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Hollywood Director Has Ideas On How To Make Better Video Games

James McTeigue must be an interesting man to talk video games with, seeing as he’s had experience both directing movies (V For Vendetta) and working in the games business. So it’s nice reading this interview with him on GI.biz, where amongst talk of video game movies and video games based on movies, he offers a tip for the game developers of the world.


Thailand’s Fake Iron Man 3 Trailer Sure Is Something Else

Iron Man 3 is a big budget Hollywood production. What do you do when you want to recreate the movie’s trailer and don’t want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars? Something like this, I guess.


This Wreck-It Ralph Character Looks Just Like… A Real Japanese Popstar

Wreck-It Ralph recently opened in Japan, where it’s titled Sugar Rush. Besides enjoying the flick, Japanese moviegoers are doing something else: Comparing the character Vanellope to a real idol.


One Piece Characters Look Very, Very Familiar

What do Michael Jackson, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ghandi all have in common? They apparently look like One Piece characters, that’s what.


What This Mass Effect Writer Thinks Hollywood Should Do For That Movie

Studio heads, directors and agents haven’t been knocking down Drew Karpyshyn’s door. The man who was one of the Mass Effect universe’s chief architects knows that Hollywood will be looking elsewhere for the talent that will power the upcoming film adaptation. But Karpyshyn headed up the writing for the first Mass Effect game and part of the secon. And he’s got some free advice to offer to the folks who’ll be trying to bring the Krogan, Asari and Salarians to silver screen.


Another Hollywood Director Wants To Make A Half-Life Movie

Fede Alvarez, the 35-year-old Uruguayan (and director of Panic Attack) who has been given the keys to the Evil Dead remake, has bigger ambitions than just reworking somebody else’s old movie. Speaking with Yahoo!, Alvarez says his dream project would be to make a Half-Life movie.


Life In The Movie Business: An Inside Look At The VFX Crisis

There is no doubt that the visual effects (VFX) crisis affecting the film industry right now is going to have an enormous impact on how movies are made in the future. We’re just not sure how long it’s going to take and what that solution looks like just yet. Here’s an insight into the problems plaguing the film industry, what life is like as a VFX artist, and the Oscars controversy that pushed the whole thing over the edge.


For $25,000, You Can Have Your Own Giant RoboCop Killing Machine

This is, as close as we can get in 2013 anyway, a real version of RoboCop’s famous ED-209. It’s reportedly an actual Hollywood prop, built for RoboCop 2, and stands ten-feet tall.


For Reasons Unknown, Hollywood Thinks Another Hitman Movie Is A Good Idea

You may remember the Hitman movie. It only came out in 2007. That’s enough time to have passed for Hollywood to have decided it’s time for another one, and this time, according to Deadline, it’s going to be a reboot.


You’ve Never Heard Of The Guy Writing The Assassin’s Creed Movie

The Assassin’s Creed movie has a writer, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and that writer is Michael Lesslie. You’ve probably never heard of him.


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