Category Archives: Movies

Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn has said filmmakers should focus on the story of humanity’s search for a place in the galaxy, which much more intrinsic to what the franchise is than, say, Tali or Garrus. Don’t shoot the messenger.

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Halo may be turned into a movie yet, as acclaimed District 9 director Neill Blomkamp has expressed interest in helming the project, but only if he is given total creative control.

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Mircrosoft has published the final nominees for its fan-voted Xbox Entertainment Awards. The competition – which suffered a security breach early on – includes a shortlist made up of Halo 4, The Walking Dead, Far Cry 3 and more.

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Sony has issued its weekly video update blog, which will see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Mass Effect: Paragon Lost and others added to PSN.

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Evil Dead remake director Fede Alvarez is keen to tckle the adventures of Gordon Freeman, according to a Yahoo Movies report. “I really want to make a Half-Life movie at some point – but I’d heard it was impossible because Spielberg wanted to make it. That’s definitely one that I’ve always dreamed of making into a movie though,” the Panic Attack creator said. It looks like JJ Abrams has pipped him at the post, though.

Thanks, Kotaku.

GK Films has teamed up with MGM for its upcoming Tomb Raider movie, which was announced in early March. According to The Hollywood Reporter, GK Films founder Graham King will produce, and although no casting decisions have been made, development will begin immediately.

Thanks, StrategyInformer.

Sony has published details of this week’s PSN video update for Europe and Australia. Daniel Craig’s return as Bond in Skyfall is top billing, with Rise of the Guardians and some bollocks about crocodiles following.

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Just a little blip out of BioWare’s PAX East panel: Mass Effect series executive producer Casey Hudson made a brief mention of the upcoming Legendary Pictures film adaptation.

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Borderlands will be turned into an animated short film as part of a collaboration between 2K Games, Gearbox Software and students at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

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Sony has revealed this week’s PSN video store update, which adds the gurning sneer of Karl Urban’s Dredd and the shonky game adaptation Silent Hill: Revelation into the mix.

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First Showing reports series director Paul W.S. Anderson and star Milla Jovovich have both been confirmed for the new Resident Evil film, currently languishing without a subtitle under the codename Resident Evil 6. It’s expected to tie up the events of the last two films, forming a second trilogy. Shooting will begin in northern autumn, and special effects will be handled by long-time Anderson collaborator Mr X.

Thanks, Bloody Disgusting.

Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, the anime movie detailing the adventures of Mass Effect 3 squaddie James Vega, is out now in the UK. That is the end of the news, but the BioWare Blog is offering a Reinforcements Pack for Mass Effect 3′s multiplayer to the first 200 UK fans to send in a photograph of themselves holding the newly-released film.

The R-rated Bioshock film was all set to go at Universal with Gore Verbinski at the helm. Then the similarly adult big-budget think piece Watchmen came out and didn’t dominate the box office they way they had hoped. That left Irrational head Ken Levine with a choice to make.

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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn is being released as a rather neat Blu-Ray and DVD bundle, releasing May 27.

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Sam Raimi has said Blizzard is at least partially to blame for his decision to give up directing the upcoming Warcraft movie.

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A Resident Evil 6 film is in the early stages at Sony Pictures and Screen Gems, but at present, neither Milla Jovovich nor Paul W.S. Anderson have been confirmed. The last film in the series, Resident Evil: Retribution, grossed $221 million worldwide. The film is slated to hit theaters September 12, 2014, so there’s still quite a ways to go before it hits cinemas. Thanks, MCV.

Tomb Raider is to get a new movie courtesy of GK Films. The flick will be based on Crystal Dyanmics’ reboot, and the studio will also have a hand in the film’s production.

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The Deus Ex: Human Defiance trademark which popped up earlier this week is, as suspected, for the movie based on the franchise and not a new game in the series. The correlation was figured out by Superannuation, after a domain registration filed by CBS Films popped up online. The movie will feature a cyberpunk setting according to filmmaker C. Robert Cargill, and is based on 2011′s Human Revolution.

PS4 will feature Sony’s 4K movie service at some point. However, film downloads could hit the 100GB mark. Ouch.

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From Bedrooms to Billions, the indie film telling the story of the UK games industry by filmmakers Anthony Caulfield and Nicola Caulfield, has landed on Kickstarter.

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