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[25] [151] RoboCop was a popular rental, peaking at number one in mid-March 1988. [155] [156] Rental demand outstripped supply; estimates suggested that there was one VHS copy of a film per 100 households, making it difficult to find new releases such as Dirty Dancing, Predator and Platoon. The longest waiting list was for RoboCop. [157]
RoboCop is an American cyberpunk action media franchise featuring the futuristic adventures of Alex Murphy, a Detroit, Michigan police officer, who is fatally wounded in the line of duty and transformed into a powerful cyborg, brand-named RoboCop, at the behest of a powerful mega-corporation, Omni Consumer Products.
The principal characters were cast from March to July 2012. Principal photography began in September 2012 in Toronto [10] and Vancouver in Canada, [11] with additional locations in Hamilton, in Canada, and Detroit in the United States. RoboCop released in the United States on February 12, 2014, by Sony Pictures Releasing.
RoboCop reappears in a 2003 reboot video game adaption of the original RoboCop film. RoboCop is parodied in the shooter game Broforce as a playable character known as Brobocop. His weapon is a blaster that can fire rapid bullets if the attack button is held on for long enough.
Peter Francis Weller [1] (born June 24, 1947) is an American actor and television director.. He has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including RoboCop (1987) and its sequel RoboCop 2 (1990), in which he played the titular character; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984); and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). [2]
Patricia Charbonneau (born April 19, 1959) is an American actress, [1] perhaps best known for playing the part of Cay Rivvers in Desert Hearts (1985), her first film role, for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
While RoboCop was initially an American property, Orion Pictures received a $500,000 cash infusion for TV licensing rights by Canada's Skyvision Entertainment in May 1993. . Orion Pictures had originally planned to make a fourth RoboCop film, but decided to license a television series instead due to the bankruptcy of the studio and the negative reception to RoboCop 3 (1993).
RoboCop: Prime Directives is a Canadian cyberpunk TV miniseries released in 2001. It is a spin-off from the RoboCop franchise . [ 3 ] The series, created by Fireworks Entertainment , consists of four feature-length episodes: Dark Justice , Meltdown , Resurrection and Crash and Burn .