Tag: Warcraft
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‘Arcane’ Season 2: Everything We Know So Far About the Netflix Show
The hit animated series Arcane took the world by surprise. The spin-off show, based on the popular Riot PC game League of Legends, had the potential to be as big a flop as the film Warcraft (based on the also popular game World of Warcraft). However, unlike Warcraft, with its Rotten Tomatoes rating of 28%,…
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How the Future of Entertainment Will Be Forged Between Hollywood and Video Games
IndieWire turns 25 this year. To mark the occasion, we’re running a series of essays about the future of everything we cover.It was May 1993 when the “Super Mario Bros.” movie was first released to a nation of very confused gamers, and it’s safe to say that Hollywood and video games have experienced a somewhat…
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‘Y: The Last Man’ TV Series Recruits ‘Warcraft’ Star Ben Schnetzer to Replace Barry Keoghan
It’s been a long road for FX’s series adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s award-winning sci-fi graphic novel Y: The Last Man. The project has been in the works for years, hitting speedbump after speedbump, and with production right around the corner in April, it looked like the series had a big problem…
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The ‘Warcraft’ Trilogy That Never Was: Director Duncan Jones Reveals Planned Story Arc
Warcraft hit theaters back in 2016, and it didn’t arrive with much fanfare. The Legendary Pictures film only managed to get a 27% on Rotten Tomatoes, and it only made $47 million domestically. Granted, the movie made another $386 million around the globe, but for a movie that cost around $160 million to make, that’s…
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Film News Roundup: Toby Kebbell Joins Vin Diesel’s ‘Bloodshot’ for Sony Pictures
In today’s film news roundup, Toby Kebbell joins Vin Diesel in “Bloodshot,” “Rockbarnes: The Emperor in You” gets a release, and Dana Brunetti unveils a new production company.CastingToby Kebbell will join Vin Diesel in “Bloodshot” for Sony Pictures in the role of Axe with principal photography starting in July.Eiza Gonzalez, Michael Sheen, Sam Heughan, Talulah…
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Video lame: has Hollywood’s warped relationship with gaming gone too far?
Studios are keener than ever to take a cut from this multibillion-dollar industry – but even the best games rarely inspire good filmsAs recent efforts – Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed, Warcraft – continue to show, video games rarely make great movies. If ever. Dwayne Johnson’s new epic Rampage might change all this, just as giant,…
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Bold Filmmaking Gives Mixed Results In ‘Mute’ & ‘Annihilation’ [Adjust Your Tracking Podcast]
It’s thrilling to see a bold work of genre filmmaking succeed, but depressing to see an equally ambitious picture fail so miserably.On this episode of Adjust Your Tracking, Joe and I find plenty of interlocking themes in two films that refract and overlap, with the aim of giving us something fresh. One is far more…
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Duncan Jones on ‘Mute’, Its Connection to ‘Moon’, Netflix vs. Theatrical, and ‘Warcraft 2′
Duncan Jones has been a pretty busy guy the last few years. His feature directorial debut Moon put him on the map back in 2009, then he stepped up to the mid-range budgeted Source Code for Summit Entertainment, and after that it was going full-blown studio blockbuster with Warcraft. But even while he was busy…
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‘Mute’ Director Duncan Jones on His Strange and Deranged Sci-fi Passion Project [Interview]
Writer-director Duncan Jones‘ new movie, Mute, has been a long time coming. “I’ve finally got this boulder up the hill,” he told us with a laugh and a sense of relief. The filmmaker behind Moon, Source Code, and Warcraft originally envisioned his bleak, surprisingly old-school sci-fi mystery as his directorial debut, but the project faced…
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Mute review – Duncan Jones’s sci-fi thriller is a Netflix disaster
The Moon director has delivered a catastrophically misjudged riff on Blade Runner with an astoundingly dull performance from Alexander SkårsgardIf one were to relax one’s eyes and stand very far away, the career of Duncan Jones might begin to resemble that of the young Hollywood savior he’s clearly angling to be. Like George Lucas before…