‘Warcraft’ Fever Hits China as Advance Sales Reach $20.4 Million

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Ultr said:

crissindahouse said:

Studios get only 25% of the ticket sales in China, if a lot of the revenue will come from there then they will need more than  $300m to break even. 

Probably more like minimum $350m needed (well, depends how much would come from CHina)

As the movie itself was funded partly by chinese studios and one of the studios own 1/4 of all the cinemas in China. Does this still apply?

I imagine this makes the break even a lot lower than what it would otherwise be. Probably puts the China returns back at 50% of gross.

I've just seen the Angry Joe review, who was the second video game fan movie reviewer I was looking at as an indicator for the movie. And I'm now conflicted. He didn't outright say the movie was good, as he said there were problems with it, then he gave it a 7/10 and still recommended people see it, but more so it could make enough to earn a sequel. But then he said Mortal Kombat is a better VG adaptation than Warcraft, and I didn't really like Mortal Combat. He was equivocal about the movie, and Jeremy Jahns was also equivocal. So I'm inclined to give it a miss.