Henry Bevan isn’t a fan of those “worst films of the year” lists… In December, your social media lights up with lots of people listing their best films of the year. The flipside, is you also get lots of critics saying what the worst films of the year are. The latter is a horrible thing […]
Warcraft passes $250 million worldwide but fails to grab North American audiences
Having finally been released in North America after a couple of weeks of international screenings, Warcraft didn’t find its feet domestically – but like X-Men: Apocalypse last week, it’s been saved by worldwide takings. The movie opened against The Conjouring 2 and Now You See Me 2, but failed to topple the former taking second […]
Warcraft earns the second biggest opening in China ever with $46 million; passes $100 million worldwide
Following the weekend’s box office, we reported that Duncan Jones’ Warcraft (or Warcraft: The Beginning) had worked its way up to $70 million worldwide. Although some are theorising a pretty poor run domestically, it has performed exceptionally well in China. After a whopping $7.6 million from midnight screenings, Warcraft brought home $46 million from its […]
Warcraft movie earns $70 million at the box office ahead of its domestic release
Having opened in several territories last week to $31 million, Duncan Jones Warcraft (or Warcraft: The Beginning) [read our review here] has doubled its box office in its second week of release. The movie was released in several more international territories including Spain, Italy and a full release in the UK and brought its box […]
Duncan Jones reveals that 40 minutes were cut from his Warcraft movie
One of the big sticking points from a lot of the critical drubbing of Duncan Jones’ movie adaptation Warcraft [read our review here] is the film’s break-neck pace. Well it turns out – as Luke and Oli theorised on the Flickering Myth Podcast last week – that around 40 minutes were cut from the movie. […]
Warcraft movie opens to $31 million
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. The film debuted in territories such as Russia (where it earned the most), Germany, Sweden and limited screenings here in the UK. The film opens fully this coming […]
Interview: Warcraft stars Travis Fimmel and Paula Patton
The eagerly-anticipated release of Warcraft is finally upon us, with the first film based on the hugely successful video-game series opening in the UK this coming week [read our review here]. Directed by Duncan Jones (Source Code, Moon), Warcraft tells the beginning of the war of Azeroth, a peaceful realm that stands on the brink […]
Movie Review – Warcraft: The Beginning (2016)
Warcraft: The Beginning, 2016 Directed by Duncan Jones Starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Clancy Brown, Daniel Wu, Ruth Negga, Anna Galvin SYNOPSIS: The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their […]
Warcraft director Duncan Jones on the videogame movie curse
Appearing at BlizzCon to promote his upcoming fantasy epic Warcraft – which received its first trailer on Friday night [watch it here] – director Duncan Jones has taken part in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, where he was asked for his thoughts on Warcraft and Asssassin’s Creed being highlighted as two movies that could potentially […]
The Week in Disappointment – Quentin Tarantino, 478, Warcraft, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fantastic Four, Bond, The Girl on the Train
Anghus Houvouras with this week’s disappointments from the entertainment world… “Quentin Tarantino calls Police ‘murderers’” This story is both disappointing and ludicrous. It’s odd on so many levels, like a layer cake made of embarrassment and iced with awkwardness. You have Quentin Tarantino, The ultimate white-guy-who-thinks-he’s-black talking smack about the Police, as if he has […]
