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Guillermo Del Toro's HELLBOY II site is live with designs!
Hey folks, Harry here... FInally HELLBOY 2 has a presence online beyond the descriptions of bloggers.... but actual designs that give us a glimpse at the world that Guillermo and Mignola and a team of amazing artists have been working on. My recommendation is to instantly head to the GALLERY area - beautiful work is on display there:
Click Your Stone Finger Here!
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Oops wrong character.
Either way the first film was pretty generic.The comics are so much better,its too bad they had to turn hellboy into another film instead of directly translating the comic to screen,that would of made it much more unique. -
now lemme look
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and Hellboy too!
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I LOVE THAT HELLBOY IS AN UNDERDOG character of sorts in comic book canon but the filmmakers are making him kick Superman's fucking ass into space/depths of Atlantis. THAT GALLERY KICKS ASS. LOVE THE COLLABORATORS WRITING ABOUT THEIR SKETCHES, NEED TO SEE THAT MORE OFTEN STUDIO EXECS!
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Oct 17, 2007 5:12:32 PM CDT
Yes, take a look at the Gallery of Concept Art, here's why:
by pound sand
The "Golden Army Chamber Concept Art," doesn't look a THING like the egg chamber scene in ALIEN. Nope, not at all. Totally different. 'Cause the eggs are, um, Golden. Yeah. And there's no foggy mist. Or John Hurt either.
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I wish Guillermo would discover me
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I remember Hellboy losing money. Could be cool. Just surprised that they would bankroll a sequel to this.
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but has since become a cult hit, with lots of support. Also Del Toro's movie, "Pan's Labyrinth" might have turned some heads.
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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hellboy.htm
Cost=$66m
Gross=$99m + DVD Sales -
Because "Hellboy I" sure as hell didn't.
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66m + Marketing = 75-85 million at least. You can cut the 99 million boxoffice in half as there is a 45-55 split between theaters and film company. Cut more of the take if more than one company was involved in the production and distributon...lets not forget the backend deals for the directors, writers and....yes it was a money loser.
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No small feat. That's a sure fire way to get a sequel greenlit.
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I could listen to his geektech talk for an hour once a week to be sure. I like that he's going back to HB after the success of Pan's. Most director's would think it was beneath them I think and a step backwards which is incorrect. Does anyone else think he would be the perfect director of a live action THE GOON? By the way, I respect all of you.
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I hadn't read any of the comics. I was impressed with the original (except for the lackluster finale) and was doubly impressed by Pan's Labyrinth. I highly recommend the direct to DVD Hellboy cartoons. They are surprisingly high quality. I have even hunted down some of the comics.
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Sorry to say it, because I like everyone involved with that project, but I thought the movie was just pretty dumb. Stupid dialog and boring action scenes.
PAN'S LABYRINTH of course is genius and maybe they created a better story this time. I'll wait for the reviews on this one. Oh wait...all reviews for the first one were good as well. Hmmm.....now I'm confused. -
viva del toro y chachacha
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Uuuuuuuhhhhhhhh....what a cool site and what a neat Abe Sapien video. HE'S SOooo FUCKING ADORABLE.
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the first one was fun like for the first hour but then it strarted to get boring , at the end i didnt care at all for the characters, maybe this one its better.
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I wonder if anyone has written about it on this site.
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i swear to god, one of these reviewers (i think it was Morty, but I'm not sure) said it revolutionized the way comic book movies will be made and that it was the best comic book movie ever. yet HELLBOY was barely more than Spawn quality entertainment.
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Cant wait for this loved the first one!
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Might as well crib from the best.
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really, some losers are never happy. It was a thoroughly fun and competent film
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That fucking bright X-Men lighting was the absolute WRONG way to go and totally did in the feel of the original comics. Half the comics are SHADOWS! You could see everything in the movie. From the looks of it they are going the same route for the second one. The only way to do Hellboy justice is through a stop motion feature.
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... people start dissecting box office returns just to prove their "point" that a movie was bad FOR THEM. Do we really need to repeat for the billionth time that in the grand scheme of things (i.e. movie watching, movie critiqing, movie history) B.O. don't mean shit? Look to BLADE RUNNER for one of many examples. Anyway, no studio would be greenlighting this if the first one didn't make money when all is said and done. And that's the end of you...
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the MPAA is proposing a rule that would make this an automatic R. And Disney would refuse to make this (with their new non-smoking rule). Just showing how rediculous things are getting.
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the filmmakers would say well fuck it then lets go all out and make it a balls to the wall action flick nudefest gorezone to the max!
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Sounds like a winner to me!!!!
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Actually, there IS John Hurt...
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Bring on the sequel!!
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Despite the unmemorable ending (what happened again?) I recall most of the movie quite fondly.
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"Columbia TriStar Home Video's comic book-based "Hellboy" shot to the top of Nielsen VideoScan's First Alert DVD sales chart for the week ending Aug. 1, registering a commanding total of more than a half-million units in sales."
Now we all know that most sales happen in the first week of release....so lets say they sold 3x since then....and again DVD sales aren't all profit so its still not making money.
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Thanks to some slick money transfers that took advantage of the fluctuating exchange rate between the Dollar and the Yen, HB's Box Office in Japan more than made back the production cost of the movie. The rest of the world's revenue was cake. I can't wait to see this movie. I hear they plan to actually use a brand new form of currency to report their earnings called the Hell-Buck. There will be no exchange rate between Hell-Bucks and dollars because of draconian U.S. laws against coining money. In order to change a Hell-Buck to a dollar you have to change it to Canadian dollars and then convert through the mafia's laundered U.S. Sacajawea dollars. They've actually already made a profit on this one so HB3 is a sure thing. Which in my mind makes it an artistic masterpeice sight unseen.
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Oct 17, 2007 8:51:02 PM CDT
The Man Who Laughed And Laughed Returns!
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
Fucking Fuck It!!!!
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check it out
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and surprising to see so much concept art so early in the game. Normally the studios won't allow any of that till the release, or just days before. Del Toro has a great team of artists whom I'd love to work with.
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"The 2004 live-action film grossed $60 million at the box office -- a solid performance, but hardly the blockbuster success that usually inspires an animated television series of its own. Only healthy DVD sales ('Hellboy' doubled its grosses on disc versus its theatrical run) are what granted it at least one more chance at a long and profitable second life."
Did you read that? HELLBOY DOUBLED ITS GROSSES ON DISC VERSUS ITS THEATRICAL RUN. Grammar school math puts the DVD sales for Hellboy at around $120 million. Now give it a rest. -
i don't know why people bitched so much.
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When is Lobster Johnson, who can ONLY be played by Bruce Campbell, going to show up?
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It's strange really. I only liked the first movie; I didn't think it was amazing. Despite that, I really can't wait for this sequel. Pan's Labyrinth was so good that I think del Toro is upped his game considerably.
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So Sony DIDN'T think it was profitable enough to make a sequel. Universal must see something Sony doesn't.
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Oct 18, 2007 2:01:23 AM CDT
grreat site, fantastic art, mind boggles to see them come alive
by pipergates
thats the way to promote a movie. del Toro is taking this beyond anything ive seen in the comics, or in the first film. Mignola is just one part of a team here...and the guy "with eyes like a crazy kid" is in charge.
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Cojonudo.
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I remember that he released the production art for Blade II early on as well. It's nice, because you get to see some cool stuff, but without context it still keeps you guessing as to how it plays in the film. I didn't particularly care for the whole love triangle thing in the first film, but I like Ron Pearlman enough that I'll give anything with him in it a view. He was cool in his short bit in "Enemy at the Gates" - and I think the French "La Cité des Enfants Perdus" (City of Lost Children) must have inspired the game Bioshock on some level.
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Harry, in your own words you and Guillermo are "brothers." Can't you call your bro up and get some info on this flick?
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but I didn't get into the first movie. Del Toro got a lot right (Hellboy's look, Rasputin, Kroenen, Abe, digging up the corpse to use as a guide), but the demon dog, long- tongue things were just too generic and un-Mignola (shoulda stayed with the frogs from the comic) and the humor felt really flat to me. I really hope the second one is better.
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Ex aequo Danny Trejo
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I'm overwhelmed. Keep thinking that "underwater adventures" in any Hellboy/Del Toro movie would be so much fun
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I enjoyed but didn't love "Hellboy," yet "Pan's Labyrinth" floored me. On many levels. It's one of the most powerful, astonishingly well-made films I've ever seen. Therefore I'm excited to see what Del Toro cooks up for "Hellboy II."
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they're making a second film. So the point to this dumbass debate is what exactly? The sequel is happening, so suck it up, SHUT up, and move on.
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That was a good one. Hellboy was alright, but I haven't been compelled to watch it again. Saw Pearlman in Alien Resurrection the other night and was reminded that he is "not the man with whom to fuck"
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Now tell us how much of that made its way back to Sony?
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this movie is gonna ROCK...the movie site is the best site around...i cannot wait for 7-11-08
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I think the only thing I didn't like about the first one is that hellboy fights the same demon, frog-thing about 2 dozen times.
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