HELLBOY Gets Destroyed At the Box Office, Suffers From 97% Drop On Friday

HELLBOY Gets Destroyed At the Box Office, Suffers From 97% Drop On Friday

While Avengers: Endgame was a huge winner this weekend, others did not fare quite as well. Nearly all of the momentum for Hellboy is now gone because of the momentous team-up.

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By Dragonsfoe - Apr 29, 2019 12:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Hellboy
Source: Box Office Mojo
When it comes to box office winners this weekend, there's one movie that's dominating all the coverage - Avengers: Endgame. With an estimated 350+ million opening weekend in guaranteed, Endgame is burying all other current April releases under its looming presence. But if there's one movie that's feeling these effects the most, it's David Harbour's Hellboy.
 
The comic book movie dropped 97% from last Friday, not only garnering one of the largest weekens drops in film history, but one of the lowest 3rd weekends for a wide release. The film lost 2/3 of it's venues for the MCU flick and plummeted 91% for the weekend, only grossing a shocking $350,000.
 
Still holding a whopping 900 venues nationwide, it seems as though Hellboy is the biggest victim from this weekends tidalwave. This likely does not fare well for a sequel. A cancellation of this iteration of the character is a forgone conclusion at this point. 
 
To be fair, a release date this dangerously close to Endgame always destined Hellboy for a result like this, or in other words - it was inevitable.
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TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 4/29/2019, 1:45 AM
They buried this movie and I have no idea why. A week after another (better) superhero movie and two weeks before THE superhero movie? Why? When January and February were pretty wide open. Tax write off? They never gave the movie a chance.
trolliverQueen
trolliverQueen - 4/29/2019, 1:48 AM
I blame it on the soy latte.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 4/29/2019, 1:51 AM
Lol
dracula
dracula - 4/29/2019, 1:51 AM
Not surprising
my reaction when I saw the trailer
Gose
Gose - 4/29/2019, 2:09 AM
And the movie makers keep saying they're better than the comic books guys.
RodPilgrim
RodPilgrim - 4/29/2019, 8:26 PM
@Gose - wait, what?? really? where did they say that? XD
Gose
Gose - 4/29/2019, 9:49 PM
@RodPilgrim - Long long time ago in a galaxy far far away ...... which is the exact reason movie makers keep changing comic book guys ideas.
Liverpool4life
Liverpool4life - 4/29/2019, 2:28 AM
A lightly promoted Christian faith based film has even crushed it at the box office.
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 4/29/2019, 5:58 AM
@Liverpool4life - well, probably because faith-based movies put a lot of devotees in the seats, they even buy complete screeenings sometimes.
Saga
Saga - 4/29/2019, 2:38 AM
Maybe Marvel could buy the film rights to Hellboy and put him in the MCU. Mignola is a confirmed hack sell-out so it could happen, imagine Hellboy vs Ghost Rider or Hellboy's appointment with Doctor Strange.
RodPilgrim
RodPilgrim - 4/29/2019, 8:28 PM
@Saga - actually that would be really cool
GhostDog
GhostDog - 4/29/2019, 3:05 AM
Wow...what a dumpster fire
TheOverseer
TheOverseer - 4/29/2019, 3:36 AM
Pretty sure that Harbour didn't make things easier talking smack about Endgame. Also read this guy is a behind the scenes diva ala Norton who forced rewrites in the movie. If true, he deserves it.
EskimoJ
EskimoJ - 4/29/2019, 6:15 AM
@TheOverseer - What'd he say? All I could find were some joking comments he made about Hellboy beating Thanos "one on one" and hyping his movie over the "50% Avengers".
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 4/29/2019, 9:11 AM
@TheOverseer - Well, he's been cast in Black Widow, so I doubt he'll keep bad-mouthing them for long.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 4/29/2019, 4:20 AM
Oh snap.
Floke
Floke - 4/29/2019, 9:28 AM
Fun thing to try:

Google "Thanos"

Click on the gauntlet.

Neato 🙂
Tufasrox
Tufasrox - 4/29/2019, 10:19 AM
Wonder if Ron Pearlman and Guillermo Del Toro are smirking..
LeonNova
LeonNova - 4/29/2019, 11:07 AM
Bring Del Toro and Goldman back for Hellboy 3 and put it on Netflix.
bigdannymac
bigdannymac - 4/29/2019, 11:50 AM
"Nearly all of the momentum for Hellboy is now gone because of the momentous team-up"

.. um ..

*Raises hand*

What momentum?
AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 4/29/2019, 12:28 PM
RodPilgrim
RodPilgrim - 4/29/2019, 8:34 PM
it's really sad, because i loved the look of this, and Hellboy is really REALLY good, the comicbook is amazing (very "del toro-esque"), the right thing to do, was to let Del Toro finish his trilogy because is so much his style, it's like giving Taika Waititi a sci-fi movie instead of Neill Blomkamp: yes, it could be really great, but the later is the perfect choice...hope someone reboot Hellboy in a few years with a great director like Del Toro
Saroan7
Saroan7 - 4/29/2019, 10:20 PM
I knew this was going to happen. Its like the production didn't care. Release in October or January...

Those Guillermo DelToro shills ruined Hellboy as a movie...Ron Perlman should have given a proper blessing and DelToro should have agreed to produced and help direct the movie.

The 50 million budget was enough for Hellboy 3, and this movie didn't need Ben Daimio and Professor Bruttonholm...it only needed Hellboy and to some extent Alice Monaghan.

It should have been called Hellboy Rise of the Blood Queen. Then Mignola took that away because his excuse was that it would have confused people into thinking the movie was a sequel... At this point in the life of the Hellboy movie, people were already confused wondering if it was a DelToro sequel.

Rated R makes no sense, if creatures are gonna bloody sure, but if humans are getting killed people are not gonna pay to watch it.

Thats why in Infinity War with their Battle Scenes rarely any humans "look like" they are getting killed. Also every "blood" effect is CGI, even effects that SHOULD be practical effects are actually CGI and when ever a character looks Battle Damaged. They are rarely given a scratch to keep the characters As Clean and PG As Possible.

Hellboy is an interesting character because he's a semi professional field agent, but the kicker is that hes a Demon...but wait hes also Half Human from his mother's side.

Sadly the movie and books are called HELLboy and whenever people see Hellboy... They will give the taboo and never give it a chance...

People were never fans of Hellboy to begin with, they are fans of Guillermo DelToro.
Saroan7
Saroan7 - 4/29/2019, 10:25 PM
@Saroan7 -
Also Hellboy has been purposely taken down from theaters because it was doing poorly and because of the word Hell. Movies like Little, Shazam, Captain Marvel, Curse of the La Llrona, Missing Link are still in theaters simply because people are buying tickets. EndGame are having 24/7 screenings and Hellboy took the sharp end.

Guillermo DelToro should have helped Hellboy and whoever was in charge of Hellboy 2019 never bothered to look through the reading material.

I really...really... Hope that Spawn is not suffering the same fate and they pump a poorly acted movie...
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