I guess that was the end of vidya kino?

I guess that was the end of vidya kino?

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Too bad coz the move was good

Assassin's kino is out later this year.

heres your complimentary (you) for pretending something shit was good.

I don't think they'll lose money if you take all the new subscriptions to World of Warcraft into consideration.

By that logic, Star Wars and LOTR failed too

ok then

DvD sales might save it. Good DvD sales have saved movies before and granted them a sequel. Like the riddick series.

It really was. Or are you one of those guys who only enjoy "kino"? It was way better than your capeshit movies like BvS or avengers

This is not the same logic. Please leave.

What new subscribers? The movie barely had an audience and it's not far off to assume most were already fans

>DVD
>in 2016

I watched this movie last night and it was laughably atrocious. Based Gul'Dan was dope though.

Well, by DVD I mean all forms of distribution. Blu-ray, digital copies, renting them etc.
It should be obvious, my friend.

Chinese ones.

Shit was terrible. Turned it off after 5 mins

This. You need to remember this is part of a larger marketing strategy that will involve numerous merchandising tie-ins, spin offs, perhaps TV shows, all kinds of shit. The movie doesn't actually need to be a success because this isn't about making money from a movie. It's the first piece of a larger puzzle.

Also remember Hearthstone and Overwatch are making money hand over fist. This movie is not happening in a vacuum and companies frequently will take a loss in one division while making up for it in profits from others because they can all be used together as part of a larger business strategy that will be a success overall.

c'mon guys they make everyone take at least one business class these days, try to pay attention, it's not a mysterious or uncommon strategy

It's obvious you have no idea that the home video market has been in tatters for years and next to no film has been saved by dvd sales in forever.

For the 2 months it's stocked in Redboxes, lingering in people's memory to order on Netflix, or stocked by the aisles in Walmart for compulsory buys it could make a buck. Other than that the concept of people buying DVDs is as dated as DVDs

shitposting aside

The CGI orcs were the best part of the movie, the only characters that had conflict and motivation. I was engaged in the parts the orc conspired against the Hitler Shaman guy.

The movie just had to be shorter and more simple. It should have focused on Durotan, and a classic hero's journey in the human side.
I could see where the video game lore autism hindered this a lot.

Riddick continued because Vin Diesel loved the character and made his control of it a condition of continuing in the Fast & Furious series.
A genuine example of a failure continuing based on DVD sales would be Firefly.

It's really easy to just rent a movie online now. And I think a lot of people do it that way.

Nope
variety.com/2016/digital/news/gfk-study-70-percent-never-bought-digital-videos-1201843250/
>46 percent of consumers have ever bought or rented a digital movie or TV show, according to GfK’s recent Home Technology Monitor. In contrast, 86 percent of consumers have rented or bought a DVD or Blu-ray in the past, and 78 percent have done so with a VHS tape.

>37 percent of respondents said they bought physical media in the past that came with the option to access a digital version of the movie. However, two-thirds of those buyers never activated those digital copies.

>33 percent of consumers who do rent digital movies do so every month, compared to 60 percent who had done so with physical media in the past. And while the average DVD collection used to contain about 87 discs, digital collections are only made up of 23 titles on average.

That's a small study and you don't have anything to compare it with.
Is the number going up or down?

More and more people are getting smart TVs, apple TVs, chromecasts etc.

These things come with really easy ways of watching movies.
Many normies I talk to, dont even touch torrenting and just stream/rent.

It's all streaming now, legally or illegally.

Paying 3 dollars on average to rent something you'll watch once and might not enjoy versus 8-10 (or 0) dollars a month for a whole viewing library. It's a no brainer why digital download hasn't taken off

Well, it dosen't need to take of in order for the studios to cash in some extra revenue.

It was an inconsistent disjointed mess

>LOTR
>"horrendous losses"
Literally no source.

Why did it fail? Was it bad?

I enjoyed it, but then again I actually play WoW.

>twf they will never make a WOTLK movie

Don't those campy Resident Evil movies make a lot of money?

It was probably the beat fantasy movie since the first Hobbit movie, which isn't really saying much I guess but whatever.

All other recent fantasy movies have been nauseating CGI garbage made by complete hacks. Clash of the Titans, Gods of Egypt, Hercules, all that stuff. It's crap. It's bad, and not in an enjoyable way.

On the other hand, Warcraft feels like an actual movie. Duncan Jones is an actual filmmaker. It has a lot of issues with pacing, editing, characterisation, and art direction but it wasn't terrible. Solid 5 I'd say. Decent fun.

Yeah, for some reason.

Which isn't to say I don't enjoy some of them, it's just that I don't understand how a franchise that's made up of glorified, bigger budget Sci-Fi originals manages to keep making money.

they budget smartly. the first was 30 million.

>campy
That's the problem I have with them. There's always an element of tongue in cheek with camp. It has to be very slight, and subtle, juuuuust enough where you can let the audience in on the joke without beating them over the head with it and making it too obvious

Resident Evil doesn't feel campy to me though. I get the impression that the people involved genuinely think they're making "badass" action movies. It's like the airport scene from the Daredevil movie, but for 90 minutes.

some of the cgi scenes looked good and then it would cut to something that was ps2/civil war tier, was jarring at times

pic related scene looked bad at first, and a bunch of other small ones where lighting would be off and it just looked uncanny valley at best

fucking idiots!
there is only one fucking unique and gripping story in the whole warcraft garbage universe and they decide to make this boring ass shit for their first movie

what the heck is wrong with them

Box Office is just a dick-waving contest.

Save us Ralph!

I still want a Bioshock flick

I like that he dispatches him in the duel by sliding below him and cutting his crotch in one move.

It was supposed to be mostly about the orcs, but the good old "higher ups" decided that the audiences will be confused as to why the big, tusked monsers are not the evil guys.

>Assassin's kino is out later this year.

This.

Scene looks cool but why did they deviate from the game's story so much when it is meant to be a series based entirely on the Warcraft games? Was the game's lore/plot not a good format for the movie? I think having Durotan and wife murdered by assassins and Doomhammer killing Blackhand would have set up the next movie better.

Bioshock is all about atmosphere and exploration at your own pace. I don't see how anyone, let alone Hollywood, could turn that into a good movie.

remember when Sup Forums thought this was going to be the capeshit killer?

Here you go faggot: nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10693123

WoW fag here, i found the movie ok. I knew going in that it wont be like the games or books and just chilled.

Fuckin orcs looked great the jokes they had where hit an miss but not obnoxious or overstay there welcome. Half way mark sort of draged on.

I wanted to fuck khadgar, he was fucking perfect.

Warcraft was more successful than Pacific Rim. Cheaper sequel marketed mostly for China isn't out of the question.

this. Assassin's Creed will be the end of vidya kino.

how does this even make sense? Marketing + other production costs?

Of course it's part of a bigger marketing strategy. It's like when Amazing Spiderman 2 came out. You need to understand it was meant to setup multiple sequels and spinoff movies, maybe even a TV series. How could it fail when it made $100 million opening weekend?

Oh...it did fail, didn't it? But surely the same thing won't happen to Warcraft. R-Right? I-It'll make up lost money on DVD, I'm sure. The low domestic doesn't mean anything. The critics are all just haters that don't play wow like us geeks. Video Kino, right guys? Guys?

Most of them is bullshit. Batman printed lot of dosh. That's why they let complete freedom to Burton for the sequel

I loved it

The only real issue I can see here is that if you're not familiar with WoW lore then the whole thing can seem a bit difficult to follow as to what and who everything is and should be.

>I've been a wowfag since 05 though

Cont.

Ido hope though that they both do a Litch King/Arthas film AND keep it as close as possible to the actual Lore unlike the changes they made for this film.

Never played WoW, but I did play the RTS games(not once since the mid 2000s tho) and I still found it easy to follow. Some people are just stupid I guess

>Who would you/should they cast?

You know they gave away and are giving away copies of WoW with both the film tickets and now the DVD/Bluray copies?

They're trying to get more people into WoW (and by extension, Hearthstone)

what game

Yeah but up to which expansion?

Posted wrong pic

Almost certainly just the basic game (WoD). They're not going to give away their expensive new expansion for free.

We have at least 2 films until Frozen Throne user. I imagine they'll have a film for Tides of Darkness and one for Beyond the Dark Portal, plus 1 or 2 for Reign of Chaos.

ed skrein for arthas 100%

He'll be Illidan. Dan Stevens for Arthas.

>Investigation from an industry outsider with speculation based on completely guessed numbers of investor return

Sure thing, a movie series with a few hundred million budget lost "horrendously" on a $2.7 billion box office.

i think he can pull it of

I'd still like him for Illidan more.

i can dig it, but they'd have to choose between arthas's story arc and the legion's invasion desu

so we need a good muradin, jaina mal'ganis. oh kel'thuzad and uther too.

>muradin
No idea who. Ian McShane

>jaina
Maika Monroe. She has the off-look that you'd expect a wizard to have

>Mal'Ganis
Andy Serkis

>Kelk'thuzad
Voice of Frank Langella

>Tyrande
Emily Blunt

>Druid Stormrage(forgot his fucking name)
Liam Neeson

>Uther
Thomas Kretschmann

I can see the whole concept of Hollywood accounting went way over your head

>Druid Stormrage(forgot his fucking name)
Liam Neeson
Furion? Might work.

>movie is just the first act of the story
>it sort of "flopped"

when will these fucks learn?
make the first movie stand alone but with a few lose threads for possible sequels

I forgot the Horde for some reason
>Thrall
Sam Rockwell

>Grom
Big Guy

>Cairne
Voice of Rene Auberjonois

malfurion. yeh decent shout tbf, could see him as king terenas too.

andy serkis would be dope as fuck though.

I think he appeared in tokyo drift for 10 seconds at the end in exchange for Riddick

Honestly, with the Night Elves you could go completely fucking nuts. Make'em all Japs or Korean. Cast off-kilter completely. Have Tyrande be played by a young model with the voice of Judi Dench. Have Maiev be an ugly as sin cunt with the voice of Sacrlett Johansson. Have Malfurion and Illidan be played by the same actor. If there's a time to go nuts in the story, it's with the Night Elves tebehe.

I hate WoW and I liked the movie, I'm disappointed it didn't do better

There's that Jewish accounting for you. If they never show a profit, they don't have to share it. No way some of those movies didn't turn a profit.

>Utter Failure

Cause nobody played WC1 & 2, should have just made a WC3 movie about Thrall and Arthas.

The warcraft movie was innocent fantasy fun that was filled with some more or less suble WoW shoutouts to appease the WoWfags, who came to see it because they started to follow the Warcraft story with WoW.

>that scene where khadgar turns the guard into a sheep
"It only works on the simple minded"
The whole movie is filled with these references to the game.

The movie was not of high caliber and I feel it did not try to be. There is no artistic value, but I can feel a certain amount of nostalgia to be engulfed in the goofy warcraft universe and get to know the visualised story about the dark portal. For me it felt like a 2 hour long cutscene addon for WoW, but it did a good job at that.

Always ask for gross points (the deal rdj got for the iron man series). Net points are no points.

someone pls explain why blizzard did no quality control on this, it was an ok movie but could have been great with more effort

I've seem some pre-release footage of this, probably about 15 mins worth, unfinished CGI, etc.

If the rest of the film is like what I've seen, this is going to be a disaster. It'll bomb HARD. Shares a lot in common with Warcraft in no fucking clue what was going on or why to care about anything or just pure cringe.

>bits of CGI hand bounce off a 'camera'
That makes as much sense as lens flare in a completely CG scene.

>playing wows new expansion
>im enjoying it
>still not going to watch this garbage

When he got turned into the sheep I had cracked up bruh

had a few sensible chuckles at the murloc noises at the beginning

bruh it was good for WoWfags for sure, had some chuckles and good referencing summed it up pretty well

>Production budget: $160 million
>Gross: $433 million

Sounds like a success to me.

Domestically, where Universal will get the lion's share of the profits, it flopped.

Most of that $386 mill internationally came from China, who are notoriously hard to get get the full profits from. Check out the difficulties Transformers 4 had. On paper, it sold $433 million worth of tickets worldwide, but realistically the studio itself only barely made back its money, or came in just under.

watched it recently and there was literary nothing wrong with the movie, it's actually the most fun I've had with a flick since fury road.

just goes to show that the """critics""" are horrible at their job, and that rotten tomatoes should be shut down for good.

alphonso cuaron for the screenplay, innarito for direction and our main man lubezki for cinematography.
also throw in someone like jean paul gartier and/or guillermo del toro's creature shop/creative people for the art direction.

and before you start you murder everyone at the production company and the game company so there is no one left who can stick their porky pie fingers into the project and its just in the hands of the artists. cast nobodies. maybe leo for the big bad or something but everyone else is a nobody.

ACTUAL DECENT MOVIES BASED ON VIDYA:

Mortal Kombat

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>the end of vidya kino

How can that which has never begun even come to an end?

>movies is a success everywhere just not in burgerland
it just goes to show what kind of retarded market the usa really is, I mean just look at the movies that actually do good in domestic cinemas, 'nuff said

Jaime lannister or im not watching it

Same, though I disagree that there was "nothing wrong". As
said, there were a few sequences that stood out as "what the fuck" kind of moments. Essentially anything that was centered on the humans ended up feeling really stiff and weird, while all the orc scenes were kino as heck

this you fucking retard

Too old

My wife has had no interest in Warcraft despite seeing me play WoW and the RTS games.

She saw the movie and her only issue was 'It was hard to follow who was who at times as the names arent what I'm used to.'

She now has a WoW account and its re-sparked my interest in finding easter eggs and actually exploring.

how he looks younger then the fucking pick of arhas you fucking cunt, he should be arthas looks exactly like him and can fucking act better than anyof the other mongs mentioned here

Too old.

Arthas is in his late 20s early 30s in WV3 / TFT