HELLBOY Bombs With A Dismal $12 Million Opening Weekend; SHAZAM! Holds No. 1 Spot With $25M

HELLBOY Bombs With A Dismal $12 Million Opening Weekend; SHAZAM! Holds No. 1 Spot With $25M

As expected after those scathing reviews, Lionsgate's Hellboy reboot failed to make any sort of impact at the US box office this weekend, taking in just $12 million. Shazam!, meanwhile, is holding strong.

By MarkCassidy - Apr 14, 2019 08:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Hellboy
Lionsgate and director Neil Marshall's Hellboy failed to get off the starting blocks this weekend, taking in a paltry $12 million at the domestic box office.

The R-rated reboot was pretty much torn to shreds by critics (see below) and earned a dreaded C CinemaScore from audiences, which no doubt contributed to the movie's disappointing performance. Though some seem to feel that Hellboy isn't quite as bad as the critical consensus suggests, we can probably write this one off as a major misstep and a wasted opportunity to relaunch a franchise.

Better news for Warner Bros., as David F. Sandberg's Shazam! easily maintained its hold on the No. 1 spot with $25.1 million. Its 10-day domestic total now sits at $94.9 million.

Tell us, have you seen Hellboy? Do you intend to? Drop us a comment down below, and check out some of the reviews. They're not all bad!



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i09:

Like two great tastes that somehow don’t go well together, Hellboy’s greatest sin is that it makes you long for the film that it might have been because there’s so much about the movie that works in a vacuum. David Harbour absolutely nails the charming, lunk-ish aspects of Hellboy’s personality, and a handful of the film’s action sequences are legitimately fun to watch before you get back to the slog of the rest of the film.

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WGTC:

Hellboy feels editorially chopped to bits, tonally disjointed and created from clashing perspectives that make for the type of "dark, gritty" reboot that misunderstands why certain "dark, gritty" reboots end up working.

BMD:

There are three sequel hooks stapled to the end of this thing, yet somehow it earns none of them. I don't even know how that's possible! Hellboy is some very ill-advised cinema, and those who enjoy the prospect of cinematic trainwrecks are likely to get some joy out of this. Everyone else... well, you all know where to find the better version.

Hitfix:

I spent almost Hellboy‘s entire run time either recoiling in horror or howling with laughter. Like Hellboy‘s climax, the subtext of which is essentially the protagonist heroically screaming “Yuck, girls!” it was perfectly true to the spirit of an extended adolescent metalhead fantasy. I think this is how Hellboy was always meant to be.

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Den of Geek:

A soulless, noisy mess of a movie that has far more in common with lesser Underworld or Resident Evil sequels than it does with the work of Guillermo del Toro or Mike Mignola.

The Wrap:

Neil Marshall’s “Hellboy” is a wellspring of creativity, a major superhero movie made for hardcore R-rated horror fans, overflowing with humor and action and scares. It’s ambitious and low-key at the same time, knowing full well that its target audience isn’t the mainstream blockbuster demographic that demands structure or even sanity.

Rendy Reviews:

If you’ve seen one movie from production company Millennium Films, then chances are you’ve seen them all. With features such as The Hitman’s Bodyguard, The Mechanic: Resurrection and London Has Fallen, this testosterone-led studio prides itself in bloody action but stays in the realm of mediocrity because of either a weak script, terrible editing, or cheap visual effects. Hellboy, unfortunately, nails all three!

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/Film:

In a word, Hellboy is unpleasant. Other appropriate adjectives to describe this reboot include dreadful, obnoxious, unnecessary, and interminable. Considering the shadow cast by the two Hellboy films written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, it might be easy to presume that this new version simply pales in comparison. Though that’s true, let’s not belabor the point: this Hellboy is quite bad all on its own. There’s no need to compare this to del Toro’s films, because to do so would just inspire pain.

Time Out:

Guillermo del Toro’s original two Hellboy films (from 2004 and 2008) gave us a lovable outsider with a big heart, a bigger fist and a penchant for cats and cigars, but only the fist survives this horrible redo from director Neil Marshall. Where the Mexican filmmaker brought loads of charm, wit and intricate monster designs, his Brit counterpart delivers gore, gristle and a heap of beasties straight from CGI hell. It’s two hours long but feels like an eternity, lurching incoherently from one noisy set-piece to another.

Screen Rant:

The movie has its merits, and the fantasy spectacle may be worth seeing on a big screen, but it's a middle of the road fantasy-action film; it's not bad enough to be so-bad-it's-good and not good enough to be widely appealing. Instead, Hellboy seems bound to be a misfire that quickly gets overshadowed by bigger blockbusters arriving in the coming weeks.

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WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 4/14/2019, 8:41 AM
Give Shazam 2 an August release and advertise it.
Captain Marvel's legs are about to get even more marvelous cause
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 4/14/2019, 8:42 AM
@WakandanQueen - Enough to surpass Aquaman I hope.
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 4/14/2019, 8:46 AM
@MCUKnight11 - I don't think it will.
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 4/14/2019, 8:50 AM
@MCUKnight11 - Nah she won't catch the fish, but there's a good chance she sneaks up on Diana.
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 4/14/2019, 9:08 AM
@MCUKnight11 - Captain Marvel will be more profitable than Aquaman tho so there's that.
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 4/14/2019, 8:41 AM
Good thing David Harbour has got BW next year. Also, Shazam is a very good movie.
DoubleD
DoubleD - 4/14/2019, 8:45 AM
And Week 6 Captain Marvel still going strong domestic at 6th place. I think pretty much done foreign. Should hit 400 next weekend.

Domestic $386,536,581

Foreign $678,000,000

Worldwide $1,064,536,581
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 4/14/2019, 8:48 AM
@DoubleD - It will hit $400M during Endgame's opening weekend.
bropous
bropous - 4/14/2019, 8:52 AM
@DoubleD - Oh, bullshit, man. Captain Marvel was shit, Brie Larson killed its chances at the box office, no one wants to watch that movie because of her SJW garbage, she hates white men, no one will spend any money to see the movie and it will tank down to the bottom and will never, ever make back the money that Marvel Studios spent to make it. No one cares about that character, anyways.

Uh, huh.

My big sister went to see it yesterday. She is as conservative as I am. She knows very, very little about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And she LOVED IT. She just kept rattling off to me on the phone about this plot point and that plot point, not always with the correct verbiage (the green guys with the pointy ears? And the guy with the perfect teeth who kept fighting with the girl? And Samuel L. Jackson's character was great. I did not like the part where the cat scratched his eye out...).

Captain Marvel is a masterwork. And it leads in SO PERFECTLY to Endgame.

Finally. A GOOD MOVIE will knock Avatar off its ill-deserved first place slot.
bropous
bropous - 4/14/2019, 8:55 AM
@DoubleD - Challenge of the week: Explain to a woman who has been teaching English since 1971 the concept of a pocket dimension lurking inside of a Flerkin in 25 words or less.
PantherKing
PantherKing - 4/14/2019, 8:58 AM
@DoubleD - Captain Marvel should be passing Guardians 2 domestic total this week.
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