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04.08.12

It looks like the $18 million James Cameron invested into the 3D conversion of his Oscar-winning Titanic was money well spent. The director spent time meticulously going over every frame of the film to convert it to 3D. And the movie opened with $25.7 million in the U.S. and an additional $35.5 million in 84 foreign territories. Cameron talks about Titanic and 3D in the video below.

03.26.12

Even when a game gets optioned by Hollywood, there’s no guarantee that it will ever make it to the big screen. Developer Irrational Games is finding that out the hard way with BioShock. Universal Pictures and Gore Verbinski (The Lone Ranger) were originally on board to turn 2K Games’ bestselling game franchise into a big screen movie. But he dropped out and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) stepped in to write and direct the big screen adaptation. But now Fresnadillo has exited the project to develop “other stuff.” BioShock creator Ken Levine, who is working on BioShock Infinite, talks about Hollywood adaptations in the video interview below.

03.13.12

Looking for a different type of March madness? Konami Digital Entertainment has launched a full month of interactive horror with Silent Hill Downpour for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The new game expands on the exploration theme of the franchise both design-wise and through psychological torture, ambient story, horrific enemies and self-evaluative questions of despair. Check out the video below to see what that means in gaming terms.

03.02.12

There’s no question we’re on a fever pitch for the new Marvel’s The Avengers film.  How could you not be?  Between Robert Downey Jr. doing his slick Iron Man thing, Samuel L. Jackson playing the baddest Nick Fury on the planet, and the return of the Hulk (and not the Ed Norton Hulk), it’s crazy how much anticipation is going into it.  Which leads us to wonder…why is there not an Avengers video game that ties in with the film?

03.01.12

With the heat building for the official kickoff of the summer movie season – Marvel’s The Avengers – gamers won’t have a console game to play. But Marvel Entertainment and Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG) have debuted a social game based on Marvel’s iconic characters, Marvel: Avengers Alliance. Developed by Playdom, Marvel: Avengers Alliance features a tactical turn-based combat experience with dozens of familiar Marvel Super Heroes and Super Villains. Though it's not based on the franchise movie, it is better than nothing.

02.13.12

Twihards were in the mood for love before Valentine’s Day. Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company, has continued to make a mint off Stephanie Meyer’s last book in the supernatural love triangle franchise. It was a very smart decision to split the final film into two parts, as the home entertainment release is picking up right where the theatrical release left off. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1 sold an estimated 3.2 million DVD and Blu-ray units during its first weekend of release. Actress Ashley Greene talks about the movie in this exclusive video interview below.

01.21.12

Star Wars' popularity remains at an all-time high 35 years after the initial film's original release, with millions of fans still clamoring for the original adventures -- and a few for the prequel trilogy that started in 1999.  That popularity continues today with Star Wars Kinect heading towards release, and a 3D version of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace hitting theaters next month.  But leave it to a man named Casey Pugh to release a project that shows just how devoted fans are to the series, with a remarkable project that's just as watchable as the Star Wars films itself.

01.02.12

Director and writer Paul Anderson has wrapped principal photography for his second 3D videogame adaptation, Resident Evil: Retribution, according to his wife and star of the Sony Screen Gems film franchise, Milla Jovovich. With the movie set hit theaters September 14, 2014, Jovovich provided an exclusive look at the set of the new movie in the cool video below.

01.01.12

Here we are, 2012, and already we're seeing a bunch of movie trailers indicating upcoming projects that will be in 3D.  Disney has already confirmed that Marvel's The Avengers will be in that format; the upcoming Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance from Sony will benefit from the third dimension; and remakes of Titanic and Beauty and the Beast will soon hit theaters with the 3D touch.  But perhaps the biggest title to use the format arrives next month, when Star Wars officially steps into the 3D realm with a re-release of Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

12.24.11

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is experiencing record sales for Rockstar Studios’ critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham City this Christmas season. And the new trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ The Dark Knight Rises has smashed the record for most combined downloads through the iTunes Movie Trailers site and the iTunes Trailers iOS app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The trailer was viewed more than 12.5 million times in its first 24 hours on December 19, breaking the previous record by well over two million. The HD trailer can be viewed below.

12.20.11

There’s never been a better time for Gleeks. The new season of “Glee” has righted its ship after a rocky start, and now there’s a new Konami Karaoke Revolution: Glee Volume 3 game for Wii on store shelves. Complementing the third Wii game is Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Glee: The Concert Movie 3D Blu-ray. The new movie introduces Shazam technology, which connects your PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Blu-ray, or DVD player to your smartphone.

12.14.11

Transformers fans still have the Blu-ray 3D release of Transformers: Dark of the Moon to look forward to. But next year, they’ll get a brand new chapter in the Hasbro toy mythology. Michael Bay’s future with the movie franchise remains up in the air, but the High Moon Studios remains in control of the game world. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron takes fans through the final, darkest hours of the civil war between the Autobots and Decepticons as they fight for control of their dying planet, ultimately leading to their storied exodus from home.

12.05.11

Zen Studios has been on a roll in 2011, with the release of several pinball tables for both Zen Pinball and Pinball FX 2, namely the Marvel Pinball tables.  But this holiday season, it's continuing to build on its reputation by releasing a quartet of new tables.  Coming next week, Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue will give you four more reasons to flip out -- and for moderately cheap.

11.26.11

Legendary Entertainment (The Dark Knight Rises) is developing several videogame projects, including WarCraft based on Blizzard Entertainment’s game franchise and Mass Effect based on BioWare’s franchise. The producers of the Mass Effect movie were at San Diego Comic-Con this year. They didn’t have time to answer all of the fan questions at the panel, so they posted the below questions on their Web site. Filmmakers are working with Mass Effect creator Casey Hudson on the project, which is being written by Mark Protosevich (Thor).

11.24.11

Paramount Digital Entertainment has taken a unique approach with its new Facebook game, Mission: Impossible The Game. Developer Funtactix has created a very deep multiplayer online experience for fans of the film franchise that boasts 200 levels. The game currently available focuses on the first three films in the franchise and a new level based on Ghost Protocol will be launching in December before the new Tom Cruise movie from Paramount Pictures opens. Sam Glassenberg, CEO of Funtactix, talks about this new project in this exclusive interview.

11.10.11

Chinese online game company ZQGame has partnered with Los Angeles-based SEE Games to create, co-invest in, and publish an original MMO (massively multiplayer online) game based on Sony Pictures Entertainment’s 2012 summer event film, Total Recall (2012), starring Colin Farrell. The deal represents the first time a Hollywood entity has partnered with a game company from China to develop an online game in-full.

11.09.11

There's an overabundance of dancing/rhythm games to choose from on the Kinect this holiday season, and it's vitally important to pick the right one, lest your party turn into a forgettable affair.  For that, we can't recommend Dance Central 2 enough.  It gets everything just right.  Meanwhile, 505 Games' Grease Dance, based on the hit film/play of the same name, can't manage to find that beat.  Not even with Greased Lightning.

11.07.11

Movies based on popular video games are usually a crapshoot.  We say this because of the history of most of these films, though a couple, like the original Mortal Kombat, have escaped unscathed.  But the future isn't looking too rosy, mainly because of the argument of who should retain control of the rights and production.  So we've decided to take a look at all sides and see what the best way to go is.  It sounds like the upcoming film adaptation of Assassin's Creed needs it.

11.05.11

Fans of Assassin’s Creed have more than Ubisoft's Revelations to look forward to on November 15th. There’s a feature film in the works from Sony Pictures based on the original game. And now one of the main characters from the franchise is getting his own TV show. Starz Entertainment has greenlit a new original adventure series titled “Da Vinci’s Demons,” developed and produced by BBC Worldwide Productions. Written by David S. Goyer, co-writer of blockbuster and critically-acclaimed films Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and writer of the highly anticipated Man of Steel, the eight-episode series is scheduled to begin production in early 2012.

11.03.11

VIZ Media, the largest distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, will release a new anime feature-length film, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, on DVD November 8th. The movie is based on the highly popular Professor Layton series of video games for the Nintendo DS. The DVD features both subtitled and dubbed English dialogue options.

10.28.11

NEVERDIE Studios, creators of the ROCKtropia Virtual World, a sophisticated, next-gen, cash prize-based game world with mythology drawn from pop culture, has launched a unique, in-game event for players of its recently released massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, Hunt The Thing. This new movie-length MMO event is inspired by Universal Pictures’ current thriller The Thing, now in theatres nationwide. The game was developed using Crytek’s CryENGINE2 technology.

10.08.11

It’s been a long, hard road for Grimlock when it comes to video games.  In fact, barring an appearance as a playable character in a Flash game for the Hasbro website, we haven’t really seen the Dinobot get any sort of video game respect.  But that’ll change by this time next year, as Activision has announced that full details for the upcoming sequel Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will be coming to the November issue of Game Informer.  And one thing we know for sure – Grimlock will be a featured character.

10.03.11

When it aired a few years ago on Fox, Arrested Development was quite simply the best comedy show on television, with its over-the-top characters (Gob is the man!), ridiculous scenarios and dead-pan humor.  And when it went away, we got all sad.  However, news is now spreading like wildfire that the Bluth family will return to TV one more time, before setting down the path for the highly anticipated movie.

09.23.11

Trekkers have a lot to look forward to all of a sudden in the gaming space. There’s the new Star Trek game coming out from Paramount Pictures Interactive Entertainment and developer Digital Extremes in 2012, which is set in the new movie universe. And for those who want to go retro, there’s Star Trek: Infinite Space. The new free-to-play, browser-based game is set in the Deep Space Nine universe, which also correlates with Star Trek: The Next Generation. Gameforge talks about the new game from developer Keen Games, which focuses on epic space battles, in this exclusive video interview below.