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HONG KONG (AP) — China's state-owned film distributor is making its first investment in Hollywood movies by taking a stake in two Legendary Entertainment productions.
China Film Co. will make an "eight-figure equity investment" in two upcoming films, "Seventh Son" and "Warcraft," the Chinese unit of Legendary Entertainment said Tuesday.
The exact amount of the U.S. dollar investment was not specified.
"Seventh Son" is a fantasy adventure starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore that's scheduled for release on Feb. 6, 2015. "Warcraft," based on a popular video game series, is slated for release March 11, 2016.
Source: https://movies.yahoo.com/news/china-film-takes-1st-stake-hollywood-movies-053415050.html
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Have always been a fan of Night Elf race and Moon. Excited how will this movie turns out. We may be looking forward to a Lord of Rings style adaptation.
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Oh shit, that is a pretty big investment from China. They seem to love their Warcraft/WoW, even though Blizzard games have not had the smoothest of roads there.
Hopefully this movie won't be a terrible gimmick to attract players or just cheesy in general (think The Last Airbender), I played WC3 and WoW for basically my whole childhood so seeing it be at least mildly good would be okay with me.
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I'm going to force myself to not be too optimistic about this. Warcraft is one of my favorite games. Never played WC2 or 1, but I remember the day I got WC3: ROC. It was spectacular. The cinematics were epic and I would watch them over and over. Plus I got sucked into the story of Warcraft. I never got into WoW.
The game manual was cool too, had a little extra history to the characters/races.
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Will probably be terrible sadly.
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I look forward to seeing the trailer. I guess we will only really be able to judge how good or bad it is then.
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Jeez, why would you invest in Hollywood?
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"You brought the might Leonardo di Hellscream" - mannoroth
Huehuehuehue
Could be like inception, a dream of warcraft or something
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On April 20 2014 15:11 dravernor wrote: I look forward to seeing the trailer. I guess we will only really be able to judge how good or bad it is then.
How judging movies by the trailer usually goes ?
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I wouldn't mind Ron Perlman playing an orc or a tauren.
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On April 20 2014 15:56 rezoacken wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2014 15:11 dravernor wrote: I look forward to seeing the trailer. I guess we will only really be able to judge how good or bad it is then. How judging movies by the trailer usually goes ? I meant quality/budget-wise. Obviously I have seen some really great trailers that turned out to be awful movies.
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Bah I can see the visual quality and money being there... with all its cheesy dialogue, awful acting and uninspired plot.
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lol sounds like it will be horrendous.
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On April 20 2014 16:10 rezoacken wrote: Bah I can see the visual quality and money being there... with all its cheesy dialogue, awful acting and uninspired plot. These days it is only the graphics that sells movies anyway :/
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My expectations for this movie are so low, it would have to be worse than that abomination of a movie Avatar: the Last Airbender was for me to actually be disappointed, although of course I would still be embarrassed for the franchise.
I don't understand why they don't realize the best timing for this movie was years ago, when WoW was still rising or at a plateau of its popularity (probably BC or WotLK era I guess). Now the news about WoW is how many or how few subscribers they've lost, and how many might come back for the next expansion. The game is just old now.
That's not to say it's a bad game, just that the movie would have been much more hype a while ago. Now, it has to stand more on its own merits, unless they do something wild like tying it to another expansion in plot and release date (or maybe to WC4 )
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I was actually hyped for this back in 2006 when I played WoW, now not so much.
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On April 20 2014 16:13 Caihead wrote: lol sounds like it will be horrendous. hopefully not as horrendous as dragonball... probably this will come with the release speculation date of wc4 on 2016. who knows.... maybe this is bliz's secret project...
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On April 20 2014 16:46 Vaelone wrote: I was actually hyped for this back in 2006 when I played WoW, now not so much. Yeah, feels like way too late but I'd still watch if that was for real. Blizz always had that special grasp on creating epic storylines and I shivered quite some times when I saw cinematics, whatever franchise of blizzard it was. HotS actually is the first Blizzard game where the cinematics and story actually did not catch me. I have to admit, the hots campaign felt not as deep as WoL or SC/BW
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Central story arc is bound to be a forbidden love between an orc and a night elf.
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On April 20 2014 16:01 dravernor wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2014 15:56 rezoacken wrote:On April 20 2014 15:11 dravernor wrote: I look forward to seeing the trailer. I guess we will only really be able to judge how good or bad it is then. How judging movies by the trailer usually goes ? I meant quality/budget-wise. Obviously I have seen some really great trailers that turned out to be awful movies. can you post an example?
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The release date is nothing new. China putting so much money into it is though, that's what the thread should really be about. I think we alrdy have a TL thread about the Warcraft movie anyway.
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Chris Metzin already dropped that it is going to be a prequel even before the original Warcraft 1 at Blizzcon this year. I think he mentioned Lothar as the protagonist.
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On April 21 2014 03:29 Assault_1 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2014 16:01 dravernor wrote:On April 20 2014 15:56 rezoacken wrote:On April 20 2014 15:11 dravernor wrote: I look forward to seeing the trailer. I guess we will only really be able to judge how good or bad it is then. How judging movies by the trailer usually goes ? I meant quality/budget-wise. Obviously I have seen some really great trailers that turned out to be awful movies. can you post an example? I was so excited for Vantage Point
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On April 20 2014 16:13 Caihead wrote: lol sounds like it will be horrendous. video games that come from movies are shit. I dont see how the opposite could work out better...
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On April 21 2014 04:16 soon.Cloak wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2014 03:29 Assault_1 wrote:On April 20 2014 16:01 dravernor wrote:On April 20 2014 15:56 rezoacken wrote:On April 20 2014 15:11 dravernor wrote: I look forward to seeing the trailer. I guess we will only really be able to judge how good or bad it is then. How judging movies by the trailer usually goes ? I meant quality/budget-wise. Obviously I have seen some really great trailers that turned out to be awful movies. can you post an example? I was so excited for Vantage Point vantage point was good... i like that movie... probably you were expecting more...
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On April 21 2014 03:29 Assault_1 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 20 2014 16:01 dravernor wrote:On April 20 2014 15:56 rezoacken wrote:On April 20 2014 15:11 dravernor wrote: I look forward to seeing the trailer. I guess we will only really be able to judge how good or bad it is then. How judging movies by the trailer usually goes ? I meant quality/budget-wise. Obviously I have seen some really great trailers that turned out to be awful movies. can you post an example? The purge!
Reading any news about warcraft always makes me want to go back, and play a bit.
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On April 21 2014 03:36 imJealous wrote: Chris Metzin already dropped that it is going to be a prequel even before the original Warcraft 1 at Blizzcon this year. I think he mentioned Lothar as the protagonist. If true, I think that is best. I always liked the background for Warcraft 1 and 2. It's also pretty open ended on where you can take the story. But the whole Guldan and Medivh backstory really creeped me out originally (when combined with those old school Warhammer type drawings with orcs holding up bloody heads of their rivals.) If they could recapture that dark feeling that got lost in the changing graphic style of WCIII and World of Warcraft, that would be awesome.
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Gosh I really wish they did a Starcraft Movie too. So much lore it could have been amazing.
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On April 21 2014 05:20 Faust852 wrote: Gosh I really wish they did a Starcraft Movie too. So much lore it could have been amazing. see starship troppers.... haha~ zerg vs terran the dreaded swarm hosts too are there~
probably china made an effort to invest knowing the popularity of wc3 in their country this was planned before but i believe bliz made a stop to that as 'not ruining' the image of present wc haydays of that time
@ragequitmb yah, loves to play to with my friends until now... i just kinda 'hate' orcs, hero imba...
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Expectations are below negative.
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You will be embarassed for playing WoW knowing that this movie is out there and people have seen it.
I cannot see a single shred of hope for this movie to be good. There's just no possibility.
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On April 21 2014 03:36 imJealous wrote: Chris Metzin already dropped that it is going to be a prequel even before the original Warcraft 1 at Blizzcon this year. I think he mentioned Lothar as the protagonist.
Chris Metzen is involved in the scenario ?
Ok garbage incoming nothing to see here people.
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at least its not done by Disney
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I have no expectations for this because I really don't care about Warcraft anymore, I think my years spent wasted playing WoW made me bitter.
That being said, I'm surprised that they're spending so much money and time making this, when it could just as easily be a cash grab that could have released in 2012 and everyone would've wanted to watch it. I wonder if they're just pouring money into this because they don't know what they're doing so they don't know how to be efficient, or if they really intend to make it good. Either way, old school blizzard is dead as far as I'm concerned, let's see if new blizzard can make something decent happen with this. Can't patch a movie to be good two years down the line...
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