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The mobile gaming tie-in to Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 launched on the iTunes App Store last week and is #1 among free apps in 45 countries. Created with SF-based studio Kabam, it’s also the #1 overall game in 69 countries, the top racing game in 112 countries, and the #1 action game in 85 countries. Its iPad app version runs comparable if even wider in saturation as the top free app in 81 countries. By contrast, Paramount‘s Star Trek: The Game — tied to the release of Star Trek Into Darkness — stayed in-house and it’s doing lousy since it came out last month. According to VG Chartz, unit sales in its first three weeks are only 140K to date across PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 consoles. It’s also considered a failure because it’s very buggy despite years of development. Critics and users alike gave it poor reviews. So what happened?
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A Tale Of Two Movie Tie-In Games: ‘Star Trek’ Flops, ‘Fast & Furious 6′ Tops
CAA Video Game Co-Head Jumps To UTA
EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing that CAA’s top video game agent has just informed the tenpercentery that he’s heading for rival UTA. Ophir Lupu is one of the video game industry’s top agents and co-head of the video game department at Creative Artists … Read More »
Supreme Court To Review FCC Indecency Policy, Strikes Down California Vidgame Law
The Supreme Court said today that it will take up the FCC’s request to hear arguments about how much authority the agency has to police indecent programming. A lower court had shot down two FCC enforcement actions — that infamous … Read More »
Weinstein Company Forms TWC Games Unit
NEW YORK, NY (March 25, 2011) — The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today a new initiative in the video game space by launching TWC Games. The TWC Games label will utilize The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films’ strong and recognizable properties, and work with external partners to develop and
Disney Interactive Restructure Costing Jobs
UPDATE: The Propaganda closure is just part of a quiet reduction in workforce at Disney Interactive. The unit has also cut a number of console jobs at Junction Point Studios in Austin, bringing the total number of jobs nixed to around 200, or 29% of the … Read More »
WGA Awards Videogame Writing Nominees
Deadline doesn’t cover the videogame industry, but since it’s the WGA giving out the nominations as part of its guild awards, here goes:
Los Angeles and New York – The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement
David O Russell To Direct Movie Version Of Vidgame ‘Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune’
David O Russell has signed on with Sony Pictures Entertainment to rewrite and direct a movie based on the PlayStation 3 game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Russell, who last directed Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale in The Fighter, takes on a … Read More »
MPAA Lobbies Supreme Court Against Schwarzenegger’s Ban On Selling Or Renting Violent Video Games To Minors
The MPAA is leading the charge on behalf of showbiz guilds against California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2005 California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. The lobbying group for Hollywood studios is urging the Supreme Court to uphold … Read More »
‘Green Lantern’ Scribe Lights The Way Into Comics For Other Screenwriters
Green Lantern co-writer Marc Guggenheim is at Comic-Con today. He’s launching Collider Entertainment, a partnership with Alisa Tager that is designed to create properties that start out as comics and then springboard onto other media platforms. Guggenheim and Tager have … Read More »
Electronic Arts Game ‘Mass Effect’ In Film Deal to Legendary Pictures
Legendary Pictures has announced a movie rights deal for Mass Effect, the Electronic Arts/BioWare videogame for Xbox 360 that will be co-financed and distributed by Warner Bros. Mark Protosevich, who adapted Marvel Entertainment’s Thor, is in talks to write the script. … Read More »
Fox Sights Director For ‘Hitman’ Sequel; Will Timothy Olyphant Return?
20th Century Fox has Spanish helmer Daniel Benmayor in the crosshairs to direct Hitman 2. Will original star Timothy Olyphant return? That is unclear at this point, but Benmayor will make his Hollywood debut on the sequel to the film based … Read More »
Movie Deal In Forecast For PlayStation 3 Serial Killer Game ‘Heavy Rain’
EXCLUSIVE: An auction of screen rights for the PlayStation3 game Heavy Rain is coming to a close. I’m told a deal is near with Unique Features, the film shingle started by Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne after they exited New Line.
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Sony, Happy Madison Playing With Viral Sensation ‘Pixels’
Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison are in early talks to develop a movie based on Patrick Jean’s video-game themed sci-fi invasion video Pixels, which has become a viral sensation. No deal yet at Columbia, but Happy Madison bought the rights to Jean’s work and Adam Sandler’s company is a fixture … Read More »
Gollum Goes Into Performance Capture Biz
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Serkis, who’s pulling on his latex suit again for The Hobbit, has gone into the performance capture business himself. The Imaginarium is the UK’s first performance capture studio. Serkis wants Imaginarium to provide live avatars at rock concerts or the ballet, not just movies and commercials. He’s already … Read More »
UK Games Developers Set For Buying Spree
The same thing happened with the UK’s TV industry when the government introduced legislation helping producers to keep programmes. There was a wave of City-financed takeovers and consolidation. I predict the same thing’s going to happen with the UK games sector. Reliance Big Entertainment, the Indian media group which invested … Read More »
Island Def Jam SVP Film, TV & Soundtracks
(April 12th, 2010 – New York, NY) Jonathan McHugh has been appointed Senior Vice President of Film, TV & Soundtracks, Island Def Jam Music Group, it was announced today by Steve Bartels, President & COO, Island Def Jam Music Group. McHugh will seek to create opportunities for the IDJ
UK Finally Gives Tax Break To Videogames
From Deadline|London editor Tim Adler: The amount spent on developing UK videogames could increase by almost 10% a year, now that the government’s announced the incentive. The new tax break should be up-and-running this time next year. I predicted back in August that the UK government was going … Read More »
Now Warner Bros Hops On iPad Bandwagon
Sherlock Holmes was just released this past Tuesday in Blu-Ray and DVD. So a Warner Bros press statement asks: “Why not download it from iTunes for your iPad? Why not also play the game designed for the device? Sherlock Holmes: Mysteries … Read More »
Uni’s MMOG Deal For ‘Battlestar Galactica’
Universal City, March 9, 2010 – The global market leader in browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG), Bigpoint, (http://www.bigpoint.com/) will be demonstrating the next generation of client-free PC gaming at Game Developers Conference 2010. Leading its product slate for 2010
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