The Chronicles of Riddick

So, Pitch Black came and went in theaters to a very mild reaction, but it blew up on DVD enough so that Universal decided to get David Twohy over a hundred million dollars to make a follow up to his $23 million budgeted thriller. Faced with the kind of money that went to making an individual entry in The Lord of the Rings film, he and Vin Diesel had little idea of how to use that kind of money. They came up with a trilogy of movies, smartly moving beyond the small film idea of the first, but...