[Movie] Warcraft (June 2016)

[Zulkhan]

Just because one is weirder than the other, it doesn't mean the other isn't weird too.

Still, one honestly looks as little more than a surgical nitpick. The other is blatant, you don't need to point your finger at anything, the whole scene looks bad.

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Damn I love that. It looks so fucking good HM. That is one spiky giant hammer that orc is wielding.

[quras]

That would be the end of the Warcraft movie universe, basically.

I think the movie will struggle to fight off the negative stigma of both videogame movies as the negative WoW stigma.

Not just that but overall big budget high fantasy movies and video game movies are a hard sell. Warcraft is both of those. They have to do a better job in marketing in the coming weeks or that low prediction made above (35K/78K) will be dead on.

Then you add in it's release date around established movies already that have bigger ties to general audiences. That being X-Men: Apocalypse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. Warcraft comes right after those 2 movies and then it get hit with Finding Dory and Independence Day: Resurgence. Then you have it's direct competition with The Conjuring 2, Now You See Me 2. Those wont deal major blows to warcraft but they will pull some watches away.

If warcraft doesn't have a massive opening weekend, I don't see it doing well. X-men and TMNT 2 will still be riding fairly high and I doubt warcraft will wont recover once find Dory comes out.

They really do need to up the marketing and put it together a bit better than they have.

[lonely zergling]

Still 0 booked seats on the midnight premiere after 1 day .

[pateuvasiliu]

Durotan dies in a mak'gora with Gul'Dan instead of being assassinated alongside Draka. Lothar probably kills Blackhand instead of Orgrim.

And we didn't really learn anything from the PAX trailer, it was mostly recycled footage. :P

But if that's all true why would Orgrim go to war with the Alliance in the Second War?

I see no reason for him to start another war once Stormwind goes down.

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ot half the cinema is already booked for warcraft in my town, gonna be full until realese, sweden stronk zugzug

[Deleted]

Still no preorders in the netherlands available. Probably up north there is. But down south it's nothing.

[MCMLXXXII]

Still no preorders in the netherlands available. Probably up north there is. But down south it's nothing.

https://www.vuecinemas.nl/films/film...-the-beginning

You're welcome

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https://www.vuecinemas.nl/films/film...-the-beginning

You're welcome

Release 2 june?

Only 3d showings.

What the fuck is going on in this country.

[MCMLXXXII]

Release 2 june?

Only 3d showings.

What the fuck is going on in this country.

At Pathe they also say a June 2 release.
I don't like 3d either but this movie may be different for me.

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The movie prequel book came out today. Did anyone get it

[AndaliteBandit]

At Pathe they also say a June 2 release.
I don't like 3d either but this movie may be different for me.

It sucks if you wear glasses. Wearing two sets of glasses pretty much ruins my depth perception, making the 3D pointless.

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No new scene except for Lady Taria saying "You'll need this to protect you" and Garona answering "..this?".
Music choice is weird, but in this video the CGI and color grading looks very polished. Durotan talking at the beginning looks much more photorealistic than usual

https://twitter.com/WarcraftIT/statu...31594420887554

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Even that scene isn't new.

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Even that scene isn't new.

Lady Taria saying "You'll need this to protect you" wasn't in previous videos, as far as I remember. I mean the line, not the footage.

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Fair enough.

[Ghâzh]

It's states only. And since US boxoffice counts 2:1 vs the rest of the workd it is the most profitable market typically(for US studios).

Not entirely true. Whilst US gross profit is significantly higher than Asia's, western Europe is basically up to bar with US. Also when the foreign market is significantly bigger than the domestic gross it evens out. And on top of that the marketing costs tend to be lower in the Asian market. All in all it's pretty freaking difficult to predict what's the real profit the studio makes from a movie in the end.

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Does Legendary being owned by a Chinese company make any difference?

[Ghâzh]

Does Legendary being owned by a Chinese company make any difference?

Not really. It's not that the foreign theaters take bigger cut per se but more about the fact that Asian post-theatrical business is non-existent (dvd sales, tv rights, digital distribution). Only thing that could make a small difference, if the company is actually in china, is the fact that you don't lose anything on transferring foreign currency to dollar. Although I have no idea where Legendary is stationed legally, might be neither US or china, so it's hard to say.

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I thought about this some more and I guess it's possible that if Chinese theaters accept Legendary as Chinese movie studio it could mean that they might be able to negotiate slightly higher percentage of profit from the ticket sales. However overall I don't it's such a significant partition that it would make a huge difference.

[Zoaric]

Not really. It's not that the foreign theaters take bigger cut per se but more about the fact that Asian post-theatrical business is non-existent (dvd sales, tv rights, digital distribution). Only thing that could make a small difference, if the company is actually in china, is the fact that you don't lose anything on transferring foreign currency to dollar. Although I have no idea where Legendary is stationed legally, might be neither US or china, so it's hard to say.

As far as I can tell it's still legally a US company, with the Wanda Group as their
parent organization.