Do you think a Venture Bros Movie would Do Well

[Darth_Zilla]

According to adult swim it was one of there highest rated programs.To you think a feature movie would be able to make money for adult swim.

[Lightning Tiger]

"Venture Bros: the return of Phantom Limb" would make for an awesome movie.

[tb4000]

I'm sure it would make money, but it would have to be an extremely hard PG-13 or rated R to be faithful to the show. It ain't a merchandising blitz like Spongebob or even South Park to be honest, so it still does have only a select audience.

[maczero]

Unfortunately, strong tv ratings and a rabidly loyal fan base don't always equal success in the theaters.

I'd say ATHF's box office earnings would be indicator of how well a VB movie would do.

[Charlie]

If it forgoes the theater and is pushed strait to dvd, maybe.

[johnny139]

I'd say ATHF's box office earnings would be indicator of how well a VB movie would do.

I think it would do better than that, if only by a small amount... a has-been boy adventurer and his badass bodyguard probably have more mass appeal than a cup, a meatball, and a bunch of fries. :sweat:

[CaptainHero]

There's no way a Venture Bros movie would gross more than $4 million at the box office

[Lightning Tiger]

There's no way a Venture Bros movie would gross more than $4 million at the box office

how much would one cost to make?

[Draft]

With fans, hell yes. But it would make less than ATHF Movie for sure. There really isn't a huge demand for animated action comedies that knock off other action comedies. Plus it would have to be a huge ass budget, and [as] wouldn't give up much more than the ATHF Movie (around 800K)

That would be sick though

[Blackstar]

Honestly, I think that releasing a Ventures Brothers movie straight to DVD would be a better idea than releasing it theatrically. The Venture Brothers has a strong enough cult following, but it's not a mainstream hit. It would probably do a little better than the Aqua Teen Hunger Force film did, but I don't see it breaking box office records.

[Mavericker]

According to adult swim it was one of there highest rated programs.To you think a feature movie would be able to make money for adult swim.

Not necessarily-it might not go over well with the non-Adult Swim viewing public.

[Craig Crumpton]

As much as I generally loathe live-action movies made from animated series, I actually wouldn't mind seeing a live-action version of Venture Bros, provided it were a quality production.

And considering similar genre movie spoofs (like Mystery Men, Galaxy Quest, The Specials, Superhero Movie), I believe a Venture Bros movie would actually do decent at the box office. And I certainly think it would fare better than the ATHF movie did.

Hell, the several of the voice actors would be ideal for their live-action counterparts:

- Patrick Warburton could easily pull off a live-action version of Brock.

- Dana Snyder would be fun to watch reprising his role as The Alchemist.

- Stephen Colbert would be @#$%ing PERFECT for Professor Impossible.

- And no one else but Jackson Public should play The Monarch, especially if you've seen him in the full costume on the S1 DVD.

[Added later]

Found this interview (http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/The+Venture+Bros+creator+Christopher+McCulloch/) where Jackson's asked about this very thing:

The Aqua Teen Hunger Force creators have a movie coming out later this year. Would you be interested in doing something like that?

CM:
Absolutely. It’s probably pretty obvious how much I love movies and I’m always trying to make the show more cinematic. We cut about 15 pages of material from every script we write so there are definitely things trying to get out. I want to make feature films in my career but I don’t know whether they would be animated or live action.

In terms of The Venture Bros, I know everything that’s wrong with our show but there’s just no time to fix all of it and you don’t always have the resources. I would love to do the perfect cartoon so if you’ve got a year to make 80 or 90 minutes of animation, we could do something great and it would be fun. I don’t know that I need to make a Venture Bros movie. I’d probably be into it but I would like to see them live action with Patrick as Brock and James Urbaniak as Dr. Venture.
DRE:
Who would play the brothers?
CM:
That’s the hard part.
DRE:
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
CM:
I’d hate to say it but Frankie Muniz would probably be a good Dean Venture.

[Kitschensyngk]

I can't say how it would do financially, but a Venture Bros. movie would rule so hard.

Just as long as it's animated.

[warnerbroman]

Unfortunately, strong tv ratings and a rabidly loyal fan base don't always equal success in the theaters.

I'd say ATHF's box office earnings would be indicator of how well a VB movie would do. that because the animation sicked and had no real plot and between that was too much nonsense

[Racattack!Force]

that because the animation sicked and had no real plot and between that was too much nonsense
Plus, that movie had a limited release.

[R-Taco]

It depends. If they put as much money into it as a "normal" theatrical animated movie, it'd bomb for sure. However, as the ATHF movie shows, using a low budget (perhaps slightly bigger than that of the rest of the series) would dramatically improve it's chances of being a moneymaker.

[Mavericker]

Plus, that movie had a limited release.

Most people haven't heard of ATHF. They make a joke of this when they made those ads with Dana Snyder trying to tell people about the ATHF movie.

[Blackstar]

Most people haven't heard of ATHF. They make a joke of this when they made those ads with Dana Snyder trying to tell people about the ATHF movie.

You do know that those ads were most likely rehearsed and that the people were probably paid to say that they've never heard of ATHF, right?

ATHF is popular, but not phenonemonally popular. It's mostly unknown to people who aren't regular viewers of [adult swim]. The ads were just making light of that fact.

[Neo Ultra Mike]

Still ATHF did rather well for a limited release. They didn't really want to spend the money on a wider release but if they did I'm sure they would of made a better profit from it. At the very least I feel it could of actually eclipsed the PPG Movie the only other full original movie related to some show that was part of Cartoon Network.

A Venture Brothers movie could defintley be made, have a full on self contained plot, have good animation and a great script full of funny scenes. There's no questino that if Jackson and Doc were given the time and money to make the movie they could deliever. I have no doubt on that. Of course the question is getting the money and time. Venture Brothers at this point isn't even as well known as ATHF and is harder to get into because of the characterizations and plot. Furthermore it'd have to be a much bigger budgeted affair then ATHF's movie and I doubt AS would want to spend a big chunk of budget right now (or maybe ever)on a VB movie. It's also have to be very heavily promoted and talked about for it to even try making a profit back really. And even then I wouldn't see it being a hit: I'd see it being loved and enjoyed by the fans but I don't see it doing well at the box offices. People just aren't into VB like that sadly.

[Silverstar]

^What's been said above.

A Venture Brothers movie could be worth seeing, given the proper amount of time, money and effort, but while VB has a strong enough following amongst the [adult swim] faithful, I don't really think this or any [as] show has a strong enough mainstream fanbase to make a theatrically released movie a major box office success.

[Super Leviathan]

The Problem with ATHF was that it was something that is easily lost on more conventional moviegoers and critics. If you looked at the reviews, most of them homed in on the most obvious things people not into the show would grasp, like the title (which invited comparisons to Borat's) and the Boston Bomb Scare (which had a sizable media presence).

A Venture Brothers movie would have the advantages of a coherent plot, characters that call to mind things moviegoers and critics are likely to be familiar with (namely Johnny Quest and the Hardy Boys), and Patrick Warburton, a fairly big name. So I'd imagine it'd be as or more successful than the ATHF movie.

[Master Moron]

A Venture Brothers movie would have the advantages of a coherent plot, characters that call to mind things moviegoers and critics are likely to be familiar with (namely Johnny Quest and the Hardy Boys), and Patrick Warburton, a fairly big name. So I'd imagine it'd be as or more successful than the ATHF movie.

But Johnny Quest and the Hardy Boys were never that popular. And even if they were, a parody of that genre seems incredibly dated. I mean, you just don't see parodies of shows made more than twenty years ago very often because there's not a big enough audience that remembers them.

[tb4000]

Venture Bros. has the luxury, along with Boondocks of being the two most straightforward comedy shows on AS. They can get abstract with their humor at times, but most average joes mention those two shows regarding some of their favorites....everything else on the network that isn't a previous animated sitcom is like straight avant garde stuff.

[Master Moron]

Venture Bros. has the luxury, along with Boondocks of being the two most straightforward comedy shows on AS. They can get abstract with their humor at times, but most average joes mention those two shows regarding some of their favorites....everything else on the network that isn't a previous animated sitcom is like straight avant garde stuff.

Really? I've never met a Venture Brothers fan in person.

[Mugen]

Really? I've never met a Venture Brothers fan in person.

My college roommate loves the Venture Bros.

[DarthGonzo]

Really? I've never met a Venture Brothers fan in person.

Me neither.

I can't see a Venture Brothers movie making much money, despite how easy it would probably be to turn it into a film.

[maczero]

Really? I've never met a Venture Brothers fan in person.Me neither. I think it depends on your personal circle though. I can imagine college age cats getting into this show but you'll be hard pressed to find anyone past the 35 year old demographic that's even heard of Adult Swim.

Speaking of demographics, does anyone notice that the pop culture references seemed to be geared towards folks who are in the mid 30's to mid 40's?

[Silverstar]

Speaking of demographics, does anyone notice that the pop culture references seemed to be geared towards folks who are in the mid 30's to mid 40's?

That's probably why I get most of them. (I'm 39.)

I'm guessing the reason for that is perhaps because that's how old the creators and writers are; my writing's like that, too. A lot of the stuff we grew up with and grew up watching tends to show up in our work. Basically a pop-culture syndrome side effect of the old "write what you know" idiom.