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07.03.11
Johnny Depp’s Fourth Pirates of the Caribbean Flick Earns $1 Billion Box Office Booty

Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow remains a huge box office draw overseas. Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films' Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has sailed past the $1 billion global box office mark and is still bringing in the treasure. The 3D movie has grossed $233.7 million domestically and $774 million internationally for a global pirate’s booty of $1,007,703,000. While Disney Interactive Studios canceled its Pirates of the Caribbean role-playing game video game tie-in to the new movie, the game publisher did release LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean to take advantage of the global sensation.

05.30.11
Big Games of E3 2011: Disney Universe Unites Disney Movie Heroes in New Multiplayer Adventure
Disney Interactive Studios is crossing movie universes once again, but this isn’t the next Kingdom Hearts game. Disney Universe, a fast-paced multiplayer action adventure game, is currently in development for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and PC/Mac. Players will experience non-stop action through a mix-up of worlds inspired by both animated and live action films from Disney, including titles from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures. Players will suit-up as iconic Disney and Disney•Pixar characters and embark on adventures to power up their hero, battle powerful adversaries and master challenging puzzles to save the universe. Sure to be one of the big games of E3 2011 in Los Angeles, Disney Universe will ship this fall across platforms.
05.27.11
Big Games of 2011: American McGee Returns to an Unreal Wonderland
Acclaimed videogame creator American McGee is returning to Wonderland with the help of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3. Electronic Arts is publishing the long-awaited sequel and one of the big games of 2011, Alice: Madness Returns, across PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. McGee’s Shanghai-based Spicy Horse, which is the largest Western game development studio in China, is bringing this universe to life using UE3. McGee has worked with this engine over the past few years on episodic game projects like Grimm, which added a twisted take to classic faerie tales. McGee talks about the new game in this exclusive video interview.
05.12.11
Big Games of 2011: Electronic Arts Serves Up More Alice for June 14 Launch
Electronic and American McGee’s Spicy Horse game studio are serving up incentives for gamers to buy one of the big games of 2011. Alice: Madness Returns, a dark and deranged action-adventure video game that fans have been anticipating for over a decade, is coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Gamers who pre-order the title at GameStop, Amazon.com, or EAStore.com will receive a bonus digital download of the game’s stunning original soundtrack with nine full songs plus an all-new track by Chris Vrenna, formerly of Nine Inch Nails. American McGee talks about the new game at the Tokyo Game Show.
09.25.10
Tokyo Game Show 2010: American McGee Returns to the Madness of Alice

SHANGHAI -- Gaming visionary American McGee returns to Wonderland as EA and Spicy Horse Games announce Alice: Madness Returns, the dark and deranged sequel to the year 2000 PC hit, American McGee’s Alice. McGee talks about the much-anticipated sequel in this exclusive video interview near his Shanghai game studio Spicy Horse.

09.10.10
Milla Jovovich Explains Why Resident Evil's Alice Connects with Gamers
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Actress Milla Jovovich returns to movie theaters with "Resident Evil: Afterlife," the fourth installment of the successful video game-to-film horror franchise -- only this time she is in 3D. Jovovich, who met her husband director/producer/writer Paul W.S. Anderson on the set of 2002's original "Resident Evil," teams with him again for the latest film in which her character, Alice, helps save survivors of a virus that has ravaged Earth and turned some people into zombies and other creatures. At the recent Comic-Con pop culture convention in San Diego, the model-turned-actress spoke to Reuters about what makes the "Resident Evil" movies successful and the challenges of kicking zombie butts in 3D.
05.06.10
Game Creator American McGee Goes Portable with Crooked House

The level designer behind some of the best shooters of all time, including Doom II and Quake II, has spent the past decade adding his unique spin on classic stories like Alice in Wonderland (American McGee’s Alice), Grimm’s Faerie Tales (American McGee’s Grimm) and now American McGee’s Crooked House. The senior game director at Shanghai-based Spicy Horse talks about his latest game and chimes in on episodic gaming and 3D stereo gaming in this exclusive interview.

03.14.10
Director Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland Earns Over $208.6 Million

Moviegoers continued to flock to Tim Burton’s 3D take on Alice in Wonderland over the weekend. The movie raked in over $62 million, bringing the global total to over $208.6 million. Alice is now Burton and Johnny Depp’s biggest collaboration ever. Depp plays The Mad Hatter in the new movie adaptation based on Lewis Carrol’s original novel. Burton, who also worked with Disney Interactive Studios on the Wii and NIntendo DS videogame,  took some time at Comic-Con to talk about his first 3D movie in this Reuters interview.