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 Send to email | Video Games Make Lousy Movies. Expect To See Plenty More Of Them in GETTWO |  By Silicon
el 12-May-2008 |
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 Video game movies have a terrible, and well-deserved, reputation. So why does Hollywood keep making them? Because some of them make money.
On Friday, Universal (GE) signed a deal with Take-Two (TTWO) to make a movie based on Bioshock, which came out in August and has sold more than 2 million copies. The movie will be directed by Gore Verbinski, of Pirates of the Caribbean fame. If he can take a theme park ride and make it box office gold, maybe he can do the same with a video game.
It's not a terrible idea, which is why Hollywood has been doing it for quite a while. No one's arguing that any of the video game movies were robbed of their rightful Oscars for Best Pictures. But we're talking about show business here, and there's reasonably solid business logic underlying these projects: By basing a movie on a game, Hollywood has a product that's:
1) Pre-marketed: Everyone who's bought or played the game will be a much easier sell.
2) Pre-marketed to the right audience: The video game audience is exactly the same audience that Hollywood is most intent on luring to theaters -- in part because they've been leaving the theaters to play video games.
That said, just slapping a video game title on a crappy movie doesn't ensure success: It just means you have a crappy movie. Then again, we haven't seen any good movies with Freddie Prinze Jr. So maybe Wing Commander could have worked with a different cast
Video game movies released since 1998 (international box office gross from boxofficemojo.com):
1. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001): $274,703,340
2. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003): $156,505,388
3. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007): $147,717,833
4. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004): $129,394,835
5. Resident Evil (2002): $102,441,078
6. Hitman (2008): $99,611,509
7. Silent Hill (2006): $97,607,453
8. Final Fantasy (2001): $85,131,830
9. Doom (2005): $55,987,321
10. House of The Dead (2003): $13,818,181
11. In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008): $11,820,292
12. Wing Commander (1999): $11,578,059
13. Alone In The Dark (2005): $8,191,971
14. DOA: Dead or Alive (2002): $7,500,497
15. BloodRayne (2005): $3,650,275
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| Brett Ratner Wants To Make Video Game Movies, Too [Hollywood] | | Move over Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski. Rush Hour franchise helmer Brett Ratner wants to make movies based on video games, too! His interest seems piqued after working on a few ad-type spots for Activision's Guitar Hero. According to Ratner:
The games business is much more exciting than the movie business right now. I will be doing mo [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-May-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Brett RatnerGore VerbinskiHollywoodNews
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| Stan Lee Says Sometimes Games Look Better Than Movies [Comic Con] | | Let's jump right in. Here's Spider-Man creator Stan Lee talking about video games at Comic Con: When you talk about games evolving over the years and becoming more like movies, in many ways, they've gone beyond movies," he said. "To do a movie is difficult, but it's linear. There's a beg [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Jul-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Comic Con Coolness News Spider-man Stan Lee
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| Lego Batman Cartoon In The Works [LEGO BATMAN] | | Batman has been the subject of plenty of cartoons over the years. There have been cartoons based on the comics, cartoons based on the movies, so why not cartoons based on a Batman video game? Speaking to GI.biz at the Games Convention last week, Traveller's Tales producer [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Aug-2008 by Mike Fahey in LEGO BATMAN Cartoon News traveller's tales Warner Bros.
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| Where'd All the In-Game Color Go? [Game Design] | | While some people argue that what games need is more monotony, at least in terms of black and white games, plenty of people are dissatisfied with the current trend of drabness in developers' color palettes. Of course, there are plenty of brightly colored games that are and will continue [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Jun-2008 by Maggie Greene in Game design Color Graphics Industry Market
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