOE SOAP]

If a sequel ever does emerge I hope it's held off till 2016. The slate for 2015 if all ready full:


    Avengers: Age of Ultron
    Ant Man
    Star Wars Episode VII
    Jurassic Park IV
    WarCraft
    James Bond 24
    Pirates Of The Caribbean 5
    Terminator
    Independence Day 2
    Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 2
    Finding Dory
    Assassin's Creed
    Fantastic Four
    Inferno – the Da Vinci Code threequel
   

[JOE SOAP]

Add SuperBatMan to that list as well.

[A.Cow]

I've found BoxOfficeMojo generally wrong [...]

Cheers -- fair point.

I was wondering where you got your estimated pro rata blu-ray/DVD numbers from?

Based it on the ratio of US vs. International box office.  Hence the $27M figure would scale these as well, adding $12M worldwide and bringing the estimated total income to around $100M.  Still 10% short of break-even.

It's certainly a very rough calculation, based on a lot of presumptions, but explains a reticence to invest in a sequel.  After all, relatively few sequels make a bigger box office profit than the original (http://www.moviescopemag.com/features/the-economics-of-sequels/), and much of the time there are other factors such as merchandising -- minimal in the case of Dredd.