According to Wiki, the maker of the movie said that a sequel would be possible if the movie manages to make at least 50mill during its run in theaters.
That possibility is seeming pretty distant. The film only made 6 million in its opening weekend. Interest in the movie isn't going to increase much past its opening few days unless word of mouth gets around that it's a good movie and people who wouldn't normally have gone to see it are intrigued into giving it a chance.
Originally posted by Tzeentch._
According to Wiki, the maker of the movie said that a sequel would be possible if the movie manages to make at least 50mill during its run in theaters.That possibility is seeming pretty distant. The film only made 6 million in its opening weekend. Interest in the movie isn't going to increase much past its opening few days unless word of mouth gets around that it's a good movie and people who wouldn't normally have gone to see it are intrigued into giving it a chance.
Australia will save the day. 42 mill is nothing.
From what I understand, the producers were pretty confident that the film was going to bomb. So I imagine they felt that cheaping out on marketing and such would cut their losses.
It's a self-fulfilling prophesy of course- if they had spent more money to get some good starpower in the film and better marketing it probably would be doing better in the box office -but that's movie producers for you.
Originally posted by roughrider
I saw it last night.Simply put - honour has been restored to Judge Dredd.
It's an honest, grimly satisfying thriller; it's style evokes early John Carpenter in it's relentlessness. It exists to satisfy it's hardcore faithful fans, and as a rebuke (OK, as a kick in the jewels) against everything wrong with the Stallone version.
Anyhow, got back from finally seeing this. Like Blax, I had seven or so people total in the theater room unsurprisingly. Hell, I don't think my theater even plays the 3D version of the movie anymore, so I saw it in regular. Shame since it had some parts that the 3D would've really complemented unlike most other "3D" films. Seeing this also kinda made me realize how great or better Stallone's Dredd could've been if it had been half as violent or bloody... lol Should have since it was R-rated too. Most of all though, always having the helmet on gave Dredd the justice and badassery he deserved. This has much more room open for a sequel than Stallone's Dredd as well, which I guess may not won't happen due to what's been said about the marketing...
Originally posted by Ascendancy
Looks like this might be along the lines of Equilibrium: enjoyable but not marketed for crap. Why is it that movies with homeboy from Doom never get good marketing?