Dredd - Box Office

[painbros22]

Yeah Scojo is now spamming the IMDB board to death rendering it un-usuable, so i'm off to bed, all this depression is doing my head in. Nighty nite.

[Stan]

Damn, he must be bad. It's unusable at the best of times!

[MR. ELIMINATOR]

It's like the fall of Rome on here

It hasn't even been out 24 hours in the states yet

The Film cost 45 million to make which is fuck all, when you have a near global market to recoup the costs
it will make it's money back,  5 million from the UK(at least) 20 million from the US(at least)... and then the other 198 countries it has or will be released in

the number crunchers at lionsgate/reliance/IM and DNA  would not deliberately back something that was going to fail, the are aware of the limited appeal.. they will have done the maths, it will turn a profit.

we all appreciate that big openers in the States can make or break American films but this is a low-budget British indie film, backed by Indian money

Then theirs BD/DVD and commando forces who will bump up the final figure.

when the bottomline is finally announced in six or seven months time then we'll know if we will get a sequel.

Garland himself said that it was a hard sell, and it was a long shot that it would turn a huge profit off the bat.

any way back to the looting and the panicking ..if anyones looking for me i'll be trying to break into the FutureShop

Needs a damned LIKE button

The commando forces comment made me laugh. Yeah, you are right!

[Dreddzilla]

I'm not gonna lie, the box office reports are not comforting. (okay down right depressing)
I saw it, LOVED IT.
Sad we won't get a sequel.

[The Sherman Kid]

Glad that other thread has been locked- why oh why would you start that after ONE day?Dumb.

[JOE SOAP]

You could say that about a lot of the posts on this thread too.

[M.I.K.]

Wait...

[Dreddzilla]

Belive me I'm hoping & praying good word of mouth helps in the coming weeks, but the numbers are just not good.
I mean I thought dredd would at least come close to District 9's Opening Weekend of about $40 million, But Dredd's take in 2 days is just $2,230,000.
I'm trying to be positive, and I'm praying for a miracle here, but I'm prepared for the worst.

[JOE SOAP]

People don't need to reitrate it in every post.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

The weekend isn't over yet folks, stay positive!

[JOE SOAP]

Exactly.

[blackmocco]

Bunch of mates who went to see it in Los Angeles today at various different theaters and it was doing brisk business. Let's wait and see. I've been barraging my Facebook page with everything Dredd related the last few weeks to the point where I thought maybe I was damaging friendships. Haha! Interesting to note the people most annoyed have now seen it three times and are raving.

[JOE SOAP]

Can't stop the signal.

[Beaky Smoochies]

Having now read through this entire thread, I feel compelled to (once again) break my vow of no further posts, this whole 'doom and gloom' thing today simply won't do, if you all are feeling down in the dumps about Dredd's potentially low box-office take, then spare a thought for Alex Garland and the DNA Films team who poured their heart and soul and professional reputations into making this the PROPER Judge Dredd adaptation we've all hoped for... and by gum, they darn well succeeded, and then some! 

If Dredd tanks - and it hasn't finished it's full theatrical run yet, not even close - then it won't be because the product was lousy, it'll be because it always had an uphill struggle to catch on with a wider audience; it was a dark, violent, grim, gritty, visceral film based on relatively obscure source material that had no A-List stars/director/producer, and had a restrictive R/18 rating to boot, it always was going to be a long shot, a leap of faith, a step in the dark, but be of good cheer that they actually took that step, I know I am... we got ONE HECK of a movie because other people took a chance on a project they believed in!

Lastly, I feel the need to point out that the 2004 version of The Punisher only made $55m at the box-office worldwide on a $33m budget, which is pretty bad - considering it had a massive star in John Travolta in it - but it took off like gangbusters once it hit DVD, selling nearly 2 million copies in the first week of release, and four million within a month, making a further $60m, and upping the total take to $115m worldwide... more than enough to get a sequel, which it promptly got!  Whilst not saying that Dredd's fortunes will follow this pattern, but it has both every chance to and no reason not to, I personally still hold out hope that Dredd will find it's audience on home release - outside of the cutthroat box-office competition - and if it does, a sequel is not only NOT an impossibility, far from it, but a very real likely prospect.  If they do get a sequel, we'll more than likely not hear about it until early next summer at best, so pipe down with the negative waves, think beautiful thoughts, and before you know it, we might - just MIGHT - be surprised at how this particular saga plays out, it ain't over yet...

[DrJomster]

It was worth returning to the thread for that Beaky. Good stuff!

Look you other lot. Get out there with your own positive word of mouth on the net or in (gasp) real life rather than fretting on here. See the film again cos it's great, get the soundtrack, blast away on Dredd vs Zombies (which has had a cool makeover for the film including the trailer!) and give a good review on iTunes, buy trade paperbacks on Dredd and other 2000AD characters... I'll stop as it's probably obvious where I'm going with this!

Ps. And as before. Just hang on in there. Be positive and DO positive things. If that's not too hard. Ta.