I wasn't looking at "omg it'll be big in Korea" so much as wondering whether it would have a bigger shot at being more popular in the US, riding the scifi wave of GotG and TFA.
the film being too late plus lack of Warcraft 3/WoW races is what's gonna hurt this so much here.
the overseas success and huge potential turn around for NA through the attraction of other races is why a sequel is really feasible.
It looks generic as all hell.
Also, it's at least 8 years too late to cash in on the Warcraft name, and just about as late to catch the end of the swords and sorcery fantasy movie wave.
I wasn't looking at "omg it'll be big in Korea" so much as wondering whether it would have a bigger shot at being more popular in the US, riding the scifi wave of GotG and TFA.
With a $160M budget, I think a $450M + WW take would guarantee a sequelI'm pretty positive that Warcraft will get a sequel. It seems like a prime candidate to switch to a Chinese co-production, netting Legendary the ~40% participation that co-production films get there, plus whatever the Wanda theatre chain keeps on top of that.
Even with shit legs, we are probably looking at $250M or so in China. Rest of the world isn't horrible. Pacific Rim did close to $200M overseas outside of China, and from what I can tell, Warcraft is doing better than that in most territories.
$500M worldwide is possible, even if the domestic take is in the $50M range. Warcraft's budget was $160M.
Oh I'm not limiting the debate. Just surprised that was the first thing everyone jumped at. I realized that I didn't post my personal take on it, so I wanted to expand on that.
I feel that a Starcraft film would probably do better in the US domestically, but suffer internationally because of the brand of scifi Starcraft has, especially if they draw from the earlier games instead of the more recent ones. The heavily gungho militaristic type of scifi seems less popular internationally compared to the big adventure space opera ones which are more like space fantasy.
I wasn't looking at "omg it'll be big in Korea" so much as wondering whether it would have a bigger shot at being more popular in the US, riding the scifi wave of GotG and TFA.
The most appealing thing to me about Warcraft is that it cost me $4.39 to get an IMAX 3D ticket on a Friday night
So you know
T-Mobile?
I wonder how that will factor into the weekend box office, and how many people in general are even bothering to claim tickets.
T-Mobile?
I wonder how that will factor into the weekend box office, and how many people in general are even bothering to claim tickets.
Here are the lessons to learn from Ip Man 3
Don't fucking make any more Ip Man movies
Here are the lessons to learn from Ip Man 3
They didn't hire Bronson Lee
fixed
They will count the T-Mobile tickets. Aren't they being redeemed via Fandango?
This isn't much different than when Walmart presold Man of Steel early shows, other than the fact that customers aren't footing the bill unless they want premium formats.
The T-Mobile stuff only works on Fri/Sun
And yeah this seems like something a business will abuse to boost numbers
I'm pretty positive that Warcraft will get a sequel. It seems like a prime candidate to switch to a Chinese co-production, netting Legendary the ~40% participation that co-production films get there, plus whatever the Wanda theatre chain keeps on top of that.
Even with shit legs, we are probably looking at $250M or so in China. Rest of the world isn't horrible. Pacific Rim did close to $200M overseas outside of China, and from what I can tell, Warcraft is doing better than that in most territories.
$500M worldwide is possible, even if the domestic take is in the $50M range. Warcraft's budget was $160M.
Duncan Jones will be too busy working on the next 5 Warcraft sequels to do anything else.
Too bad.
(Yesterday Zootopia was up 30% from last week, even though it came out on video.)
He's working on a small sci fi noir next.
Prolly warcraft sequel after that.
So he's making Starcraft Ghost before Warcraft II?
(Yesterday Zootopia was up 30% from last week, even though it came out on video.)
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Is the Uncharted film ever going to see the light of day? Sony should just scrap that June 30, 2017 release date already.
Did you really expect a brand strongest among young fat lazy teenagers who never leave their homes to have substantial pull in cinemas?
I wasn't looking at "omg it'll be big in Korea" so much as wondering whether it would have a bigger shot at being more popular in the US, riding the scifi wave of GotG and TFA.
Peter Jackson made 9 movies with orcs and elves in the last 15 years.I don't remember any sort "fantasy wave" from the last 15 years other than the "me too" post-Harry Potter years where every fantasy children's book series was getting a movie in some lame attempt at a franchise. Other than that we had the YA Twilight/Hunger Games obsession and the superhero movie boom, but I don't recall any wave that Warcraft could have noticeably benefited from.
Peter Jackson made 9 movies with orcs and elves in the last 15 years.
Peter Jackson made 9 movies with orcs and elves in the last 15 years.
I'm pretty positive that Warcraft will get a sequel. It seems like a prime candidate to switch to a Chinese co-production, netting Legendary the ~40% participation that co-production films get there, plus whatever the Wanda theatre chain keeps on top of that.
Even with shit legs, we are probably looking at $250M or so in China. Rest of the world isn't horrible. Pacific Rim did close to $200M overseas outside of China, and from what I can tell, Warcraft is doing better than that in most territories.
$500M worldwide is possible, even if the domestic take is in the $50M range. Warcraft's budget was $160M.
Yeah, but Legendary is now Chinese owned.500M would put it in best video game movie at the box office of all time. There's a long way to go to get that done I feel...
Also $1 earned in China is not the same as $1 earned in the US, I could be wrong but there's a huge difference in the cut that the movie maker gets.
When boxofficemojo claims "100 made", is that 100 for the studio or one dollar in the cinema before they split their part off?
I don't remember any sort "fantasy wave" from the last 15 years other than the "me too" post-Harry Potter years where every fantasy children's book series was getting a movie in some lame attempt at a franchise. Other than that we had the YA Twilight/Hunger Games obsession and the superhero movie boom, but I don't recall any wave that Warcraft could have noticeably benefited from.
And how much is that on average?I am not 100% sure what you mean, but box office totals on BOM are the amount people spent on tickets.
(Yesterday Zootopia was up 30% from last week, even though it came out on video.)
Wait, Warcraft didn't completely bomb thanks to China?
I really am living in an alternate dimension aren't I?