Oh Boy, Hellboy's Box Office Debut is Hell

By James Whitbrook

 

 

Sometimes, a barrage of bad reviews can do little to dent the opening of a blockbuster film – just look at the vicious critical reaction to Batman v Superman and its initially-impressive take at the box office.

 

But it seems like Hellboy, fresh off of a critical drubbing, couldn’t escape the level of hell Anung Un Rama was first summoned from.

 

Deadline reports that Neil Marshall’s Hellboy took in just $12 million dollars in its opening weekend, significantly lower than either Guillermo Del Toro-directed takes on Mike Mignola’s beloved supernatural hero.

 

It fact, it was more than 60 percent down from the series’ high with Hellboy II: The Golden Army back in 2008.

 

Full Story: https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/04/oh-boy-hellboys-box-office-debut-is-hell/

Oh no, Perlman isn't playing Hellboy.

I'll probably still go, seeing as the other movies on offer where I live are not much.

As for Avengers, mere mush for uncritical cinema goers. Profitable though. Sad that excellent films go no where while the mush mints it.

Ronald Perlman really made that part his own. When I saw the trailers and saw the new guy playing Hellboy, it was clear that a lot of the character was lost - ain't gonna watch it 

Hollywood... meh... No thanks.

I've seen it over at Fashion Island. It's a weird mishmash of reboot and new non-cannon story line. Much as I like Ian McShane, he wasn't the Professor.  And Hellboy? Not impressed. The end of the movie discovery, after the professors death, of Abe Sapiens in the tube just destroyed the last links to the comic books.

 

It reminded me of the X-Men movies where the writers/director took bits and pieces and jumbled them together into a mish-mash that anybody who'd read the works on which they were based just gets disgusted. Still, they did get my seat money, so for them I suppose it was a win?