8th Place "War Zone" is Punished at the Box Office

This sucks. I still haven't had a chance to watch the film, but I'm sure it's pretty rad. I'm sure as hell I'd enjoy this over something like Fantastic Four.

extremely bad marketing presence for this one. I'm positive though, that the next 2 weeks will triple, possibly quadruple the income of the opening week. They just didn't get the seeds planted in the media as they did with ALL previous Marvel films.

On another note, I JUST finished watching Iron Man. That movie kick ASS!

Back to topic. Again, this wall all a sense of extremely bad marketing, they thought they could pull it off through word of mouth for this one, but with so much bad press surrounding it; from Lexi being nixed, to a PG-13 rating rumor and vast OTHER debacles. It just didn't get off the ground as it should have. 4 Mil is a TERRIBLE opening weekend pull. That could potentially kill a 4th installment of this character for the big screen. HOWEVER, I have to say again, this is going to do MUCH better the 2nd and 3rd weekends, it won't necessarily recover, but it will do much better as it goes along.

Unless it ends up selling very well on DVD we'll never see another Punisher movie.

I also hope this doesn't hurt McKidd's chances at Thor as being "that guy from HBO's Rome" might not look as impressive after this $4 mill opening.

I honestly did not expect it to be this low, this was suprising for me.
Im wondering if the R rating on it had anything to do with it.
I guess its one of those thing you really can't predict cause there are a handful of factors working against the movie.

Hate to say "i told you so" cause i would've loved to be wrong on this but... of all the Marvel characters to put on the big screen, Punisher is not a "non-fan" favorite. They should've concentrated on something else. This movie should be an indication NOT to make the Jonah Hex movie. Punisher is not going up into the box office top three anytime in the near future. It's just sad to see so many people "connect" with Rambo but not with Frank.

I'm so tired of everyone saying The 2004 Punisher wasn't good I loved it I thought it was awesome and Thomas Jane was a great Punisher...

I did like the 1st Punisher, but John Travolta Characters could have been better. It was just missing that something.

like i have been telling everyone THOMAS JANE WAS THE PERFECT PUNISHER not da big of a shock dat this movie was not gonna get as much money as the 2004 Punisher if u decide to remake any of ur movies marvel redo some of the spiderman movies the punisher was good the way it was if you decide to make a sequel for the punisher please use thomas jane and stick with the old story

when i went to the theater last sunday there was only 5 people total. it was sad. but the problem was indeed advertisement on this movie. when i mentioned at my job to my friends that a new punisher was coming out they were like "WHAT??? THERE'S A NEW MOVIE COMING OUT??? WHEN???" so i knew this was bad....

by the way i really liked the movie

This movie was awesome, and the only reason that it failed at the box office was because of the timing of it's release.

Like grif said, Dark knight came out on DVD, taking money from ticket sales, Transporter 3 came out (which also kicked ass), and so many other things, not to mention the recession. had this movie come out about a week or two earlier it would have killed (in a good way) at the box office.

What??? Everybody agrees or something? No arguments... no sign of life??? What am i, castaway??? But my damn volleyball won't talk back to me!!!

Lovely...

Funny how, when i say to everyone i know, that there's a new punisher movie, they all say "well i'm not gonna go see that vin diesel kiddy movie crap again!" They don't even know about Frank Castle!!! He is not a character that grabs the attention of a big enough audience. He's just a gun totin' vigilante. Spawn did way better at the box office than the punisher movies because there was more to offer than just "shoot em'up" action. There were cool visual special effects and an emotional story attached to the action. The fans hated the Spawn movie but the general audience didn't mind paying twice to see it where as they don't want to pay even "once" for the punisher.

People in general DO want the wussy story that fuels the anger for the action, it gives it purpose. During Warzone, they would've had to tell each other "Why is he doing this again? Oh yeah, remember the previous one with John Travolta, he killed Frank's family? Yeah but isn't he dead already? Well yeah but he's continuing his punishment because of the corrupt justice system and the fact that he forever morns his family's death. Oh, there you go, see? He's breaking down at the sight of his family's grave. Oh i get it now, yeah..." And you know i'm right on this because the 2004 punisher movie did way better than this one. The ones that saw the movie connected a bit more to the character because they saw what was done to his family first hand and how it affected Frank. But there wasn't enough budget to make it a spectacular experience worth seeing twice.

No matter how much publicity you give to punisher, the audience will pick Spawn or The Crow over punisher any day of the year because there is MORE to those characters than just a guy with an arsenal and a tear in his eye! Even i, am a fan of the punisher but i don't let that get in the way of logical understanding. I can bitch and say "why doesn't punisher get a decent box office movie?" but the truth is he got three decent movies. All of them were decent adaptations of him in their own way. What he CAN'T get no matter how hard they try, is decent box office numbers because there will never be enough people to go see his movies to actually do the character justice.