Again, that Article actually doesn’t substantiate any of it’s claims and seems to be an opinion piece. With things like “which means it may break even down in post-theatrical.” means said person doesn’t know how much said movie made.
Further, one of the other movies mentioned as somehow being better than ‘Warcraft’, Resident Evil generally made MORE than half of it’s money overseas and within China.
(Both of you tried to argue that point, and that someone who’s words are actually substantiated vs your own not being is being disingenuous.)
Many of the other movies mentioned, actually had around the same ratings (Especially ones rated Pg-13 or above, IE not kids movies)
There was no profit from the WoW movie. And gross doesn’t matter if there is no profit, particularly when the cost was so massive.
The Warcraft movie’s costs and losses are well-known and well-described. How can anyone still be making statements like this in 2022?
If it had made $279 million in profit they’d have announced a sequel before its global box office run ended. The Chinese state-owned and state-acting entertainment industry would have been tripping over itself to finance that sequel, as for them this movie was supposed to be a coming out of the Chinese film industry as a global competitor. That’s why they invested their entire film industry into distributing, promoting, and showing it.
But none of that happened. No one points to this movie as an example of any kind of success. Everyone involved slunk away from it.
An opinon piece writer who hasn’t substantiated any of their article and is an opinion piece writer? Yes.
Sure, since that’s the treatment it got from those that wanted ‘more profits’.
There will be, only variable is how long honestly. Move on. :3
There was, actually. More profit than Resident Evil movies made from their America box office gross total.
Depends entirely on how much money they were expecting from it. You’re aware of how such things work? Despite being highly profitable, things get cancelled for various other reasons. See Daredevil series, Punisher, etc.
Yet, it’s still the highest grossing game to movie adaptation ever made. Curious, that.
It made more profit than any singular resident evil movie, flat out.
I dont want any more WoW movies, the first was ok but they squished so much lore into a movie it wasnt great, it would be much better as a streaming TV show
Actually, the more apt term would be “The people responsible for giving movies funds for budgets and deciding where to release movies and in how many movie theatres” though in the case of the Warcraft movie only involved 3.
You never responded to me, and the reasoning is you don’t have any substance to your own claim.
That’s not how profit works. Profit is how much did I make versus how much did I spend, across all markets.
Gross doesn’t matter.
It grossed more. It didn’t generate more profit than, because it didn’t generate any profit. The sources you claim are “opinion pieces” are not. You’re either being willfully ignorant about a very strange topic on which to be so, or you’re trolling.
Yes, which again you and the others never substantiate, not even in the article linked even as an opinion piece does it get near that.
Yet, they brought out stats about gross for other films in the first place.
Again, not substantiated in any way.
The forbes Article written by an opinion piece writer that again has no numbers and admitted so in their article because they don’t have the numbers? Woops.
I’m neither, that would be yourself and others ESPECIALLY by the forum definition I linked earlier in this thread.
There’s a reason there’s a big chunk missing every time someone mentions profit and they don’t actually cover all the numbers. Even Indaria’s spam quote is off by a large margin. :3
It’s also funny the same people that tried to shut down one side for using a wiki, liked the post that’s only substantiation (again lacking more than yet another entire films worth of budget) is a wiki. :3
Warcraft grossed $47.4 million in the United States, and $391.7 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $439 million. Given its $160 million production budget and additional $110 million spent on promotions, the film needed to earn $450–500 million in order to break-even.
There is a market for it in China. The film earned $220.8 million in China alone. Imagine if there was some effort put into developing a sold script, story, acting, and directing. The original movie isn’t a complete loser. It is projected to break even. BTW, movies in China have become real good. So it’s not that Chinese people are so starved for entertainment that they will just watch anything. It could happen.
CCP takes 75% of the profits in China. So even if the filmed grossed $220.8 million in China, Hollywood only saw $55.2 million. Then factor in all the money spent on promotion, and cinema ticket fees. Like I said before, Cineplex takes 45% (yet I have to substantiate this to someone else…).
