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Lionsgate Is Making A Movie Based On The Dead Island Trailer

3:00AM September 28, 2011 | Mike Fahey

It doesn’t get any more official than an announcement from Lionsgate motion picture group president Joe Drake; there will be a Dead Island movie, and it sounds like it will be the first major motion picture based on a video game trailer. More »


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If Anyone Needs Me I’ll Be Growing And Selling Pot On Facebook

7:20AM August 30, 2011 | Mike Fahey

While there are several Facebook games that involve growing and distributing marijuana, only one is the official game of the Showtime original series Weeds. It’s OK to grow and sell pot when Mary Louise Parker is involved! More »


Gamer Movie Review: More Second Life Than Counter-Strike

1:00AM September 10, 2009 | Brian Crecente

In the movie Gamer, people control real people in a living third-person shooter, guiding them through a war-torn hell created for the pay-per-view enjoyment of a staggering worldwide audience. More »


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Quick, Someone Go Squat on MadMenTheGame.Com

7:00AM April 5, 2009 | Owen Good

Trademark filings are sort of like optioning a book to Hollywood – the deal’s been done, but it doesn’t mean the movie/game will come to pass. Let’s hope it stays that way for “Mad Men.”

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Lionsgate Sees Wii Movie Streaming In The Near Future

3:20AM March 13, 2009 | Mike Fahey

A top executive for Canadian film and television distributor Lionsgate thinks that the Nintendo Wii could be streaming movies by the end of this year.

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Saw Coming To Consoles (Please No, NOOOOO!)

5:40AM January 31, 2008 | Mark Wilson

The first Saw movie was decent, until you realized that a tiny little clown puppet was supposed to be killing people, and then later, you realise that (SPOILER ALERT!!!!) some decrepit cancer patient is somehow setting up all these traps. And then the series gave up on any intelligence in lieu of more red dye and corn starch mixtures.

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