Dragonball: Evolution

Originally posted by Alucard25
The Taiwan third weekend number is not a misprint: $552 weekend gross with a 97.2% drop. My guess is that it lost a theater or two.

Countries marked with an asterisk (*) have weekly, not weekend, numbers.

Third Weekend numbers:

China (not yet reported)
Hong Kong $16,556 -84.3%
Japan $523,062 -49.9%
Malaysia $84,150 -74.4%
Singapore $20,601 -84.4%
South Korea (not yet reported)
Taiwan $552 -97.2%
Thailand $19,893 -84.5%

Second Weekend numbers:

*China $3,510,466 +14.5%
Hong Kong $105,631 -76.7%
Japan $1,043,528 -59.5%
Malaysia $328,898 -55.7%
Singapore $131,945 -65.6%
South Korea $316,761 -70.5%
Taiwan $19,677 -77.0%
Thailand $128,642 -60.4%

First Weekend numbers:

*China $3,066,634 #1
Hong Kong $453,783 #1
*Indonesia $646,366 #1
Japan $2,578,896 #3
Malaysia $742,225 #1
Singapore $384,042 #1
South Korea $1,071,856 #2
Taiwan $85,606 #5
Thailand $324,542 #1

The Chinese really love this movie!

Wow did this just bomb an opening day of $2,075,000 lol.

Originally posted by Alucard25
Wow did this just bomb an opening day of $2,075,000 lol.

Wow... all this bad press may actually force me to go and see this. Anything this bad surely can't be missed!

Originally posted by Menetnashté
What'd you expect? I go to the movies often and have yet to see a preview in the theater or even a spot on TV. Theaters seem to recognize this as well, my theater only had like 4 showtimes for it 😬

Oh I knew this was gonna bomb been saying it for months I just thought it was funny 😆 .

saw this today..

anyone stay afterward

Originally posted by Alucard25
Wow did this just bomb an opening day of $2,075,000 lol.

daaaaaaaamn!

that's it..

wow.

meh, the weekends not over anyway. We'll have to wait till Monday to see the tally. It could turn around.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
daaaaaaaamn!

that's it..

wow.

meh, the weekends not over anyway. We'll have to wait till Monday to see the tally. It could turn around.

this will most likely make a little over $6 million

as this has made the bulk of its money overseas it may make back the negative cost

BruceSkywalker, what did you think? Was it REALLY that bad?

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
this will most likely make a little over $6 million

as this has made the bulk of its money overseas it may make back the negative cost

Well 50 million is only the production cost that's not counting money spent on marketing and distribution and that can range in the 10s of millions,plus studios don't get back the full box office anyways.

Originally posted by dadudemon
BruceSkywalker, what did you think? Was it REALLY that bad?

yes its is, Even seeing Jamie Chung fight could not save it..

Originally posted by Alucard25
Well 50 million is only the production cost that's not counting money spent on marketing and distribution and that can range in the 10s of millions,plus studios don't get back the full box office anyways.

I doubt Fox spent much to promote this.. If this does make it to the negative cost then fox will be happy

i went to the movies last night intending to go see this movie. but when i got to the cineplex, this movie was p laying on the smallest screen. i ended up seeing observe and report. way worth the money..

Originally posted by Robtard
Oh, come on now. I used to watch it years and years ago and I'll admit, I enjoyed it then. Looking back now, the stories were predictable and and the dialogue was horrible. The fighting, well that was shit too for the most part.

You'd have a good 7-8 episodes of nonsense leading up to the fight and then all you'd see is a bunch of squiggly lines (used to depict the uber-speeds) spotted in with stills of someone getting hit here and there.

Vegeta will always be my hero though.

Isn't this supposed to be a reimagination of regular Dragon Ball (when Goku was growing up and used to fly around on his nimbus). No Vegeta yet. It's supposed to be based on the Chinese story of the monkey king (think The Forbidden Kingdom, which was another let down).

This movie sucked and for it to be based on young Goku it got a LOT about his life and the characters blatantly wrong and overall it was pointless. I hated it.

Its as if they didn't even bother trying to be faithful.

Making Goku Caucasian was the biggest let down for me. What on earth did that achieve. You can't look at him and even for one second believe he is Goku.

i guess there will be no hope for a sequel then

but in all fairness, what we really need is a review from someone who's never heard of the Dragonball franchise before, so that we can get an opinion without it being compared to the original story

who knows, maybe it was a pretty good film for the non-fan

well, hearing that there was going to be a live action movie, I thought it was pretty cool. Of course that was when i was like... 10 I'm 17. ALmost 18. Just by seeing the commercials, I was not excited to even think about seeing this movie. Now I want to go see it and make fun of it the entire time in the theatre.

Originally posted by vvvrulz
Its as if they didn't even bother trying to be faithful.

Making Goku Caucasian was the biggest let down for me. What on earth did that achieve. You can't look at him and even for one second believe he is Goku.

Also, the movie was bad all round...But Yamcha was by far the worst.

Originally posted by ThunderGodEneru
Considering he is not even Asian in the anime, why? 😐

Also, the movie was bad all round...But Yamcha was by far the worst.

He never said that Goku was supposed to be Asian, dude. 313

Originally posted by wiseflickguy
Isn't this supposed to be a reimagination of regular Dragon Ball (when Goku was growing up and used to fly around on his nimbus). No Vegeta yet. It's supposed to be based on the Chinese story of the monkey king (think The Forbidden Kingdom, which was another let down).

Forbidden Kingdom was actually not bad. Even the nerdy non-asian protagonidt became more badass than Chatwin's portrayal of Goku by the end, and he was only in two one-on-one fight scenes.