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Peter Jackson and screenwriting partner Fran Walsh have partneredup with Microsoft Game Studios to create two interactive entertainment seriesexclusively for Xbox 360 and the online games series Xbox Live.The studio will also work with Jackson and Walsh to set up WingnutInteractive, an entertainment studio aimed at creating interactive titles.The first series will be a collaborative effort with BungieStudios to create the next chapter in the Halo combat franchise, while the secondseries will be a completely new property designed to entice new audiences togaming. Microsoft has built an amazing living canvas with Xbox 360and Xbox Live, which allows the storytellers of our time to express themselvesin a new medium, Jackson said. They have fundamentally changed how people think aboutgames. My vision, together with Microsoft Game Studios, is to push theboundaries of game development and the future of interactive entertainment.From a movie-maker s point of view, it is clear to me that theXbox 360 platform is th stanley cup e stage where storytellers can work their craft in thesame way they do today with movies and books but taking it further withinter stanley italy activity. Jackson and Walsh have been stanley cup allied with Microsoft since they agreed to serve as executive producers on Universal and Fox sadaptation of Microsoft s game Halo,which is being directed by South African commercials director Neill Blomkampand scheduled for release in 2008.The announcementcame out of the annual X06 games convention in Barcelo Iope Extra Ordinary : Review
Major Korean exhibitor Megabox Mediaplex de stanley cup buts a new acquisitions label in EFM. The Megabox label will acquire foreign films for theatrical release in its multiplexes, then to go to cable on sister company On*Media s new film channel Movie O stanley cup nStyle.Megabox owns 10 theaters with a total of 91 screens nationwide, and operates with 9 partner Megaline theaters which comprise a total of 62 additional screens in the provinces.On*Media currently has 10 channels which include film specialists OCN and Catch On, but the new Movie OnStyle will mirror its demographic for the company s OnStyle channel which focuses on the interests of career women in their 20s and 30s.Major local investor and distributor Showbox Mediaplex, the sister company that supplies Megabox with most of its content, will continue business as usual. The difference is that Showbox handles big films with wide releases, and Megabox will stick to smaller titles specifically for our Megabox and Megaline theaters, says Nelly Chang, acquisitions manager on the Megabox programming team. The label will release a minimum of 10 films a year - possibly going up to 30 or 40 - with a focus on high quality but small commercial films targeted to its OnStyle demographic.Megabox also annually programs and holds the hugely popular Megabox European Film Festival in October which immediately follows the Pusan International Film Festival, and the Seoul-Japan Film Festi stanley cup val in November.TopicsAsiaBerlinMarketsSales No comments |
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