Fox and Electronic Arts are coming together to turn “Spore” into an animated film. Chris Wedge of ‘Ice Age’ fame will be directing the CGI film. ‘Princess and the Frog’ writers Greg Erb and Jason Oremland will be writing the script for the film based on the Will Wright game. Wedge told Variety, “I’m always …
There is nothing wrong with a movie whose sole purpose is to explode things in a dramatic fashion. However, Xavier Gens’ movie ‘Hitman,’ takes things to a rather unreasonable extreme. Based on a video game, (and adding fuel to the ‘there’s never been a good movie based on a video game fire,’) ‘Hitman,’ tells the …
iD Software CEO Todd Hollenshead has expressed interest in producing another Doom film. The CEO told video game blog Kotaku that he’d love to do another Doom movie, “There are some lessons we learned. The best way to do things better is to get the experience.”
Say what you will, Nintendo = profits. The recent release of ‘Super Smash Bros. Brawl” for the Wii console has pushed the Video Game industry 57%, or, $1.8 million for the month of March. ‘Smash Bros.’ sold to 31% of the consoles install base. At 2.7 million copies sold, it’s the biggest first month since …
Netflix. If one were to look it up in the dictionary, they might find a definition reading something like this: