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there is no interest or demand for it, there is no Will Smith, it looks generic af, it has been 20 years since the first one, there is a lot of competition.

not cinema audiences. ridiculous? no one cares about it. and there is so much competition this summer, not to mention every sequel has been dropping HARD.

Independence Day is gonna bomb. OW under 35M.

Conjuring 2 may technically be ahead in numbers, but it is a sequel to something audiences were already familiar with and liked, whereas Warcraft is original. So that's the real win.

Good - was worried I wasn't explaining myself very well. :?

Discount on IMAX, we don't have PLF, and most places so still have a surcharge for 3D. My cinema had equal 2D and 3D prices anyway.

Oh, @Telemachos it's also worth mentioning that the internal price of a ticket is negotiated with by the distributor. Generally the cinema has pretty much free reign to price tickets how they like, but with these, distributors have more control. E.g. at my cinema, Unlimited tickets for Sony movies were £4.50, while Warner Bros and Disney were lower at £3. Think there was one that was lower, but it was generally £3-4.

Yeah, the tickets are given a value (significantly lower than a standard ticket) and that value is reported to the distributors and then cut back to the cinema; but it's a value that the customer doesn't have to pay. So, e.g. at the cinema I worked at: From internal point of view: Adult ticket: £10. Customer is charged full £10, is reported as £10 revenue. Child ticket: £6. Customer is charged full £6, is reported as £6 revenue. Unlimited ticket: £3. Customer is charged £0, is reported as £3 revenue. And then the cut the cinema gets is taken from the overall revenues. So if the distributor takes 2/3 of revenue, then for every Unlimited ticket booked, the customer pays £0, the distributor gets £2. The customer just pays their £17 monthly subscription, which goes straight into the cinema's pocket.

its holding on really well, 98M currently and plenty more left in the tank.

Universal only spent $40M on the production of the movie. Plus, I don't believe they handled marketing in China. Legendary has the Warcraft rights, and Legendary is a Chinese company... there is no way a sequel does not get made.

it is beating 336M from China, correct.

yes it is [mod edit]

Seems certain? According to what, exactly?

I don't think it is a coincidence that DUncan Jones's WARCRAFT is going to destroy both James Wan movies, furious 7 and Conjuring 2. The prophecy has foretold that WARCRAFT will conquer all. I mean look at James Wan, he has no idea how to make a movie: Where as Duncan ZOWIE BOWIE Jones has made a legendary film, and it is going to crush everything. GOnna win the weekend and be the biggest film of all time in China.

there is no Saturday estimate, given that it is currently 2am Friday night over there...

except that I am using logic and reason. It's up to 125M in China after 3 days. Even if it were to only do 50M for Sat/Sun (which would be absurdly, unreasonably low) that would leave it with 175M. Given it will be in wide release in China there is no sane reason to think it will open to 175M and then only make 50M more from that (which is what everyone saying it'll be under Zootopia is). As for domestic numbers... the FACT is that all we have is a preview number. to project an opening weekend for a brand new movie franchise based on only a few hours of shows is ridiculous. people are jumping on the bandwagon to hate it.

I change my avatar, name & profile according to every movie that I really like. Lots of people here do that.

yup, rather you go away than you posting dumb shit about a movie you don't care about

This is a sequel remember. Frontloaded af.

Anyway I don't care, I have seen it twice, and will see it several times more, don't even have to pay so who's the dumbass now?

Don't really know why I am getting criticised for saying this stuff. It's true. People suggesting it will open to under 20M despite 3M previews? Saying that China will have 80% of its gross in its opening weekend despite having a full, long release? Don't even know why you would irrationally hate on something you haven't seen. The movie is awesome and you are just missing out by pre judging it, before any real numbers, before you have seen it.

TRUTH.

those Chinese people don't know what they talking about. Warcraft is gonna beat furious 7, and then it's gonna beat The Mermaid. Suck it up, losers.

No one other than teenagers watches horror films. especially these shitty jump scares ones, compared to actual horror movies like The Babadook, and The Witch, which just bomb horribly.

I swear people are just out to get Warcraft. I don't get it, why can't y'all hate on a fucking Marvel movie or a star Wars one? There are billions of those movies that do nothing but copy themselves , while Warcraft, a vaguely original tentpole movie, is getting shat on by you folks who haven't even watched it.