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[but I wouldn't say the movie was entirely based on it]

I've always found this bit of trivia a bit odd. The strip is just a woman being attacked by a robot for a few pages, not much else. The movie Hardware does a lot of things throughout its running time. I can of course tell the writer was a 2000AD fan, and crediting the Tooth is fair, but I wouldn't say the movie was entirely based on it.

The legal system seemed to differ with you on that. Financial compensation for plagiarism and an agreement on onscreen credit were agreed on.

[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).]

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. 

Think you're being a bit generous with your numbers, alas. To date, it's taken £3,696,772 in the UK, the equivalent of about $6 million. (I'm assuming you were talking in US dollars, and not Australian. Apologies, if otherwise.) It's down to 9 in the UK charts this week, with takings of £382K, a figure that's now only going to continue to decline in further weeks.

Given that, I think it'll now unfortunately struggle to see $10 million in Britain, and certainly no chance of $15 million. If it can't do those numbers in the UK, a country of 60 million people where awareness of the character is higher than anywhere else, it's not going to do it in Australia, which has a third of the UK's population.

I think this is one of those films that'll gain cult status (and thereby warrant sequels) over time, like Alien.

Errrr.....Alien was a major hit when it was released. The reason it took 7 years for a sequel to appear was more because of the way the film industry operated back then, when not every genre film was automatically seen as studio franchise fodder.

[$142,899]

Im not that bothered yet, for example, check out Last King Of Scotland...
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lastkingofscotland.htm

Opening Weekend:    $142,899
(#37 rank, 4 theaters, $35,724 average)
% of Total Gross:    0.8%
> View All 34 Weekends
Widest Release:     540 theaters

went on to do:

Total Lifetime Grosses
Domestic:     $17,606,684       36.4%
+ Foreign:     $30,756,832       63.6%
Worldwide:     $48,363,516    

So all we have to do is wait for Karl Urban to win the Oscar for Best Actor for his Dredd performance, and the film's quids in?

That's award-nominated whore, thank you very much.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-09-17-rocksteady-six-to-start-and-piranha-bytes-nominated-for-writing-award

Paul Crocker was nominated for Batman: Arkham City, Naomi Alderman for the innovative fitness app Zombies, Run! and Gordon Rennie, Alan Barnes and Emma Beeby for Risen 2.

One scriptdroid, one ex Command Module droid and one scriptdroid-under-construction in the running there. (Note also that Alex Garland won it last year for Enslaved.)

The difference between Alien and Prometheus has nothing to do with Dan O'Bannion, whose initial schlocky script was heavily rewritten by Walter Hill and David Giler. It's the difference between a talent at the start of his directorial career, and a man in his 70s whose best creative years are well behind him.

Brace yourselves now for the Bladerunner revisitation.

Gears of War came out in November 2006, six months after the Rogue game. It would have pretty much finished in development when Rogue came out, so it's pretty difficult to see how the Epic guys could have lifted much from the Rebellion game.

In the creative industries, you learn to chalk this kind of coincidence stuff up to "just one of those things".

A proper convention dedicated to 2000AD would be good, one that was in london or something and cost a small price to get in.

The last London 2000AD-specific convention was almost 10 years ago, held in a place near the Barbican.

IIRC, Rebellion lost a fair bit of money on it, hence why subsequent ones were held in Nottingham and Oxford.

Brit developer Rebellion own the comic brand 2000AD, which owns the Judge Dredd IP. They've got form in licensed and original games: they developed Aliens Vs Colonial Marines for Sega, Dredd vs Death and, most recently, Sniper Elite V2

JournoFail. The Colonial Marines game is being made by US developer Gearbox, not Rebellion, and hasn't actually even been released yet. (Although it seems to have been in development forever, starting about the same time as Rebellion's AvP game, which came out two and a half years ago.)

...the 2006 Rebellion game (wot I done wrote). Good to see it so fondly remembered, and some interesting commentry on there sadly having been no other 2000AD games since then.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-02-retrospective-rogue-trooper

http://www.fumboo.com/category/blog/

Some great thoughts here from artist Jamie Smart (he of the "manga-influenced angular shapes" and "pages of badly-drawn crap", presumably.)

[droid]

Lucas owns trademark on the word droid

"These aren't the droids you're suing us for."

Is Android not the market leader now? Should be the priority wth the Ipad people left to wait. I am android and shall purchase this product when available.

Yes, but one manufacturer and a limited number of product types makes it far easier (and cheaper) to design games and Apps for iOS, as compared to Android devices - where you have multiple competing manufacturers, all putting out often very different models of their own, all with varying screen sizes and types, button/touchscreen input systems, processing power etc, and your game has to be able to run properly on every one of them.

Throw in the fact that iDevice users tend to buy significantly more games and Apps than Android users and what you get is that developing software for Android systems means spending more money to reach fewer customers.

Sorry, Android people, but them's the harsh facts of mobile games development at present.

Dandy, Beano and their short-lived sister title Magic all took their names from contemporary words meaning "great".

Or possibly "radical", "wicked" or something else that young people say now.

Groovy.

Surely Beezer falls into the same pattern as well?