'Warcraft' China Box Office: Video Game Epic Probably Won't Beat 'Furious 7,' Despite Presale Record

"Warcraft" just snatched China's all-time midnight presales record from "Furious 7," and it's set to soar to the top of the country's box office as it opens this weekend on more screens than any other film has before. But the video game epic probably won't surpass the car-racing action flick. An estimated one-half of the globe's players of "World of Warcraft" -- the Activision Blizzard video game series on which the movie is based -- live in China, so their enthusiasm was key to setting that presales record. And through late Wednesday, "Warcraft" is off to a sizzling 46 million start in China. Although presales are generally a good proxy for how well a film will do there, the record 391 million haul pulled in by "Furious 7," the highest-grossing Hollywood movie ever in China, should be safe.