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Castlevania Movie Dying, Spyhunter Movie Dead
1:20PM Luke Plunkett | News from Hollywood here, kids, and the news is good. In an interview with IGN, movie producer Paul W.S. Anderson has revealed that not only is the Castlevania movie stalled, but Spyhunter is stalled and then some. More »
King Of Fighters Movie Sounds Like A Disaster-In-Waiting
1:40PM Luke Plunkett | To refresh: Gordon Chan is directing a King of Fighters movie. Previously, details were scant, but today, details on the flick have surfaced. We wish they’d remained scant. More »
Do Games Really Qualify As ‘Escapist’?
3:00AM Maggie Greene | Ian Bogost and his students have a new project underway looking at the intersection of journalism and games; their new blog is full of interesting stuff. More »
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Street Fighter: The (Sucky) Movie Gets A Blu-Ray Release
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Is there a market out there that needs/wants to stare intently at high-definition renditions of Kylie Minogue’s butt cheeks, Jean Claude’s chest cheeks and Raul Julia’s…cheeks to the extent we need Street Fighter released on Blu-Ray? We’d like to think there isn’t, and that the release of the forgettable, regrettable 90’s tie-in is just part of Capcom’s hype machine for Street Fighter IV (the disc is packed with “bonus” SFIV promo material), but these days, you never can tell. It’ll be out on February 10, just in time to coincide with the console release of SFIV and the theatrical release of the Chun-Li movie. Street Fighter: Extreme Edition on Blu-Ray [Capcom] More »
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Universal Buys Rights To EA’s Dante’s Inferno
5:00PM Luke Plunkett | What a world we live in. Universal Pictures have bought the rights to make a movie based on EA’s Dante’s Inferno. And they’ve bought them for a “seven-figure sum”. Bear in mind, this is a game that hasn’t even been announced yet. The project will be overseen by EA movies-and-comic books guy President David O’Brien, as well as Jonathan Knight (from the gaming side of things), and both game and movie will involve – wait for it – “a journey through the depths of hell” More »
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Gears (The Movie) Sticking Close To Gears (The Game)
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | When Hollywood adapts a property for the big screen – be it a book, comic or game – they can often take a few…liberties with the source material. Take the Mario Bros. movie, for example. The upcoming Gears of War movie, however, will be doing no such thing, with the film’s screenwriter Chris Morgan telling MTV that the film will be sticking to the men and events of the game pretty closely. More »
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3D Realms Now Big Fans Of The Ol’ Max Payne Movie
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | It was Monday we heard 3D Realms boss Scott Miller hating on the Max Payne movie. Monday of this week. Now it’s Thursday, and what do we see, but 3D Realms boss Scott Miller being totally in love with the Max Payne movie. “To be clear, I’m proud of this film” he told Edge. More »
More Halo ‘Movie’ Concept Art
1:40PM Luke Plunkett | Last week, we got our first look at some concept art for a second Halo movie project currently doing the rounds in Hollywood. The drawings – by artist Kasra Farahani – are depicting some of the key scenes from writer Stuart Beattie’s (Pirates of the Caribbean, GI Joe) screenplay, which in turn is based on the events in the novel Fall of Reach. We were promised that last week’s image was the first of five, and this week, film site Latino Review obliges, with a second picture, this time showing the kids (including Master “John” Chief) being put through their paces by some UNSC instructors. Wide pics screw up the front page, so the full version’s after the jump. More »
BioShock Movie Staying Faithul To Source, Won’t Star Kate Hudson
1:40PM Luke Plunkett | PHEW. Speaking with VG247 at the Develop conference in Brighton (fun fact: I used to live in neighbouring Seaford), BioShock creator Ken Levine has told everyone to relax. The upcoming BioShock movie project is staying faithful to the source: You’re always going to be worried that in that first meeting they’re going to be, like, ‘OK, it’s Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey on a desert island hunting for pirate treasure,’ but it’s not going to go that way My expectation at this time, from everything that I’ve heard, is that it will very much honour the dramatic and thematic elements of the game… They certainly understand the material and are able to provide a stamp of their own. Thank goodness for that. But, now you mention it, that wouldn’t be the worst Uncharted movie… BioShock movie won’t be “Kate Hudson hunting for pirate treasure,” says Levine [VG247] More »
