Friday & Early Wknd Estimates (9/21/12): END OF WATCH Solid, everything else soft...

[Hatebox]

You really don't know what you're talking about.

Toymaker rarely does.I'm not a massive JGL fan, but he already has a filmography that good actors twice his age would kill for.

[lilpunkryo]

I dunno how long we're supposed to wait for JGL to "have a career" before we can start saying we think he's talented because he's been working since he was like 12 and most of those films are at the very least solid and at best pretty damn good. And I say this as someone who's not fond of him personally because he can come off as a hipster douche a lot. Doesn't mean he doesn't have talent.

Edited September 24, 2012 by lilpunkryo

[Ozymandias]

Poor Dredd was one of the best of the year.Thanks stupid Americans and 1995 Stallone film.

[Master Scottb]

Poor Dredd was one of the best of the year.Thanks stupid Americans and 1995 Stallone film.

Don't blame us, blame the studio for its poor marketing and release date.

[Heretic]

Perks' 61k average is fantastic! I'm very interested to see what happens next week. I assume it'll be expanding a little bit at least.

[Ozymandias]

Don't blame us, blame the studio for its poor marketing and release date.

Thats part of it, but not all of it. The only reason I went to see this movie was because of the glowing reviews it was getting, otherwise I would've never given it a chance and thought it was another shitty Dredd film. But most of the general public don't check reviews or RT before they go see a movie so they probably dismissed this out of hand. I also think the exceptional violence may be too much for some people, plus the R rating.I really don't care much about the boxoffice it makes though, I'm just glad we got an excellent film.

[Master Scottb]

Thats part of it, but not all of it. The only reason I went to see this movie was because of the glowing reviews it was getting, otherwise I would've never given it a chance and thought it was another shitty Dredd film. But most of the general public don't check reviews or RT before they go see a movie so they probably dismissed this out of hand. I also think the exceptional violence may be too much for some people, plus the R rating.

If they had released this in June with a decent marketing campaign, instead of shitty September with crappy advertising it might of actually been a hit.

[Krissykins]

32million people went to see The Expendables 2? Really? Jesus christ.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Yeah, 7B people in the world.

[John Marston]

Dredd is not a movie that will appeal to general audiences. It was going to flop no matter what. Hell if they released in June alongside all the other big blockbusters it probably would have flopped even more!!

[CJohn]

Open Road's END OF WATCH officially clocked in at $13.1M--and will likely be #1 this weekend.

[ecstasy]

Open Road's END OF WATCH officially clocked in at $13.1M--and will likely be #1 this weekend.

Haha End of Watch came out of nowhere. Move over Clint and Jennifer. (If it holds. Still not totally sure about it.)

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

Punisher War Zone, while not exactly highly acclaimed, still received a lot of reviews stating it was better than the 2004 film. Regardless, it bombed badly. Dredd looked like more of the same and the good reviews(way better than Stallone's film) were not enough to rise above its lack of interest and star power. Also, say what you want about the Stallone film, it was fun. Dredd looked too bleak , and no matter how much better of an adaption it is, the public perception was that Judge Dredd was a comic-al character. The GP was never gonna accept a serious Dredd film sans Stallone(or another big star).When will Hollywood stop attempting to cash in on popular megastar action films of the 80's/90's when they can't even get said former megastar to at least do a cameo. What's next? A remake of Die Hard? Demolition Man? Commando? This needs to stop.

[JackO]

Open Road's END OF WATCH officially clocked in at $13.1M--and will likely be #1 this weekend.

That's pretty crazy. Still it had great marketing.

[cookie]

When will Hollywood stop attempting to cash in on popular megastar action films of the 80's/90's when they can't even get said former megastar to at least do a cameo.

Funny thing is that the Stallone Dredd wasn't even popular to begin with.

[75Live]

From Gitesh's twitter:

Tie broken. EndOfWatch opened #1 this wknd w/ $13,152,683, $4818 avg. House below & TroubleWithTheCurve at $12.1M.

[ecstasy]

Funny thing is that the Stallone Dredd wasn't even popular to begin with.

Exactly. If Stallone wasn't in it I doubt anybody would have seen it. It's not like Total Recall being remade.

[baumer]

The one....ONE trailer I saw for Dredd didn't make me want to see the film. It looked.....I don't even know how it looked. It just didn't look appealing. And for those people who are not comic book people, why remove JUDGE from the name? What the fuck is DREDD?I think it's easy to see why it failed. I'm not sure why it bombed, but a failure is not surprising.

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

Funny thing is that the Stallone Dredd wasn't even popular to begin with.

Nearly 200m WW adjusted isn't too bad, but considering its budget(90m was a lot for 1995, although it's not Waterworld), yeah, it was a flop.

[Accursed Arachnid!™]

The one....ONE trailer I saw for Dredd didn't make me want to see the film. It looked.....I don't even know how it looked. It just didn't look appealing. And for those people who are not comic book people, why remove JUDGE from the name? What the fuck is DREDD?I think it's easy to see why it failed. I'm not sure why it bombed, but a failure is not surprising.

It was probably an attempt to further differentiate it from the Stallone flick, but this should have never been greenlit in the first place, regardless of its name.