Metal Gear Solid movie confirmed

Metal Gear Solid looks set to follow in the footsteps of Tomb Raider, and, er, Super Mario Bros. and Hitman, in becoming yet another video game to be ported over to the silver screen…

Kevin Smith: My Favourite Game

The provocateur filmmaker spoke to our pals at Edge magazine about his favourite videogame of all time…

Ghost Rider’s Bryan Taylor to direct videogame adaptation Twisted Metal

Crank and Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance co-director Bryan Taylor has been hired to write and direct a movie adaptation of the video game Twisted Metal.

The Sony game series has eight instalments to its name, and is defined as a “vehicle combat game”, in which various players fight to win Calypso’s Twisted Metal Tournament…

Child’s Play videogame progressing

Rumours of a new instalment in the Child’s Play franchise have been tantalising gore geeks for years, but unfortunately nothing’s actually materialised.
 
But fear not horror fans, there’s some good news on the horizon… Chucky is hitting the small screen in the form of a new video game.
 
According to developers TikGames, the game will see players controlling our favourite Good Guys doll allowing them to “use his full repertoire of stealth and guile to dispatch victims in a multitude of distinctive methods.”

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Is the Halo movie back on?

Has the Halo movie finally fought its way out of development hell?
 
Information included in a French press release for a book based on the videogame suggests a movie is planned for release in 2012 and is being made in cooperation with some major names.
 
“A film adaptation is set in 2012. It will be conducted jointly by two heavyweights of American cinema: Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks,” says the press release for Halo: Cryptum, after a little translation.

So, is it happening?

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50 Worst Movie Adaptations

50. The Golden Compass (2007)

The Adaptation: About A Boy director Chris Weitz is given the reins to this expensive gamble from Warner Bros, as they attempt to birth a new fantasy franchise using Philip Pullman’s stellar trilogy.

What They Got Most Wrong: Gone are the allegories and religious undertones, instead we get a hodgepodge of action sequences. No wonder it sank like a brick.

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40 Videogames That Need Movies

38. Perfect Dark

The Game: Special agent Joanna Dark unravels a conspiracy involving rival institute dataDyne. While firing a gun and kicking lots of booty.

Movie Version: We’ve yet to find a big screen female spy to match Bond in the movie franchise stakes, but Joanna Dark could be the one. Plonk Jennifer Garner in the role, map out a smart origins story, and a franchise is born – not to mention a kick-ass film heroine.

Directed By: Joss Whedon – nobody can write women like him. Perfect Dark needs him.

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Milla Jovovich reveals Resident Evil 5 plot and casting

Milla Jovovich has been busy on Twitter. The Resident Evil 5 actress has been updating her fans - and therefore the world - about what to expect from the fifth videogame movie.  
 
Resident Evil: Retribution is currently shooting in Canada and if Jovovich is to be believed writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson is making good on his promise to incorporate fan-feedback into the project.
 
So, what do we know?

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Ben Affleck keen on Line Of Sight?

Should first-shooters be left to the videogame industry?

Ben Affleck scopes out an innovative new action thriller…

Microsoft reveals droid-themed Xbox 360 bundle for Star Wars Kinect

Is this the console you’re looking for?

Neil Burger discusses his take on Uncharted film adaptation

Director Neil Burger has spoken out for the first time about taking on the movie adaptation of popular video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.

The director took the reins on the project when David O Russell’s approach to the film was scrapped by the studio. Now, Burger is “basically writing it from scratch”.

“We’re rewriting it,” the Limitless director says, “and I’m just jumping in right now to do it. The deal really has just closed, so it’s very, very new. I’m basically writing it from scratch.

“So, it’s a ways off, but it’s very exciting to have something that could be a franchise. I like it, and I like that it’s a bit different from a lot of the science fiction stuff that’s out there. I like that it’s a classic, great adventure.”