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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
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.
«
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.
Video game movies are still a dicey proposition, as we saw when
Warcraft tanked in the U.S. earlier this year.
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).
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).
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.