BOX OFFICE: Vin Diesel's RIDDICK Opens With $900,000 At Late Thursday/Friday Midnight Showings

BOX OFFICE: Vin Diesel's RIDDICK Opens With $900,000 At Late Thursday/Friday Midnight Showings

While some mostly positive reviews and more than a few impressive trailers and TV spots have generated positive buzz around Riddick, the movie (which stars Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff and Dave Bautista) has opened with a fairly unimpressive $900,000 at late showings yesterday.

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By JoshWilding - Sep 06, 2013 08:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Deadline


Deadline reports that Universal's Riddick (the rights of which Vin Diesel cleverly picked up in exchange for making a free cameo appearance in a Fast & Furious movie a few years back) has opened with a fairly unimpressive $900,000 at late Thursday night and Friday midnights showings. While it's still early days, the site believes that it will struggle to reach $20 million in North America this weekend, especially as the character hasn't been seen on the big screen for almost a decade. However, Riddick has the first Fall weekend at the box office all to himself, so the #1 spot is a virtual guarantee either way. Will you be checking the movie out this weekend?





The infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he's encountered. The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty. The first ship to arrive carries a new breed of merc, more lethal and violent, while the second is captained by a man whose pursuit of Riddick is more personal. With time running out and a storm on the horizon that no one could survive, his hunters won't leave the planet without Riddick's head as their trophy.


STARRING:

Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick
Karl Urban as Lord Siberius Vaako
Katee Sackhoff as Dahl
Jordi Mollà as Santana
Nolan Gerard Funk as Luna
Dave Bautista as Diaz
Matt Nable as Boss Johns
Bokeem Woodbine as Moss
Antoinette Kalaj as Shirah
Andreas Apergis as Krone
Neil Napier as Rubio
Alex Branson as Lex Branman

RELEASE DATE: September 6th, 2013.
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third3ye
third3ye - 9/6/2013, 8:24 AM
Ouch, tough summer for Universal, they can't catch a break since Fast 6.
naterator
naterator - 9/6/2013, 8:25 AM
I look forward to seeing this.... but not this weekend.
Lozzy
Lozzy - 9/6/2013, 8:25 AM
Looks like Vin Diesel isn't that big of a box office draw. Marvel should really reconsider having him as a leading role in Phase 3
Humperdink
Humperdink - 9/6/2013, 8:28 AM

I've seen Pitch Black, but I still haven't seen Chronicles of Riddick. Something tells me it was really f*ckin' awesome on the big screen and like Halley's Comet, I missed out on a once-in-a-lifetime event by not seeing it in theaters.


Was a terrible movie.
duncboy
duncboy - 9/6/2013, 8:30 AM
Riddick may not be competing with another big blockbuster, but he's certainly competing with both college and professional football.
StrangerX
StrangerX - 9/6/2013, 8:34 AM
Don't blame Vin for the draw. The problem is marketing, even fans like me forgot this was coming out this weekend. I still want to see it though
Seejay
Seejay - 9/6/2013, 8:36 AM

Bad news for sci-fi fans.
FantasticSpidey
FantasticSpidey - 9/6/2013, 8:37 AM
Honestly its not that surprising is it? I mean the whole Robocop/Dredd/Riddick/Mad Max genre played much better in the 90's and 2000's. Back when people still listened to Disturbed and Nickelback.

Only people who drive pick-up trucks with "Ain't Skeered" vinyls slapped all over them are going to go see these movies.

Mad max could be better given Tom Hardy but people have to have a bad film every now and then and i wouldn't be surprised if Mad Max is his.
JoJo1982
JoJo1982 - 9/6/2013, 8:47 AM
The movie was really good.... I think word of mouth is going really help this movie. Also the fact that it was made for 38 million, even if it make 20-25 this weekend would consider good(well atleast better than Dredd in the Box office)
Tony93
Tony93 - 9/6/2013, 8:47 AM
@Irishyardball

thats exactly what I was thinking.. just couldnt find the words to say it
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 9/6/2013, 8:50 AM
IamnotYou

If you don't give a [frick], you clearly gave enough of a [frick] to comment
Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 9/6/2013, 8:52 AM
What nibs said!
Darlene1974
Darlene1974 - 9/6/2013, 8:53 AM
Reviews / North America ... whatever!!!... the world seem to embrace ur american-made movies more than ur own ungrateful americans, seriously. Just like Pacific Rim and so many other movies too, North America Box Office is shit house. But outside of America, everybody else loves it. And I know I will too!!!!
JoJo1982
JoJo1982 - 9/6/2013, 8:55 AM
Plus does midnight showings even count now? I mean the summer is over with and every is back to school/work/whatever.
Killersloth
Killersloth - 9/6/2013, 8:56 AM
How is nearly a million in one night, in one country bad for a film which only cost 38 million?
FantasticSpidey
FantasticSpidey - 9/6/2013, 9:09 AM
@symbiotics - right so like i said the 2000's when i said 90's I was referring to Robocop and Judge Dredd.

@Tony93 Yeah I just don't think that there is much of a market for these films any more. If there ever was. They were ok films back then to an extent, but they were never going to be a huge "game-changing" franchise. And i don't recall them making that much money.

They don't have the finesse/stylishness of James Bond.

They don't have the character backgrounds/mass appeal of the Marvel films.

They aren't smart/epic like Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy.

They just don't match up and the fact that they are even being made still is based on the sheer lack of imagination of the movie industry right now. Everything is a reboot to try to squeeze the last remaining drops of life from an intellectual property. Or crap like Battleship.
JoJo1982
JoJo1982 - 9/6/2013, 10:33 AM
@jollem

Lol hell there's more than just boobs..... Remember all those women in riddick's chambers
JoJo1982
JoJo1982 - 9/6/2013, 12:17 PM
@Jollem

Riddick did tell her, he was going to go balls deep in her

That part the whole audience was like WTF?!

Then that scene at the end, between them 2
Everyone was laughing
malreyn
malreyn - 9/6/2013, 12:23 PM
I gotta agree. I didn't even know it was having midnight showings. $1m midnight showing on a $38m budget sounds pretty decent to me. Let's see about the rest of the weekend. Personally, I want to see it.

I just don't know if anyone will go with me and I don't wanna see it alone. AWW!!! BOO-HOO! :,(
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 9/6/2013, 2:25 PM
Whatever happened to going to a movie to be entertained?

It's Riddick...

It's not going to be an intellectually challenging movie. It's going to have plot holes. It's going to have more cheese than a box of KD.

Who Cares???

Pitch Black, Chronicles, and Dark Fury were fun, simple as that.
Riddick should be the same, and not expected to be anything more.
AUSSYACE
AUSSYACE - 9/6/2013, 8:24 PM
I thought he put his house on the line just to make this movie...

Surely he's got a bit more cash than having to do that...
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