WARCRAFT Movie
Warcraft (2016):
Legendary Pictures' WARCRAFT, a 3D epic adventure of world-colliding conflict based upon Blizzard Entertainment's globally-renowned universe, is directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) and is written by Charles Leavitt and rewritten by Duncan Jones. The producers are Charles Roven, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Alex Gartner. Stuart Fenegan, Jillian Share and Brent O'Connor serve as executive producers. Blizzard's Chris Metzen co-produces. (C) Universal
Rating: PG-13 (for extended sequences of intense fantasy violence)
Genre: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Duncan Jones
Written By: Charles Leavitt, Duncan Jones
In Theaters: Jun 10, 2016 Limited
Runtime: 1 hr. 40 min.
Universal Pictures
This year's BlizzCon event was full of exciting news for World of Warcraft, including a trailer for the upcoming movie and the announcement of a release time frame for the game's sixth expansion pack, Legion. But just days before BlizzCon started, the news for Blizzard's massively multiplayer role-playing game looked much more grim. The developer revealed that the game was down to 5.5 million subscribers, its lowest number since 2005, and that it would no longer be sharing subscription numbers at all.
Is it all so bad as it looks? We spoke with World of Warcraft executive producer J Allen Brack during BlizzCon, and he called the issue of subscriptions "a difficult problem."
"One of the problems that we have as a team and that I think the community has as well is this perception that there's a direct relationship between the number that we announce and the health of that community, and the health of that business," Brack said. "That's not really true. I wouldn't say that World of Warcraft is necessarily half as successful now as in previous times."
