Warcraft has become the No. 1 top-grossing video game adaptation to have ever hit the silver screen and you probably haven’t seen it. And I bet $10 that you don’t know anyone who has seen it, because roughly 90 percent of those ticket sales have come from China.
Just to give an idea of how dismal the movie has done in the United States market compared to China, Kotaku points out that movie pulled in $185.5 million in its third weekend in China. In the United States, Warcraft has only pulled $37 million since the movie first opened June 10. In total, the movie has grossed over $377 million at the box office worldwide.
Maybe it says more about the backward views of the western-centric movie going audience than anything weird about the Chinese. From the beginning, Warcraft has been fighting a prejudiced video games-are-for-children connotation that has slaughtered it in critics' eyes.
Below is an interview Adam Rosser, a BBC radio journalist, had with Duncan Jones, the director of Warcraft. Rosser would later pull the interview from BBC iPlayer following death threats regarding his criticisms of the movie.
Right. Any feedback that involves death threats isn't worth the candle tbh. So 20k views in that's gone.
— Adam Rosser (@AdamRosserRadio) June 14, 2016
Jackie Chan couldn’t be happier about the film’s success in China however, because it proves there’s more to filmmaking than American sensibilities.
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