Not sure if anyone else cares, but I'm a big fan of the Riddick franchise.

So apparently Diesel and the director of the Riddick movies had been saying if Riddick performed well enough at the box office that they were planning on another two sequels to give the series a legitimate, final conclusion so as not to leave it open-ended.

Now, Diesel actually revived the franchise with a lot of his own money after a pretty big let down from the Chronicles movie (Budget was 105m, the movie only grossed a total 115m). You can go look that up yourself, though. Pretty interesting to read about an actor who enjoys a role so much.

So after finally seeing the new movie a few days ago, I went looking around.

The shooting budget for the new film was a very small $38m, miniscule when compared to the monster budget of the Chronicles movie.

However, after a little poking around I found the box office. Domestically, Riddick so far has earned $42m, while in foreign countries, it's earned another $56m.

So, this $38m budget movie ended up grossing nearly $100m worldwide, and that's not even counting the DVD and Blu-Ray sales now that the movie is out. I think I'd call that a pretty big success. So, I'm excited. Just thought I'd share.

Vin Diesel has a habit of doing things himself far better that the supposed experts. He founded a game dev company called Tigon Studios to create games based around Riddick, with the purpose of creating some movie video games that weren't awful. People scoffed at him, and yet the Riddick games were both excellently received by players and critics. He's also written, produced and directed his own films, several of which made it to and were well-received at film festivals like Sundance. He's a pretty damn impressive guy.