Oh, poor Judge Dredd. Apparently, he just isn’t destined for movie success, with his second movie following the lead of the first and… well, flopping at the box office:
In sixth place, comic book adaptation/remake Dredd bombed with just $6.3 million from 2,506 locations. That’s less than one-third of Kick-Ass‘s $19.8 million, and only a little over half of the original Judge Dredd‘s $12.3 million (and that movie was considered a flop 17 years ago!). It’s at least up on Shoot ‘Em Up ($5.7 million) and about on par with April’s Lockout ($6.2 million), though those comparisons suggest Dredd is on track for less than $20 million through its entire run.
It made less than half of the first Dredd movie?
Ouch.
September 24th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Saw it Friday and it made me really irritable about the Stallone film. If that hadn’t happened, this would have done great.
September 24th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
it seems to have done well in the UK
September 25th, 2012 at 5:34 am
My eye open wide when I read Dredd 3D bombs at the Box Office. Most critics forgot that the original version didn’t the 3D effect. The movie cost more money to made. The new actor look and sound like Sly Stallone from the original movie. I will save my money and buy the DVD when it become available. I got a feeling that the DVD format will save the movie and god help me that here will be a third installment of Judge Dredd in the near future.
September 25th, 2012 at 5:53 am
Unfortunately the film’s not done very well in the UK either, as it’s taken just 3.7M UK sterling (or $6.01M) after three weekends on release, and dropped 50% week-on-week last weekend. While it would be great to think Blu-ray and DVD sales could bail it out I don’t think it’s very likely.
Still,there’s always the chance that a flop cult movie can generate a sequel, but I hope we don’t have to wait as long as we did for “Escape From L.A.” (fifteen years) or “Tron: Legacy” (twenty eight years)!
October 2nd, 2012 at 9:46 am
Why has this film done so badly? I thought the plot was a bit crap – sort of Die Hard meets The Raid (hardly any specific Dredd world content) but the film was reasonably entertaining and well-made. More people should have supported it. It was never going to be a mega-hit but it deserved to do better than it’s done.
I doubt there will be a third Judge Dredd film but if it happens, for Grud’s sake, hire someone that can deliver an imaginative storyline! Don’t copy other films’ plots!
October 5th, 2012 at 7:58 am
lol well maybe its cuz the original film while it may not have been that great a movie, still had ENTERTAINMENT value and was a all around fun explosive comic book movie, kinda like batman forever of the same year ( although that did enormously better). you also had SYLVESTER STALLONE DAMNIT. one of the bioggest baddest action stars in the world at the time. you also had rob schnieder, who i thought was quite hilarious, and diane lane. in the new? um, i dont even know who the new guy is, and i didnt recognize anyone. no name losers, which is not a box office draw. and from what i sqw of the trailers, it looks like any number of similiar style “gritty realistic” movies you see today. and people are surprised that this flopped? if you put a name actor in the role like with stallone i bet it would have done better, but it made less then half of the original. whos surprised? not me. i wouldhave seen it if they got stallone again cuz he WAS THE LAW.
October 16th, 2012 at 7:45 am
@dreddhead
Dredd went into production before The Raid.. it was actually the fact that it had to go through lots of 3D post-production which meant it was released long afterwards.
A mixture of Stallone, Lionsgate’s shoddy distribution and 3D killed this film.