Quoting del Torohttp://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/07/1...o-ron-perlman/Quoting Perlman
Quoting del Torohttp://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/07/1...o-ron-perlman/Quoting Perlman
All for another Hellboy. The second one was a mess but it was an awesome mess.
I liked the second one more than the first. Maybe because it was messier...Quoting Winston* (view post)
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Of course it's a money thing with Universal. Who knows if it will ever be green lit.Quoting Mike Mignola
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Not that I was ever expecting this to actually happen, but:
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
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
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
And they looked damn good for those budgets, I thought. Especially the second.
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But $99 and $160 worldwide. Surely that has to count too.Quoting number8 (view post)
Not included: Advertising and distribution budgets which sometimes equal the production budget.Quoting Skitch (view post)
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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?Quoting Lazlo (view post)
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!"
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Yeah I understand that, but it doesn't seem like the disparity is that great that they can't work something out.
Why bother with Hellyboy 3 when Universal will make billions on Jurassic World sequels.Quoting Skitch (view post)
I wonder why they bother with a lot of things. I guess making money doesn't matter as much making tons of money or losing tons to try to find another 'verse to mine.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
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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.Quoting Skitch (view post)
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.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
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.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
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.