It was also the top selling download for its first week on release, according to a press release from Lionsgate Studios. Well, now that the movie has made its way to the home video market, it's apparently cleaning up! According to publishers 2000AD, Dredd (sans the 3D bit) entered the – video charts at number 1 (knocking The Dark Knight Rises off the top spot) and shifting over 650,000 copies, with many stores apparently selling out of their stocks. Hold on a minute you say, this was supposed to be the good news. The reviews were good, but just not enough people made the effort to get to the cinema. Trying to pull itself out from under the shadow of Stallone's 1996 stinker of a movie couldn't have helped either. For the record, I thought the 3D really worked well, especially in the trippy "Slo-Mo" enhanced scenes. There are debates all over the internet as to why it didn't do so well in cinemas - being heavily marketed as Dredd 3D certainly didn't help its cause, since many people may have been put off by the 3D being right up there in the title. The box office takings don't look great - IMDb put it at about $32 million against a budget of $50 million. I was thrilled that I got to interview them both before the film came out and the one question that was on everyone's lips was - "Will we get a sequel?" Garland was excited by the prospect, but realistic about the chances and Karl Urban had an idea of who he'd like to square off against, but at the end of the day, it comes down to the numbers.
Alex Garland's script was spot on and Karl Urban nailed the role in so many ways. I grew up reading Judge Dredd and I loved last year's movie interpretation.
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