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The Need for Speed movie may co-star Captain America’s Dominic Cooper, according to a piece on Variety which states the actor is in negotiations for the film.

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DreamWorks has acquired the film rights to EA’s Need for Speed and the firm plans to release it during 2014. EA will produce the film with John Gatins and Mark Sourianmad Act of Valor’s Scott Waugh will direct it. Production will start next year.

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D3Publisher has announced an agreement with DreamWorks Animation which will see the firm taking over development of studio’s next three films: Madagascar 3, The Croods, and Rise of the Guardians. Previously, THQ was on board to develop, but announced last week it was leaving the kids’ licensed business. The first title to be released, Madagascar 3: The Video Game, will hit shelves alongside the movie’s release in theaters. Rise of the Guardians is to be released during the holidays and The Croods during spring 2013. Thanks, Gamasutra.

A Halo movie with the involvement of Steven Spielberg is set for a release in 2012, according to a French press kit for the latest Halo book, Cryptum,

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One of Hollywood’s most well known movie producers is now joining the game publisher that’s pretty successful on its own with mainstream audiences. Zynga announced today that Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of Dreamworks Animation, has joined Zynga’s board of directors.

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DreamWorks has began negotiations for a new videogame licensing deal which will last until 2011.

The news was revealed during a conference call after the company’s Q2 financial metting by CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg.

DreamWork’s deal with Activision expires next summer, and it has a contract with THQ to make a single game, which is based on next year’s Oobermind – after which it will be without a games partner.

According to the financial reveal, a $24 million benefit was logged during Q1 due to an amended contract with Activison, which must provide extra payments for games based on previous DreamWorks films.

Without the Activision deal, DreamWorks’ revenue would have been $108 million (24 percent), and net income would have fallen by a third to about $17.1 million.

More through LA Times, GI.biz.