Luke Owen keeps track of the biggest video game movies… To go along with our Highest Grossing Superhero Movies of All-Time list, I felt we should also keep tabs on the video game movie adaptation. Since their debut in 1993, they’ve mostly come with a bad reputation, bad reviews and often bad box office results. […]
Deadpool tops the list of the most pirated movies of 2016
After unveiling the most pirated TV shows of the year earlier this week, Torrent Freak has now revealed the ten most-pirated movies of 2016, based upon the number of illegal downloads on BitTorrent over the past six months. There aren’t really any major surprises here, save perhaps for the lack of Zootopia, which is the […]
The Highest Grossing Movies of 2016
Luke Owen charts the highest grossing movies of 2016… The box office battle of 2016 is now in the books, and Disney are the ones wearing the king’s crown. Their domestic totals are very impressive, and their worldwide takings are even better. As with the opening weekends, The House of Mouse holds six of the […]
When Will Shared Universes End?
This week Neil Calloway questions how long cinematic shared universes can last… It was announced on Thursday that Margot Robbie – given the sweetener of an Executive Producer to boot – had signed on for a Harley Quinn solo movie. This followed hot on the heels of the news that Anne Hathaway would be open […]
Duncan Jones shares his frustrations with Warcraft, rules out a director’s cut
Despite proving a hit in China, Warcraft didn’t quite manage to click with the majority of Western audiences, and failed to replicate the success of its video game counterpart, grossing just $213 million outside of the Middle Kingdom and seemingly failing to provide the lucrative franchise launchpad that its hopeful “The Beginning” subtitle suggested. During […]
Why Chinese Censors Can Make Or Break A Film
This week, Neil Calloway explains why China being afraid of ghosts harms Hollywood… Despite much antagonism towards the film, and mixed reviews, Ghostbusters has so far managed to make $80 million globally; not bad going for a film that everyone thought – and some hoped – would crash and burn. However, news came this week […]
Chinese Twitter account teases Warcraft sequel
Although Warcraft failed miserably at the U.S. box office, grossing just $24 million, the Duncan Jones-directed fantasy epic has performed rather well in China, helping to propel the film to a solid $430 million worldwide and making it the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time. Universal and Legendary had franchise hopes for the movie (hence […]
Warcraft crosses $400 million worldwide
Following last week’s news that Duncan Jones’ big screen adaptation of Warcraft has become the biggest video game movie of all-time, it has unlocked another achievement. Warcraft never really found its feet domestically, and has dropped out of the Top 10 after just three weeks (earning around $2 million over the weekend), and its domestic […]
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 […]
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 […]
