It was clear they blew the majority of the budget on Orcs, which is fine, but the whole movie suffered for it. He also came from small budget work, so for him using plastic 3D generated armor and pasting humans over terrible CG backgrounds made sense - but it made the movie look cheap and low budget. Right now the only thing that can really be said about another Warcraft movie is that its being lauded as a good idea since theres a lot more story left. It was obvious Duncan Jones had no clue about Warcraft - he allowed the creative team to do stupid shit like put Dalaran in the air to match WoW. For someone with no dog in the fight Im weirdly depressed by the news granted, this means Duncan Jones can get Moon 2 going. They needed at least one big-time actor, strong character actors, a stellar script and a director who craves this genre and isn't just a fake it to make it guy. It was a shocking confession of failure from the minds behind the most influential western MMORPG. They didn't bet big the way Marvel did on Ironman (with far more risk) or the way New Line bet their whole company on Lord of the Rings. Is there a warcraft 2 movie At Blizzcon 2019, in a simpler time, Blizzard outlined its plans to make World of Warcraft feel like an RPG again. Spending $300M was the bare absolute minimum, they could afford to lose it all. I put the blame squarely on Blizzard - they made $10B off this franchise. Giving it to a director completely unfamiliar with big-budget fantasy was another mistake. Can be used as content for research and analysis. It was a poorly made movie, with low-budget actors, effects and a rather boring story (which is a shame since they had so much to draw from and botched it all). Collected from the entire web and summarized to include only the most important parts of it. The revenues we saw in US and Europe were more inline with the drawing power of the movie in China. It was a gamble to 'trick' people into thinking it was a success and then generate buzz for people to come and generate real profit - but ultimately, people all over the world were simply not interested in the Warcraft movie.

China revenue was not real, mostly accounting shenanigans which are common in China because the studio owns its own theaters, so a common tactic is to sell itself all the unsold seats and report huge revenue (but almost no profit).