If you’ve read my review, you know I’m pretty high on the new Hellboy movie. What has me worried is whether or not anyone will see it. With all the hype over The Dark Knight, will moviegoers simply stay out of theaters and save their money for Batman? It’s starting to look like that may be so.
Fandango.com is reporting that ticket pre-sales for The Dark Knight now represent 71% of the total tickets being sold on their site. Second highest sales are for Hellboy II: The Golden Army, but even in second place Hellboy sales only represent a paltry 6% of their total ticket sales. Bear in mind that Hellboy II opens tomorrow and The Dark Knight won’t be anywhere near a movie theater until a full week from now. Hellboy II shouldn’t have to compete with The Dark Knight until next weekend when it opens, yet somehow it is. I feel a little sorry for Guillermo del Toro right now.
Come on people, I get that you’re excited for The Dark Knight, but that doesn’t mean you should ignore anything and everything else so you can sit home and obsess over trailers and practice putting on clown makeup. That’s not healthy. Batman will be here soon enough, until he gets here how about giving love to some other movies, especially if they’re like Hellboy II… and they deserve it.
