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The co-director of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Brian Taylor, will be both writing and directing a Twisted Metal movie. It's being produced by super nerds Avi and Ari Arad. More »
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I got excited in 2008 when news hit somebody was making a game based on Tad Williams' Otherland series of books. That game never turned up. Since it was an MMO, I am already over it, and now excited all over again because Otherland is being turned into very expensive motion pictures instead. More »
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The Resident Evil movies make money. That's why Hollywood keeps on making them. That's why there's the upcoming (and Sony hardware-filled) Resident Evil: Retribution. You can bet that, unless nobody sees Retribution, there's going to be another one. More »
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The BioShock movie isn't happening. Blame the special effects, blame the water, blame Hollywood. Whatever. It's Dead. More »
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The original Tomb Raider movies were over-the-top and comic bookish. Since the game is being rebooted, the movies are, too. Don't expect Angelina Jolie! The 2013 Tomb Raider flick is Jolie-free. More »
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That is, if they make the damn thing. Education game Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? was turned into a TV show during the 1990s, and Hollywood once planned to have Sandra Bullock as thief Carmen. More »
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Never mind that director Sam Raimi said not to expect the Warcraft movie anytime soon, actress Michelle Morrow is. She once again underscores her desire to be in the flick. More »
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Earlier this year, Obsidian and Square Enix released Dungeon Siege III. The game had a big reveal trailer involving a raven flying towards the camera then exploding into a bunch of other ravens. More »
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Last night in Los Angeles, Bethesda threw a superstar shindig for its superstar game—The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. More »
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Last month, it was reported that Sony and Ubisoft will soon sign an Assassin's Creed movie deal. From the sound of it, this is no normal movie deal. More »
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Never mind that 47-year-old actor Brad Pitt is married to Angelina Jolie, star of the Tomb Raider movies, the Hollywood actor is apparently worried that their children are playing too many games. More »
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Variety reported on Wednesday that Sony Pictures and Ubisoft were in talks to make an Assassin's Creed movie. Turns out Sony's already registered 16 domains for such a picture, making this seem like a done deal. More »
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So says a white guy, but stay with me. Hollywood is on the prowl, turning Japanese manga and anime into movies. And yet the star factory, once again, cannot find a Japanese person to find a Japanese character. More »
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You might think it's not every day that a Hollywood star shoots behind-the-scenes footage with a cell phone. You must not read Milla Jovovich's Twitter, because that's exactly what she's been doing. More »
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And it's not Red Dead Redemption. Christian Cantamessa, who designed and co-wrote the wonderful Red Dead Redemption, is going Hollywood. More »
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British actor Clive Owen is a badass. A man's man. He's got a deep voice, a heavy face, and is usually in movies where he kills things, or is at least around things being killed. More »
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As Claudia Wolf, Carrie-Anne Moss is very much playing an evil character in the upcoming Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. It's the big screen adaptation of the Konami game Silent Hill 3. More »
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Just in time for everyone who has stopped playing FarmVille, Hollywood is working on a cinematic version of FarmVille. More »
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Real Steel, that new Hugh Jackman flick with fighting robots, is set in a near future, dominated by battling bots. More preciously, the movie is set in 2020. More »
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Milla Jovovich, in her role as wife of the director of lead publicist for the Resident Evil movie franchise, just confirmed that Leon Kennedy will make a live-action debut in the next RE film, where he will be played by something called Johann Urb. More »
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Looks like director Kevin Tancharoen's actually going to get to make that Mortal Kombat movie he pitched to Warner Bros. The director of Mortal Kombat Rebirth and the web series it spawned, Mortal Kombat Legacy, is getting his very own stab at a feature film. More »
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Answering questions that they didn't have time to answer during Comic-Con a few months back, the producers of the upcoming Mass Effect movie have posted a few bits of extra info on the project on the website of film company Legendary Pictures. More »
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The press room on the last day of the Tokyo Game Show was dead. I spent the afternoon in there, finishing up some stories and just when I was leaving, I spotted a slick Mercedes Benz. I stopped, pulled out my camera and got ready to snap off a quick photo to send to my car crazy son. More »
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When not playing old video games, Shinya Arino is cracking jokes on Japanese variety shows. And when he's not doing that, he's doing other things, like commenting on Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. More »
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Ben Affleck is in negotiations to star in thriller Line of Sight, which will be produced by legendary action flick producer Joel Silver. Okay, so far, so good. The movie follows an elite group of commandos transporting cargo and dealing with a global threat. That's kind of vanilla, but maybe they'll make it work. More »
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Some video game movies are...OK. Most are terrible. Why is that? Allow a guy who makes video game movies for a living (try and) explain. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5830232&view=rss&microfeed=true Actress Milla Jovovich is starring in the fifth RE flick, Resident Evil: Retribution. Paul W.S. Anderson is writing and directing. The film is slated for September 2012 and will take place in Toronto and Tokyo. [Bloody Disgusting] More »
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Nintendo made one live action movie, the Super Mario Bros. flick. It sucked. That isn't stopping Zelda designer Eiji Aonuma from fantasizing about making an epic motion picture with everyone's favorite green-hatted hero. More »
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As we know, 1993's Super Mario Bros. movie went through a few different scripts (and entire concepts) before it hit the silver screen. More »
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Bobby Kotick's cameo in Moneyball, even after it was confirmed by Activision, remained quite the WTF mystery of June. Why was he appearing as the Oakland A's owner in a sports flick? Did he know Brad Pitt? Did he know the director? Was this some hint at a Call of Duty movie? More »
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Lollipop Chainsaw, the up-and-coming zombie killing cheerleader game, is being designed by Japanese game developer Grasshopper Manufacture of No More Heroes fame. It's being written by a guy from St. Louis. More »
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We get it. You want Nathan Fillion to play the part of Nathan Drake in the Uncharted movie. Sony knows it, we know it, Fillion knows it. He knows it so intimately, in fact, he'd like you to stop being so crazy about it. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5824701&view=rss&microfeed=true The new man in charge of the Hollywood adaptation of PS3 game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Neil Burger, says he's starting the film over from scratch, "going back to the videogame." His choice for Drake is still undecided. [Crave Online] More »
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The Mario movie we ended up with in 1993 was nothing like the games it was based on. An earlier draft for the film, however, was a lot more faithful. More »
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You may not know his name, but you've played his games. Jerry O'Flaherty made his name as Gears of War's Art Director. He also co-founded Ion Storm and worked on Daikatana. Next up, a movie! More »
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The high score battle between Donkey Kong pros Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell was immortalized in 2007's The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. And for the past four years, there's been talk of that movie being remade, further fictionalized in a film adaptation of a film. More »
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The House of Blue Leaves fight scene in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1 is one of the most gruesome scenes in the entire picture. When it was released in the U.S., the scene was in black and white to tone down violence. When it was released in Japan, the scene was in living color featuring shots cut from the American release, under the assumption that Japanese audiences and censors could handle it. More »
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We've been spared director David O. Russell's unique vision for Naughty Dog's Uncharted series, but Sony is reportedly soldiering on with an all-new director and writer for the silver screen adaptation of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune—Neil Burger. Who? More »
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Hollywood studio Legendary Pictures will be holding its first ever "standalone panel" at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. Why do we care? Because they'll be talking about the Mass Effect movie, that's why. More »
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Set photos already provided a look at the upcoming Hollywood movie's carnival backdrop. Here is an assortment of set pics with movie producer Don Carmody. More »
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