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System_Crush · Nov 23, 2007, 08:38 PM // 20:38

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Originally Posted by lakatz

Hi Koa and SC...
Anet wouldn't make the film themselves. NCSoft (probably since ANet is wholly owned by NCSoft) would strike a deal with a production company (just like Blizzard did with Legendary Pictures) that would strike a deal with a distribution company to get the financing, and in the main and end credits you would see a series of different entities responsible for bringing the film to you... just like you do in most films today.

Well I didn't specifically meant to insinuate that Anet would be payrolling the actors.
It's about the type of financiers Anet could attract and what type of production companies this would open up to them.
So what I was saying is:
"It's not how much money you have...
It's who wants to know you, because of how much money you have."

lakatz · Nov 23, 2007, 09:35 PM // 21:35

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Originally Posted by System_Crush

Well I didn't specifically meant to insinuate that Anet would be payrolling the actors.
It's about the type of financiers Anet could attract and what type of production companies this would open up to them.
So what I was saying is:
"It's not how much money you have...
It's who wants to know you, because of how much money you have."

Excellent point SC. Yes, I imagine one of the big selling point when Blizzard was pitching WoW to film production companies was the gross sales. AND the gross sales for the entire Warcraft franchise might have come into play in Legendary's decision to make a Warcraft film rather than a WoW film.

Your point earlier about low budget films was also very good. It's interesting what can happen with a 'small' film. El Mariachi is a legendary example... one of the most exciting filmmaking stories ever told. Robert Rodriquez had a (production) budget of $7K, and he had to stay in budget because the $7K was his own money... and it was all he had. He made the film with the intention of taking it straight to the Hispanic video market. On the way there though (to the Hispanic video market), he entered it in some film festivals where execs from Columbia Pictures saw it and without hesitation bought the rights to it. They then tacked on a modest print and advertising budget and distributed it. In it's first weekend out, the box office gross was $313K. The historic domestic box office gross, which was achieved within a scant few months, is $2MM. The initial weekend's gross is a mere 15.3% of that total domestic gross. That means the word of mouth on this film was phenomenal... and it was... because the film is indeed excellent.

I was there at Columbia when this 'little' film came into our universe. I saw it, and I experienced the excitement that swept through the studio... and it was exciting. The legend is true. P&A budgets are proprietary information, and, although I heard it from a highly reliable source, I only know what it was rumored to be, and I don't repeat rumors

. Please see this page on IMDb to further understand the lack of availability of film cost information. Suffice it to say that the domestic gross put the film far into the black and was more than most expected. Additionally, the success of El Mariachi opened the door for other low-budget films such as The Blair Witch Project and several others to receive major distribution deals.

If you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend it. FYI, Netflix has it available as a double disk with the sequel, Desperado.

Assyrian · Nov 25, 2007, 06:38 PM // 18:38

/signed

i would love to see a guildwars movie
hopefully they do it, i personally think it would be amazing

Darkhell153 · Nov 25, 2007, 06:46 PM // 18:46

Here are the options with the movie:

1. Make it animated which will draw kids below the ages of 10 into the game and make the older player's lives miserable.
2. Make it non-animated human roled movie, which will draw nobody in because gw's plotline sucks.
3. Just give up on making the movie and make something that will actually advertise to a large market (clothing, hats, camping equipment, commercial advertising, etc.)
4. Forget about gw and think of ways to pump money into gw 2 production so we can get back on track (actually if gw 2 has a good ending and conclusion I won't be playing it anymore, once something's ended I normally don't go back to it xD)

Dante the Warlord · Nov 25, 2007, 07:45 PM // 19:45

No offense or anything... but comon, i bet that most ppl have NEVER heard of guildwars. Its definitely not as popular as WoW and even if it was released, i doubt it would make much money. I would personally like to see one such movie come out, but i doubt it will suceed