Judge Dredd Reboot!! - Part 2

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^It wouldnt surprise me if they did an Anime of Dredd just to get the character out there to more people for any potential sequel.

[DarkSovereignty]

An animate dredd would be awesome. Maybe on adult swim or something. Just to enhance the characters exposure to the public.

[rogue trooper]

Originally Posted by Brian Braddock

If they went animated, I'd prefer to see a more 'western' animation style than the whole Anime inspired Animatix/Gotham Knight approach. Actually, as I'm typing this I'm wondering what happened to that proposed ABC Warrior cartoon? The promo's been on Youtube for ages but the project seems to have stalled.

Well, I wouldn't mind an anthology that has some western animation stories, and other stories that are in eastern style. I want to see Dredd done in a DKR-type animation, most certainly, but I'd also like to see Dredd be animated by Madhouse Studios(Vampire Hunter D:Blodlust, Batman:Gotham Knight's last segment, X-Men Anime).

[DouglasJ]

Only just saw this on Blu-Ray, refused to see it at the cinema because I can't stand 3D (headaches and all that) and there were no 2D showings within a 3 hour drive... but I absolutely loved it. Absolutely top 5 of 2012.

[grout]

You know its really funny,,, im 32 years old and went to visit my parents.. I watched Dredd with them and my Mother really liked the film.. I was not expecting that, those type movies are not her cup of tea.. But she liked it,, makes me wonder how big an age range Dredd has in viewers..

[gwynplaine]

Originally Posted by DarkSovereignty

An animate dredd would be awesome. Maybe on adult swim or something. Just to enhance the characters exposure to the public.

I wouldn't mind seeing a mocap Dredd, like Tintin or Beowulf. It would be a good way to do the Dark Judges and Judge Death justice (pun intended)

[flickchick85]

Originally Posted by gwynplaine

I wouldn't mind seeing a mocap Dredd, like Tintin or Beowulf.

Those movies are not cheap. If they were gonna spend that much on Dredd, I'd prefer they just go live-action again. But let's be real, they're never gonna spend that much on Dredd.

[gwynplaine]

Originally Posted by flickchick85

Those movies are not cheap. If they were gonna spend that much on Dredd, I'd prefer they just go live-action again. But let's be real, they're never gonna spend that much on Dredd.

True.

[Valaquen]

LIONSGATE HOME ENTERTAINMENT'S DREDD TOPS SALES CHARTS IN 3-D BLU-RAY, DVD AND DIGITAL DOWNLOADS, BIGGEST HOME ENTERTAINMENT NEW RELEASE OF THE YEAR
The verdict is in and Lionsgate LGF, a leading global entertainment company, announced today that the home entertainment release of DREDD claimed the number one spot on the DVD sell-through and Blu-ray charts with 650,000 units sold, making it the best-selling new release title of the year. Blu-ray units accounted for nearly 50% of week 1 POS at retail. In addition, the critically acclaimed thriller, starring Karl Urban (Star Trek) as the titular character Judge Dredd, was the top film download for the week, outpacing all other titles in digital sales as well.

http://money.msn.com/business-news/a...ND_MEDIA&isub=

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

At last... a bit of good news.

[Kane52630]

Nice, by now I'm not too worried about the sequel. I'm pretty sure the studio will find a way to make it.

[the dmg]

Home video sales are going to surpass its BO fairly quickly at this rate. Sweet.

[Valaquen]

Originally Posted by the dmg

Home video sales are going to surpass its BO fairly quickly at this rate. Sweet.

I am absolutely and utterly terrible at math, so if we say that each copy of Dredd sold for, say, $10 each, and sold 650,000 copies, then how much is that? What guesstimate for profit are we looking at? $60-65 mil?

[grout]

Originally Posted by Kane52630

Nice, by now I'm not too worried about the sequel. I'm pretty sure the studio will find a way to make it.

Agreed,,, I think its inevitable ... I know those guys are sitting back looking at the sales saying "damn! maybe we have got something here". "Karl, dont take that helmet off yet!"

Hell I hope they glued the helmet to his head at this point..

[LuisTX85]

Awesome news on DVD/Blu-Ray sales,I bought my Blu-Ray copy last night,IF we won't get a sequel on the big screen then I sure hope we at least get an animated film or even a video game with Urban to voice Dredd either one.

[wobbly]

Originally Posted by Valaquen

I am absolutely and utterly terrible at math, so if we say that each copy of Dredd sold for, say, $10 each, and sold 650,000 copies, then how much is that? What guesstimate for profit are we looking at? $60-65 mil?

Nope: $650,000 x $10 = $6.5 Million. They would need to sell 6.5 million copies to get $65 million.

Then you take off the overheads (costs for making the DVD/Blu-Rays, packaging, distribution, retail mark-up and tax etc), and they are maybe getting 50% of whatever total the sales reach back in their pocket.

However the market doesn't end with DVD & Blu-Rays. There's the cable/satellite and tv rights to come, as well at netflix and so on.

So in the long run...considering they cannot have spent much on the marketing, they might get their budget back and maybe enough money on top with interest/positive feedback from all these post theatre markets to go for another film.

We can only hope for that at the moment though after the theatrical run disaster.

[grout]

Who was it in the thread that said Dredd had already made its money back upon release? If thats true plus the current good news surely they would green light it.

[The Guard]

Finally saw this. I liked it well enough, as it was fairly entertaining, with solid performances and good effects/action, especially for its budget. The characters and story weren't really that great, though Dredd was almost perfectly portrayed. It all felt kind of stripped down/bare bones, though, and overall, I think the original film has a better and more engaging storyline despite the silliness, but this isn't bad for a grittier, simpler reboot of sorts. Hoping they get a bit more ambitious with a sequel.

[Whiskey Tango]

Originally Posted by grout

Who was it in the thread that said Dredd had already made its money back upon release? If thats true plus the current good news surely they would green light it.

It didn't quite recoup costs in theaters. Something like $37 million BO vs $45 million budget.

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Originally Posted by wobbly

Nope: $650,000 x $10 = $6.5 Million. They would need to sell 6.5 million copies to get $65 million.

Then you take off the overheads (costs for making the DVD/Blu-Rays, packaging, distribution, retail mark-up and tax etc), and they are maybe getting 50% of whatever total the sales reach back in their pocket.

However the market doesn't end with DVD & Blu-Rays. There's the cable/satellite and tv rights to come, as well at netflix and so on.

So in the long run...considering they cannot have spent much on the marketing, they might get their budget back and maybe enough money on top with interest/positive feedback from all these post theatre markets to go for another film.

We can only hope for that at the moment though after the theatrical run disaster.

It seems to be doing well on DVD/BD here in the UK as well, 2 days after it came out there were no copies left in my local Tesco, so hopefully with it doing well internationally they can quickly make a profit.

[wobbly]

Originally Posted by Whiskey Tango

It didn't quite recoup costs in theaters. Something like $37 million BO vs $45 million budget.

According to Boxofficemojo the production budget was $50mil, and it's Worldwide gross was nearly $33mil ($13.4 mil in the US and £19.3 mil everywhere else), so they were on minus $17mil after the theatrical run.

Factor in the theatre and distributors cut (which is higher for the foreign markets too) and that gross goes down a lot so they have to make a good bit more than $17mil with DVD's/Blu-Rays etc to get into the black on this one.

My best guess (and I stress this is a pure guess as I have no idea just how much money they keep from everything) is they will need to sell something like a minimum of 2 million units of DVD & Blu-Rays to reach that target.

[Whiskey Tango]

Fine.

[Brian Braddock]

Signs for the Dredd Blu-Ray/DVD's everywhere throughout HMV in Liverpool One - couldnt find a single copy anywhere.

Happy Days.

Maybe there's hope yet.

[Jick09]

I watched the movie last week and I think it's an ok flick. Considering everything I read here and there, I thought it would be much more interesting, but there isn't anything in the movie that was really exciting to me.

Regardless of that, I think the movie was well done and I'd watch a sequel if it gets the same reception with the critics. This whole deal with the Dark Judges and Judge Death seem appealing.

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Originally Posted by wobbly

According to Boxofficemojo the production budget was $50mil, and it's Worldwide gross was nearly $33mil ($13.4 mil in the US and £19.3 mil everywhere else), so they were on minus $17mil after the theatrical run.

Factor in the theatre and distributors cut (which is higher for the foreign markets too) and that gross goes down a lot so they have to make a good bit more than $17mil with DVD's/Blu-Rays etc to get into the black on this one.

My best guess (and I stress this is a pure guess as I have no idea just how much money they keep from everything) is they will need to sell something like a minimum of 2 million units of DVD & Blu-Rays to reach that target.

According to the-numbers.com, Dredd made more than that WW, it actually made just over $36 million WW. So your prediction may be a little off, although its probably still aboue right. Either way, lets hope it happens.

Originally Posted by Brian Braddock

Signs for the Dredd Blu-Ray/DVD's everywhere throughout HMV in Liverpool One - couldnt find a single copy anywhere.

Happy Days.

Maybe there's hope yet.

Damn, was in there yesterday and didnt even think to look. Anyway, thats both Tesco (the Allerton Rd one) and HMV that have a ran out of copies in 10 days since the release. Surely the same is happening in the rest of the UK as well? Either way, good news and some hope still for a sequel.