Luke Owen interviews the people behind 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider… These interviews are taken from Lights, Camera, GAME OVER!: How Video Game Movies Get Made – available now from all good book sellers. By the end of the 1990s, the idea of turning a video game into a movie wasn’t high on the list […]
Vin Diesel, Megan Fox, Jason Momoa, Ronda Rousey and Liam Neeson rumoured for Mortal Kombat reboot
Take this bit of news with a pinch of salt, but there are some rumours floating around the Internet that the Mortal Kombat reboot has a cast in place – and it’s pretty star studded. According to website Frag Hero – who claim this story to be confirmed – Vin Diesel (Guardians of the Galaxy), Megan Fox (Teenage Mutant […]
Warcraft is now the biggest video game movie of all-time
Last week we reported how The Angry Birds Movie had become the second biggest video game movie of all-time and theorised it would overtake Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in the coming weeks. Well it looks like we were a little off base as the worldwide screenings of Warcraft have propelled it to the […]
The Angry Birds Movie becomes the second biggest video game film of all-time
Following on from the good news of Warcraft passing $250 million worldwide, fellow video game adaptation The Angry Birds Movie has some good news of its own. Having been in cinemas for nearly a month, The Angry Birds Movie has hit $312 million worldwide – making it the second biggest video game movie of all-time. It’s […]
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 […]