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Having opened in twenty territories over the weekend, Duncan Jones» long - developed video
game movie Warcraft: The Beginning (or just Warcraft in North America) has earned around $ 31 million.
Not exact matches
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Okay, perhaps we're being a bit unfair —
Warcraft definitely had its moments, even if it was kind of a mess overall, and The Angry Birds
Movie was a bonafide box office hit — but the fact remains that on the whole, audiences have had very good reason to be skeptical about video
game movies for a very long time.
Warcraft was the most successful video
game movie of all time, and a sequel sounds like it may come together despite a disappointing box office performance in the United States.
Despite the best intentions of everyone involved,
Warcraft failed to break the dreaded video
game movie curse a few months ago.
Like a football match with extra time, this is an episode of two halves: firstly, Oli and Luke's immediate thoughts on
Warcraft — the release that was meant to kickstart the video
game movie craze — and secondly, a spoiler - FULL review of X-Men: Apocalypse.
Warcraft: The Beginning is the third video
game movie released this year and the first one which is acting as a studio tentpole.
Universal and Legendary have officially debuted the first full - length trailer for Duncan Jones» big screen
Warcraft movie, adapting the video
game series created by Blizzard Entertainment.
Here's the poster: Assassin's Creed is one of four
movies released this year based on video
games, following Ratchet & Clank, The Angry Birds
Movie and
Warcraft.
Looking back there has been many popular video
games that have been adapted to the big screen, including Nintendo's classic Super Mario Bros (1993's Super Mario Bros.), Capcom's survival horror Resident Evil (2002 - 2016's Resident Evil series), Blizzard's fantasy strategy
Warcraft (2016's
Warcraft or
Warcraft: The Beginning in international territories), Core Design / Square Enix's action adventure platforming Tomb Raider (2001 - 2018's Tomb Raider films series), Ubisoft's time - traveling action adventures Assassin's Creed (2016's Assassin's Creed), Square Enix's immersive JRPG Final Fantasy (2001, 2005, and 2016's Final Fantasy
movies), and many others.
Keynote speakers include Baobab Studios executive and «Madagascar»
movies Eric Darnell, who will discuss immersive storytelling in virtual reality; Weta Digital senior visual effects supervisor and four - time Oscar winner Joe Letteri, who will discuss the evolution of visual effects technology and one of his latest projects, «War for the Planet of the Apes»; and «World of
Warcraft»
game designer Rob Pardo, the CEO of Bonfire Studios.
«
Warcraft,» based on the video
game, is easily a contender for the year's worst
movie: an effects - filled fantasy extravaganza that's unattractive, hard to follow and (worst of all) boring.
Jones then comes on stage to share his love for the video
game World of
Warcraft, and is glad that he played the
game before making the
movie because if it were the other way around, he would never get around to making the
movie because the
game is so addictive.
Warcraft wasn't the hit that Legendary Pictures hoped it would be, even if it was the most successful video
game movie of all time, so now 20th Century Fox is hoping Assassin's Creed can do the trick.
Universal and Legendary Pictures also has a giant live - action video
game movie coming next year with Duncan Jones»
Warcraft movie, which could end - up being the next Middle - Earth franchise if handled properly.
They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video
game adaptation
Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official
movie that kicks off Universal's classic
movie monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.
According to Legendary Pictures producer Thomas Tull, the
Warcraft movie is not just for fans of the
game.
Video
game movies are still a dicey proposition, as we saw when
Warcraft tanked in the U.S. earlier this year.
Legendary has debuted the first official TV spot for the upcoming
Warcraft movie (even though we already posted an international TV spot previously) based on the World of
Warcraft games.
Warcraft by Hope Madden Video
game movies rarely if ever work.
Depending on how you look at it, the original Rampage gaming property's lack of plot gives the
movie version an advantage / disadvantage over past adaptations of video
game franchises with denser mythologies (a la
Warcraft and Assassin's Creed).
On the other hand, mythology - rich
games like «
Warcraft» suffer when adapted into
movies, too.
After all, I've heard «World of
Warcraft» is one of the more story / character - focused video
games, and there's no reason we can't make good
movies from popular IPs (The Lego
Movie worked).
However, the
movie has gotten Blizzard thinking about older
Warcraft games — and how they could bring them back.
After a BlizzCon
Warcraft movie panel in which, among other things, Blizzard lore maestro Chris Metzen described the film as kind of an ideal realization of stories told in / around
Warcraft I (the strategy
game from ye olde 1990s), I caught up with him to find out if the
movie's feeding back into World of
Warcraft at all.
For a while, it even seemed that there wouldn't be a
Warcraft movie at all, falling prey to the same demons that pull
games down into the vaporware abyss.
We discuss issues with World of
Warcraft and Diablo 3, BitBash Chicago, card
games that aren't Cards Against Humanity, the Borderlands
movie and feeling left out of fighting
games.
However, with the likes of Ratchet and Clank as well as
Warcraft waiting in the wings to wow audiences, it appears that
movie producers are still decidedly keeping their fingers in the
game industry pie.
Activision - Blizzard, whose other franchises include the immensely popular «Guitar Hero» and «World of
Warcraft,» wants to beat previous sales records set by video
games such as «Grand Theft Auto» and blockbuster
movies such as «Dark Knight.»
Warcraft, the
movie based on Blizzard's widely - popular World of
Warcraft video
game has just released a score of its music for our listening pleasure on YouTube.
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The RTS and Dungeon - Crawler genres, and LAN (local area network) multiplayer grew in worldwide popularity after the releases of StarCraft,
WarCraft and Diablo; the MMO spin - off of Blizzard's fantasy RTS series, World of WarCraft is one of the most successful MMO titles ever released, spawning a multitude of expansions, its own spin - off card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and the recent movie of the same name - «Warcraft
WarCraft and Diablo; the MMO spin - off of Blizzard's fantasy RTS series, World of
WarCraft is one of the most successful MMO titles ever released, spawning a multitude of expansions, its own spin - off card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and the recent movie of the same name - «Warcraft
WarCraft is one of the most successful MMO titles ever released, spawning a multitude of expansions, its own spin - off card
game Hearthstone: Heroes of
Warcraft, and the recent movie of the same name - «Warcraft
Warcraft, and the recent
movie of the same name - «
WarcraftWarcraft».
I chose
Warcraft — The Beginning, the
movie based on the
game, partly because I had not seen it (and it was too early in the day for the gore of Mad Max Fury Road) and partly because I knew there would be lots of fighting, colour, movement, and action to test the Soundbar.