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Warcraft movie NA mediocre sales opening day.
filmoret
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Guess I'll report this before anyone else gets it. The Warcraft NA launch isn't going too good. So far there have been no sellouts in any cinema. I'm thinking it is a below average first day for NA sales.
Are you onto something or just on something?
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http://massivelyop.com/2016/06/09/the-warcraft-movie-is-going-gangbusters-in-china/
http://massivelyop.com/2016/06/07/warcraft-movie-premieres-in-the-us-racks-up-huge-ticket-pre-sales/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4195&p=.htm
(And I strongly suspect that sumdumguy1 was talking about queues in the US and not China!)
What would solve it would be if someone have the actual salesnumbers instead of wide estimates, neither you nor OP have provided any proof in any direction about NA. Then there is Europe, South Korea and other places where the Ip is popular to take into account as well.
The distributors provide the numbers. Disney even corrected one of their last years numbers last week - so they keep it accurate as well.
The site is owned by IMDb which in turn is owned by Amazon.
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And anyone who has looked at the Chinese box office chart might have seen a film called Mermaid sitting on top (huge). I have only seen the trailer but its by the same guy who did Kung Fu Hustle. And if you haven't seen KFH it is well worth tracking down (was released in the US but back in 2004 - unlike Robert E Howard's Solomon Kane (got a limited run eventually) another good film.
Now if Solomon Kane was a human warrior in WoW ......
This was as of noon. Far from failing. It is not huge or anything, but that doesn't really matter. China killed it with this movie so there is very likely going to be a sequel.
A lot of great movies had shitty first day sales though, ultimately it depends on how it continues to perform. Not that this is a crappy first day of sales, all things considered they did pretty well.
It would probably have better sales too if it wasn't for people letting critics decide for them if they like a movie. Movie critics are worse then game critics. Just look at Rotten Tomatoes and Meta Critic user scores....the contrast is hilarious. People obviously dig the movie. It is just not for people who don't know anything about Warcraft. It is pretty clear that it is a movie for the fans. As someone who saw the movie, and is a fan (not playing WoW atm though, only check out expansions) of the franchise; I greatly enjoyed it. It wasn't an amazing movie, but it had exactly what I wanted in it.
Hopefully once the word gets around that it is actually a pretty good movie (friends telling friends ect) it will get bigger.
But then again, China also "saved" the Transformers and Ninja Turtles franchise too, so maybe I shouldn't be thanking anyone.
If they ever make a sequel (which is still unlikely), I suggest them to do it only for the China. That's the only country on this planet that still gives a damn about Warcraft IP. We in the West have already moved on with better movies, way better MMORPGs, and so on..
Warcraft has a chance to get a sequel, but not a big one. They need to make 540mil first to break even. That means China alone will have to drive the sales way beyond 200mil if that is ever going to happen.
And if a sequel does happen, then what? Budget of 200mil? All video game movies that got a sequel failed miserably, because nobody wanted to watch a sequel anyway. They better end it right there, this will never turn into a movie franchise.
Dat CG, tho'....Pretty amazing, epic stuff. Worth a watch just to see the goooooooorgeous spell effects and the thoroughly impressive animation. But it's not worth the price of a ticket and it seems the rest of 'murica feels the same way.
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But as someone that has played the Warcraft games and even World of Warcraft for some time. Having known the lore the movie really clicked and was a fun watch. Not a great movie by any means and I left with the feeling that they should have broken it up into three movies. It would have given the it enough time to develop and explain alot of the things that never where explained.
I can see why the Critics are saying it is a bad movie. Going in without knowing the lore behind the movie it ends up just being a very poor humans vs monsters movie. But knowing the lore really does carry the movie and feels in alot of the bits that never are explained.
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