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

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Pemalite said:

binary solo said:

But one criticism of the plot was that for people unfamiliar with Warcraft it appeared that there needed to be a fair bit of prior knowledge in order to engage. 

Looks like opening weekend in the USA will be around $25 million, which is a few million more than initially predicted, but not so much more that it is looking like an unexpected hit. It will avoid flop status (in the USA), but that's as far as it goes. I think for a $160 million budget film the box office in the USA will be disappointing, but worldwide it will do fine.

Nah. You didn't need any prior knowledge. It was a simple good vs evil concept, which was easy to grasp, friend that I took to watch it found it easy to catch on and recognized a few of the character names from Hearthstone.

It's interesting how badly it has done in the USA, it's a Chinese-backed film and is doing extremely well in Asian country's. Hoping for a sequel to be honest.

I dunno, seems like a few people/reviewers had some issues with it seeming like prior knowledge is important to really get the movie. And even your friend knows a bit of stuff from Hearthstone, so they are not going in completely cold.