Originally posted by Matthew Chmiel
Exactly. And I'd rather watch The Chronicles of Riddick again than say watch these following 2004 gems again:

Alien Vs. Predator
Along Came Polly
Battle Royale II
Clearing, The
Danny Deckchair
Envy
I, Robot
Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The
Open Water
Prince and Me, The
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Shark Tale
Soul Plane
Starsky and Hutch
Stepford Wives, The
Taking Lives
Van Helsing
Wicker Park

Originally posted by fryinpan1
Rental figures for the actioner from Universal Studios Home Entertainment won't be available until next week, but industry sources believe that it is expected to be one of the top 10-best-renting titles for this week.

Originally posted by fryinpan1
Riddick runs with 1.5 mil in day 1 sales

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr..._id=1000722717

The Chronicles of Riddick," starring Vin Diesel, sold about 1.5 million combined DVD and VHS units to consumers during its first day in release Tuesday, according to industry sources, a whopping number for a film that grossed $57.6 million at the domestic boxoffice. Rental figures for the actioner from Universal Studios Home Entertainment won't be available until next week, but industry sources believe that it is expected to be one of the top 10-best-renting titles for this week.

Originally posted by Abob Teff
OK, rented CoR (Unrated) last night. Not sure how it stacks up against the theatrical cut, but it was a decent popcorn flick. Great score, breathtaking visuals . . .

I loved Pitch Black . . . but I don't feel that this fits at all as a sequel. I was thinking more along the lines of CoR is to Pitch Black as Scorpion King is to the Mummy movies. However I think that Michael Corvin was right on target with the Hobbit analogy, except that LOTR still shares the same atmosphere with the Hobbit. Whereas CoR simply uses a few of the same characters (who don't always share the same "character" as in Pitch Black) and some passing references.

After seeing the end I am ambivalent about a second Chronicles of Riddick movie (yes, technically a third 'Riddick' movie, but still just a second 'Chronicles' movie). While Twohy and company did a fantastic job creating this universe, they did a poor job translating it to the movie. Much like the Blair Witch Project, the back story was too detailed to squeeze it in, so you had to look to the external sources (Excape From Butcher Bay video game, Dark Fury cartoon, DVD extras) to get the real meaning.

That said, it would/will be interesting to see

Spoiler:

how the character of Riddick translates into being the Lord Marshal and what actually becomes of the cult-like Necromongers.

Originally posted by SeanValen
I remember Diesel saying, if it was his choice, the movie would be like 3 hours long, now the first cut came in at 3 hours and 15 minutes. It smells of Universal tinkering in, they hand a big hands on approach, probabley not for the best on the threatical version, but with the unrated cut, they had a hands off poilcy, look at what consumers dug.

So I say there's more chance Diesel and Twohy do Riddick 2 their way, Diesel has already mentioned r rated possibilities, and likely more of a senisible lesser budget to work with, balacing character and action, and I think twohy would work great in this type of environment.

I say there's more chance of the sequel being cooler, slicker and better as a film overall, and in a way, Riddick 1 is very triology dependent, until there is a triology, riddick 1 will feel incomplete I say.

Four years after his character Richard B. Riddick last graced the silver screen, and some years after telling reporters that there would be another Riddick film in his future, Vin Diesel told MTV News that he no longer thinks there will one day be a Riddick sequel.

He now thinks there will be two.

“David Twowy right now is writing the scripts. The only question is whether we take a page from the ‘Lord of the Rings’ guys and try to shoot the two chapters at the same time. There are two more in mind,” he said of Riddick, the Furyan warrior first introduced in the 2000 film “Pitch Black.” “‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ was presented as a three part trilogy that would answer ‘Pitch Black’ in the same way that ‘Lord of the Rings’ answered ‘The Hobbit.’”

Those are lofty goals indeed for a movie that was very poorly received when it opened in 2004, and had a mediocre performance at the domestic box-office (where it made just $57 million). Diesel, though, is undaunted, insisting that the long space between sequels has nothing to do with convincing others to get on board, and everything to do with wanting to get it right. (To be fair, “Riddick” performed well overseas, and also spawned a best-selling video game which many considered to be better than the movie.)

“Everyone knows I love the Riddick character and I’m always working on it,” Diesel asserted. “It just takes five years to make another one because David Twohy and I are so precious about it.”

So where will Riddick go next? After taking the throne of the Necromonger King at the end of the last chapter, is there any doubt?

“Sooner or later we all end up in the Underverse,” he said of where we can expect the next chapter to take place, adding in a Riddick-like voice, “Sooner or later.”