But unless there is an ulterior motive (toy sales, getting someone involved in your favor bank, etc.), you don't stay in a franchise that makes you a couple bucks here and there. Both Hellboy films both made a small profit once after-theatrical was added up. The film did fine on DVD and Blu Ray, but its worldwide gross ($160m) was not quite twice its production budget. Hellboy II: The Golden Army dropped 71% in its second weekend, never quite recovering from Chris Nolan's pop-culture atom bomb, and eventually crawled to $75m domestic, a truly ghastly 2.1x weekend-to-final multiplier. I'm speaking of course of the release of Space Chimps. A $35.9m opening says that it worked, but even terrific reviews couldn't stop what came next weekend. To Universal's credit, they mounted a full-throated marketing campaign, with somewhat groundbreaking NBC tie-ins that attempted to reintroduce the character to casual audiences and emphasized his big-hearted heroism. The studio picked up the Hellboy franchise after Revolution Pictures went bankrupt and combined it with Wanted, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and Mama Mia!, I mean The Incredible Hulk, and produced the $85 million sequel for a Jrelease date. But by all rights the cinematic adventures of Ron Perlman as Hellboy should have been a one-and-done affair.Ĭomcast Corp.) wanted a four-film "package" of high concept action pictures for the summer of 2008. It was quickly overshadowed by an uncommonly robust April ( Kill Bill Volume 2, Man on Fire, Mean Girls, etc.). The film had a strong DVD following, including an insanely feature-packed "Director's Cut" release at the end of the year. On a $66m budget, Hellboy had earned just $99m worldwide, not even double the budget. The picture earned just $59m domestic, a relative poor (especially in 2004) 2.55x weekend-to-final multiplier and only earned $39m overseas. The picture, based on Mike Mignola's cult comic book, opened with a solid $23.1 million, but was unable to parlay decent reviews and relative fan-satisfaction into long-term interest. Infrequent profanity includes "crap,'" "hell," and "goddamn.Hellboy, produced by Revolution Pictures and distributed by Cigar smoking occurs throughout, and there's some product placement. One character is stabbed to death repeatedly. This same character is shown as a child being bullied she is hit with rocks and taunted before she's knocked to the ground and uses her superpower to get revenge. The inability of one of the characters to control her powers causes the off-screen death of innocents, which might frighten even the most mature of audiences.
Several characters (including one major character) die violent deaths. A scary character is addicted to self-surgery, while one of the creatures summoned by the Nazis is a hell-hound that will frighten younger audiences. There's a great deal of violence in the fight scenes, which are at times bloody, and characters must wrestle with the deadly consequences of their actions.
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The movie contains frightening images, a dark and at times macabre tone, and the sad death of a central character. Parents need to know that Hellboy is a 2004 superhero movie in which the titular character must do battle against a demonic force that has reemerged.
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