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Warcraft is a 2016 fantasy, adventure, and action film directed by Duncan Jones. The English-language movie was produced by Thomas Tull and Michael Morhaime, with production companies including Legendary Pictures, Blizzard Entertainment, Atlas Entertainment, and Tencent Pictures. Universal Pictures distributed the film, which was filmed in Vancouver. The cast includes Travis Fimmel, Dominic Cooper, Ben Foster, and Ben Schnetzer, portraying characters such as Grom Hellscream and Medivh in the narrative location of Azeroth.
The screenplay was written by Duncan Jones and Charles Leavitt, while Ramin Djawadi composed the music. Simon Duggan served as director of photography, and Paul Hirsch edited the film. With a runtime of 123 minutes, the movie has a budget of 160000000 and generated revenue of 433677183. Its tagline is "Two worlds. One home."
Audience reception varies across platforms, with an IMDb rating of 6.7 based on 295995 votes and a TMDb vote average of 6.403 from 7248 votes. The original motion picture soundtrack was released in 2016.
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6.4The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.
Cast
- Travis Fimmel as Commander Anduin Lothar
- Paula Patton as Garona Halforcen
- Ben Foster as Medivh (Guardian)
- Dominic Cooper as King Llane Wrynn
- Ben Schnetzer as Khadgar
- Toby Kebbell as Durotan / Antonidas
Themes
- elves
- dwarf
- magic
- betrayal
- king
- guardian
- based on video game
- wizard
- chieftain
- fictional language
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Duncan Jones
- Written by
- Charles Leavitt Duncan Jones
- Based on
- Warcraft , by Blizzard Entertainment
- Produced by
- Charles Roven Alex Gartner Thomas Tull Jon Jashni Stuart Fenegan
- Starring
- Travis Fimmel Paula Patton Ben Foster Dominic Cooper Toby Kebbell Ben Schnetzer Robert Kazinsky Daniel Wu
- Cinematography
- Simon Duggan
- Edited by
- Paul Hirsch
- Music by
- Ramin Djawadi
- Production companies
- Legendary Pictures Blizzard Entertainment Atlas Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- May 24, 2016 ( 2016-05-24 ) ( Le Grand Rex ) June 10, 2016 ( 2016-06-10 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 123 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $160 million
- Box office
- $439.1 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Warcraft (alternatively known as Warcraft: The Beginning) is a 2016 American action fantasy film based on the video game series of the same name. Directed by Duncan Jones, who co-wrote with Charles Leavitt, it stars Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, and Daniel Wu. The film follows Anduin Lothar of Stormwind and Durotan of the Frostwolf clan as heroes set on opposite sides of a growing war, as the warlock Gul'dan leads the Horde to invade Azeroth using a magic portal. Together, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war and restore peace.
The film was first announced in 2006 as a project partnership between Legendary Pictures and the game's developer, Blizzard Entertainment. Warcraft premiered in Paris on May 24, 2016, and was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on June 10, 2016. The film grossed $439 million worldwide against a production budget of $160 million, becoming the highest-grossing film based on a video game at the time. However, it failed to reach its break-even point of $450–500 million after global marketing and distribution. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, though fans of the Warcraft franchise were kinder to it.
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