Silent Hill Sequel Bombs At Box Office, Producer Promises More Resident Evil Movies

It was a devastating weekend at the Hollywood box office, and analysts said Hurricane Sandy can only be blamed for about 10 percent of the damage. While Open Road Entertainment’s Silent Hill: Revelation performed a lot better than The Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas, especially when figuring in budget; the movie did bomb at theaters with an $8 million opening. That number was off 60 percent when compared to the original Silent Hill’s $20.1 million opening domestic haul six years ago. But given the sequel’s reported $20 million production budget, the movie, which has yet to premiere overseas, should end up making money when all is said and done (even before the lucrative home entertainment and broadcast rights).

[Hellsvacancy]

Thats no surprise it looked awful, judging by the trailer anyway, ill still pirate it one day though

[Acquiescence]

then it should be.

[TheDopeFiend]

Banning somebody for admitting the possibility of pirating a movie, in the future, on a "gaming" site is a tad extreme do you not think?

[The Great Melon]

No, it's just proper pre-crime.

[Mounce]

Well, aren't you just an obvious Judge Dredd type of person.

I AM THE LAW!1!!1

To the topic....

People calling the RE movies a success, to me, is shameful and idiotic. They are Garbage, they destroy the RE series just as much is Capcom is destroying it, the acting is horrible, the funding is shit, the director is incompetent, and before I see anyone who comes and says they like it or "LETZ SEE U DO BETTR" responses, since am sure I'd get a few to defend it righteously..... No, just no. The first film was acceptable, everything else, I brand it those who enjoy it just have horrible taste or are those who can't get enough of a zombie-craze of this generation.

[Reibooi]

it did look pretty bad. The first one was decent. It tried to be a good adaptation of the games and changed just a few to many things to be truly great but it got the world and the messed up things right.

This new one however looked like a cheesy action movie with 3D set in the Silent Hill universe. Best way to put it is that it felt like one of those terrible Resident Evil movies. Cheesy over the top action in what is supposed to be a horror series.

[DeadlyFire]

Well they didn't really spend much money advertising this one. I saw a commercial the day before it came out and was like really? Not one thing before even grabbed my attention towards the movie.

[ritsuka666]

the movie did bomb at theaters with an $8 million opening."

GOOD news.

Promises More Resident Evil Movies"

Terrible news.

[NYC_Gamer]

I couldn't stand the first SH movie.I'll watch SH2 soon as it lands on Netflix.

[rataranian]

"Producer Promises More Resident Evil Movies"

Oh yeah thankyou. *pllllz trigger*

[Cam977]

Afte getting over the film bombing, I cringed when I heard there will be more RE films. They're really desperate, aren't they?

[fossilfern]

Anything that has 3D slapped on at the end normally goes very low on my films to watch! Hope this 3D fad dies off soon enough

[Dark_Overlord]

Me too. I'm actually going to watch SH2 on Monday, but I'm being forced to watch it in 3D (my cinema refuses to show it in 2D), it wouldn't be too bad if the 3D was decent, but my local one uses that really sh*t real3D crap which is horrible.

[Kouzmich]

Actually Dredd 3D is a good movie.

[MasterD919]

Well I gotta say I enjoyed the first Silent Hill and I like Sean Beam, but this new one looks pretty terrible. The 3D marketing campaign also can be blamed for the sour numbers because who wants to be forced to see a 3D movie when it costs almost double the price of a regular ticket.

And the keyword here is...Resident Evil MOVIES...meaning not one, or probably two, but maybe a whole trilogy of films that damn near have no relation to Resident Evil.

I'd rather RE go away for a bit in general. It's like reheating left-overs over and over again and then adding in weird fillers to change it up. Hollywood sucks, pure and simple. When someone gets a hold of a franchise, it should be examined very carefully before they get the keys to the whole franchise....otherwise this tends to happen. Uwe Boll is smiling somewhere.

[SleazyChimp]

I can't believe that last RE movie made 217 million at the box office. No wonder they keep making that garbage, if they spent 50 mill making the movie they still cleaned up. I'm just stunned that people actually pay money to watch that shit at the theater.

[whoyouwit04]

different strokes for different folks I guess, but I do have to say I loved all Re movies except the last one, I really was confused Wesker went from trying kill Alice to helping her, the people on the ship weren't even on the movie, nor were Claire and Chris.

[Pozzle]

At this point, they should just make Wesker the main character in the movies and have him try to stop the zombie outbreak by himself. I'd watch it for the hilarity alone.

[DeadlyFire]

Well RE could do alot better if it wasn't Alice in Resident Evil Land. Which is pretty much what I see as the story behind the movies.

[ipe]

last re was garbage but i enjoyed 3d effects a lot in cinema.
Actually it was made only with 3d in mind, its just like slapped scene after scene.

Will watch silent hill when it premiers in europe.

[DEATHxTHExKIDx]

I dont mind there just fun to watch imo. I wish more video games movies got made like Halo, God of war and assassins creed. They always talk about them but, they never happen or at least haven't yet.