Posts Tagged ‘Video Games’
Posted by dominie in Films, Games, News on November 25th, 2008
Bloody Disgusting posted a link today to the new McG directed Terminator: Salvation poster from Warner Bros. which you can view at Yahoo! Movies. It’s unlike any poster I’ve ever seen. I don’t want to ruin it so click here for the international “online” one-sheet and teaser trailer for the upcoming release.
In related news, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Equity Games Production, and Halcyon Games announced today that there will be a Terminator: Salvation tie-in video game where you can role play as John Conner and blow up robots.
According to i09, “the video game is a third person shooter game where you are charged with building the resistance and fighting Skynet. Characters from the film will be inside the video game along with all of the new Skynet baddie bots, including the giant Harvesters.”
Terminator: Salvation arrives May 22, 2009.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on September 12th, 2008
Brittany Snow (Prom Night) has signed to be the lead in Senator Entertainment’s Clock Tower, a feature film (reported here) based on Capcom’s classic horror video game of the same name. The screenplay, penned by Eric Poppen (Borderland) is loosely based on all of the games and according to Bloody Disgusting, “concerns a young woman who receives a disturbing phone call from her estranged mother warning her not to come home. When she investigates, she uncovers a terrible supernatural truth from her past.”
Martin Weisz (The Hills Have Eyes 2) will direct the project, which begins lensing in Los Angeles come November. B-D scored the following casting breakdown for the film adaptation:
[DR. THOMAS BATES] is in his 40s – 50s and married, with a young daughter, he is a renowned psychiatrist who has finally given up a long stint in a maximum security psych ward for private practice. However, his new upscale patients are boring rather than challenging, and he jumps at the chance to dig his teeth into something more substantial. We later learn that Thomas, not unlike Alyssa, suffered a disturbing childhood, and lost his schizophrenic mother to suicide. As a young boy he had vowed to learn how to make the voices that plagued her go away. While he could not save his mother, he finds a chance to do something right in the life of Alyssa Hale…LEAD (9)
[ELEAZER BARROWS] 40s – 60s. He’s a grizzled man with a terrifying face in a long black robe, usually seen with an antique pair of shears, he is a fire ‘n’ brimstone preacher from the 17th century, responsible for the hanging of a great number of “witches.” He now makes his presence known to those remaining members of the Hale family, including Alyssa Hale and Chloe Bates…LEAD (6)
[SANDI BATES] is in her mid 30s – early 40s, wife of Thomas and mother to their six-year-old daughter, Sandi is a likable, nurturing woman, a furniture restorer who works out of the home. She’s happy to have her husband working regular hours with more sane patients, irritated and concerned when he takes such an interest in the case of a young woman at the hospital. Later, she becomes alarmed when it seems that Thomas may harm their little girl…LEAD (11) (more…)
Posted by dominie in Comics, Events, Films, Games, News on August 27th, 2008
In addition to the Dead Space EA video game and Dead Space: Downfall, both arriving in October, and the ongoing Image Comic series, Dead Space has launched their new website, NoKnownSurvivors.com.
The website will utilize all manners of storytelling and filmmaking from audio effects to the rapidly growing 3D animation techniques to serve fans with more Dead Space content. Over the next nine weeks, fans can immerse themselves into the world and follow every step of the process as the creators tell two tragic stories, Misplaced Affection, followed by 13.
Misplaced Affection follows “an organ replacement technician who falls hard for a capable female security officer. 13 is the “tale of a sleeper agent who makes the wrong decisions for the right reasons.” Each story is four chapters long, with new chapters going live every Monday.
Posted by bob in Comics, Games, News on August 23rd, 2008
Anchor Bay sent out the following release:
A holy relic has been discovered. And it doesn’t lead to Heaven…Meet Your Maker on DVD and Blu-ray Disc Oct. 28
Anchor Bay Entertainment and Electronic Arts present Dead Space: Downfall, the feature-length movie prequel to one of the hottest new video games of the year
BURBANK, Calif. (August 22, 2008) – Evidence of mankind’s creator also plays host to our worst nightmare, in Anchor Bay Entertainment’s October 28th DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases of Dead Space: Downfall. SRP for the DVD is $26.97, $34.98 for the Blu-ray. (more…)
Posted by bob in Films, Games, News on August 5th, 2008
An update has been released regarding the film version of the video game Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead assured Eurogamer work proceeds after a delay. “Roger Avary [Beowulf], the writer, had a commitment that was in line before working the Wolfenstein stuff, but I’ve recently been in contact with Roger and he’s actually working on the script right now.”
Avary is attached to write and direct the project should it receive a green light.
Hollenshead also told Shack News that “I’d like to do another Doom movie; I thought working with it was a blast. There are some lessons we learned. The best way to do things better is to get the experience.” Universal retains the film rights and has not made any noise about making a sequel given the original’s disappointing reception and box office performance.
Posted by bob in Films, News on August 1st, 2008
Disney announced that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has been shifted from 2009 to May 28, 2010. The video game adaptation is being directed by Mike Newell, the movie stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley and Gemma Arterton. As the summer 2010 calendar currently lays out, that puts it a week after Shrek the Fourth and a week prior to Thor.
Posted by bob in Games, News on July 31st, 2008
While waiting for the next Gears of War game or the feature film, you can settle back and enjoy the first of three novels set in that realm. DelRey has signed a deal with Epic Games and best-selling Star Wars novelist Karen Traviss has written the first book.
will go on sale October 28 followed a week or so later on November 7 when The Gears of War 2 video game for the Xbox 360 is on sale. (more…)
Posted by bob in Films, Games, News on July 25th, 2008
The recently announced big budget film version of Gears of War will now be produced by Legendary Pictures, the production firm riding high from the success of its most recent release, The Dark Knight.
Variety reports the Microsoft and Epic Games video game will be handled under Warner Bros.’ New Line banner where the deal was signed last year before it was folded into the parent firm. The 2009 anticipated release has now been moved to an indefinite date.
Len Wiseman is directing with Chris Morgan writing the script after a previous draft was submitted by screenwriter Stuart Beattie.
It’s the second videogame adaptation for Legendary, which is also developing a pic based on Blizzard Entertainment’s hugely successful “World of Warcraft.” In addition, Legendary topper Thomas Tull is a co-founder of videogame publisher Brash Entertainment.
Posted by bob in Games, News on July 23rd, 2008
Variety reports that a six-pack of horror folk have been contracted to produce laughs not chills for Microsoft’s Xbox 360. As part Microsoft’s Xbox Live initiative, producer and Peter Safran has brought on board James Wan (Saw), David Slade (30 Days of Night), Lucky McKee (The Woods), Andrew Douglas (The Amityville Horror), Marcus Nispel (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and James Gunn (Slither), billing them as “Masters of Horror Take on Comedy.”
The shorts will be previewed Friday at Comic-Con International before they can be streamed via the video game console now used by some 10 million subscribers. They are said to mix comedy and horror elements and will either be live action or animated.
Posted by bob in Films, Games, News on July 23rd, 2008
An online interactive game based on Screen Gems’ Quarantine has launched at http://www.containthetruth.com/ The film, a remake of the Spanish hit REC, opens October 10, but until then you can portray one of the film’s characters as they try to survive a tenement full of rabid residents.
