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Originally Posted by Perlman
All for another Hellboy. The second one was a mess but it was an awesome mess.
Of course it's a money thing with Universal. Who knows if it will ever be green lit.Quote:
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Not that I was ever expecting this to actually happen, but:
The studios really have no faith in this IP. :(
Why the fuck not?
Because this:
HELLBOY
Production Budget: $66 million
Domestic total: $59 million
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
Production Budget: $85 million
Domestic total: $75 million
And they looked damn good for those budgets, I thought. Especially the second.
Well yes, but doesn't include dvd, blu-ray, toys, etc, sales either. All I'm saying is that while they may not have been monster smashes, they should've at least been profitable, no?
Edit: And the second more so than the first, so slamming the door so hard on a third seems odd.
Yeah, but think about it, bankrolling a movie project is literally an investment. So it's not just whether or not it makes money, it's whether or not the money is worth all the time, resource, and reputation you put into it. Selling such an investment would be like saying, "Trust me, give me $50-80 million dollars, and in about 2-3 years, if we work really, really hard to push this thing, we might break even! Perhaps even make a little bit of profit!"
Yeah I understand that, but it doesn't seem like the disparity is that great that they can't work something out.
The DVD/Blu-Ray is actually a huge reason why GDT has said it simply isn't feasible to make another one. The home market for purchasing physical media has dwindled to the point that they can't recoup a meaningful profit on these films from non-theatrical media. Like Number8 said, they don't make enough. It's the same reason why people were actually concerned about BvS making "only" $870 mil worldwide against a $250 mil budget. Because a lot of money is lost to distribution and fees to actually show the film.
The old rule of thumb is that a film needs to make double its budget before it starts to see profit, but it's actually a little worse than that (maybe two and a half).
I'm still in the "part 1 was better than part 2; the humour in part 2 was kinda lame" camp.
But this still sucks the big one. Love Del Toro, love Perlman, love the character.
I'm still in the "part 1 was better than part 2; the humour in part 2 was kinda lame" camp.
But this still sucks the big one. Love Del Toro, love Perlman, love the character.
Too bad it can't be done on a premium cable channel or something. Hellboy 2 felt to me like a ten-episode season of an HBO show condensed into a feature.
I enjoy both flicks about equally - Hellboy 2 felt a bit more diffuse, but Hellboy had that annoying audience avatar character, but both had such Perlmany goodness that a Hellboy 3 would've been welcome.
Ummmmm helllllllllllo - R- Rated and directed by Neil Marshall????? Yes please.
Ehh. Would've rather had Perlboy back for the final smashathon.