Box Office Takings for The Predator

[viendammage]

Iron man 3, to me, is the best film of the 3.  Perhaps not the best 'Iron Man' movie but i find it to be a better film overal.  I just cant help but love me some Shane Black dialogue.

I think iron man 1 is miles away from 2 and 3.. I even preffee iron man 2 than 3..

To me Iron Man 2 is weakest because it just gives you more of what you liked from part 1 without adding anything to it. I had fun with 3 because it takes Tony out of his element and enjoyed The Mandarin twist which was pretty gutsy. Maybe people felt cheated based on the trailers but that means they did a good job of marketing and you probably wouldn't appreciate a Lo-Pan style Chinese sorcerer in 2000 whatever. Plus Ben Kingsley was hilarious as the drunk actor.

Shane Black is best when it's a few characters bickering, Riggs and Murtaugh's odd couple aesthetic in Lethal Weapon, etc. and it worked well for the most part in The Predator with the misfits. It's a messy film to be sure but entertaining.

[The Old One]

https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3524478/nobody-attends-hell-fest-predator-spine-ripped-box-office/

Predator & AVP -"We exist together now, two corpses in one grave."

[felix]

At least it broke past the $100 million mark. That's a small comfort.

[Corporal Hicks]

Last time I'm going to ask >> stop sniping at each other and be civil. You can both have this conversation without being rude.

Also I'm not interested in excuses or any such. Leave it alone. Continue on with the actual topic.

And snipped. That's all gone. That was nothing more than personal sniping and it's not welcome here.

[Samhain13]

At least it broke past the $100 million mark. That's a small comfort.

Too small for its budget. It have not even reached the 2x the budget mark. That would make this the biggest financial failure of all the movies so far. Shane and the studio failed this, they could have made a great movie but they wee too incompetent for that. If only Shane hadn't come up with his bad script or Fox hadn't accepted him we could have gotten maybe a Predators sequel or hell... any other idea might have done better than Shane's.

[Voodoo Magic]

As of Oct 1st: Worldwide: $116,499,914 and growing.

When all is said and done, China could be the deciding factor if The Predator is at a loss / breaks even / mild success.

[skull-splitter]

At least it broke past the $100 million mark. That's a small comfort.

Too small for its budget. It have not even reached the 2x the budget mark. That would make this the biggest financial failure of all the movies so far. Shane and the studio failed this, they could have made a great movie but they wee too incompetent for that. If only Shane hadn't come up with his bad script or Fox hadn't accepted him we could have gotten maybe a Predators sequel or hell... any other idea might have done better than Shane's.

Yip. And John Davis was there when they made both AvP-R and Predators, if you mix those you get The Predator, just with added snappy dialogue.

[BigDaddyJohn]

At least it broke past the $100 million mark. That's a small comfort.

Too small for its budget. It have not even reached the 2x the budget mark. That would make this the biggest financial failure of all the movies so far. Shane and the studio failed this, they could have made a great movie but they wee too incompetent for that. If only Shane hadn't come up with his bad script or Fox hadn't accepted him we could have gotten maybe a Predators sequel or hell... any other idea might have done better than Shane's.

Yip. And John Davis was there when they made both AvP-R and Predators, if you mix those you get The Predator, just with added snappy dialogue.

[SiL]

He was also there when they made Predator and Predator 2.

[Johnny Handsome]

He was also there when they made Predator and Predator 2.

Yup, he was also the one that got McTiernan and Arnold on board, Arnold got Stan Winston on board... the rest is history.

He's not the devil.

[Huggs]

He's not the devil.

Let's leave Randy Pitchford out of this, shall we? 

[Engineer]

Lmfao

[Voodoo Magic]

Box Office: If 'The Predator' Had Only Cost As Much As 'Predators,' It Would Already Be A Hit

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/10/08/box-office-if-the-predator-only-cost-as-much-as-predators-it-wouldve-been-a-hit/

[goose_3387]

I know there was reshoots but I'm still baffled as to how they spent so much making this movie. Given the actors, shooting locations, questionable CGI, it looks a $40/50 million movie at best.

Given Larry Fong was hired I was looking forward to seeing his influence yet compared to his other work there was no evidence he was behind a camera.

[Nathsp]

I know there was reshoots but I'm still baffled as to how they spent so much making this movie. Given the actors, shooting locations, questionable CGI, it looks a $40/50 million movie at best.

Given Larry Fong was hired I was looking forward to seeing his influence yet compared to his other work there was no evidence he was behind a camera.

They acepted a script that was trash, they saw it in the testscreens when it was late, so they tried to safe something via reshoots, and enden may be worse.
So for me the main problem is why the hell they go ahed with that shitty script, the excuse of the daylight cgi is also that, an excuse