Castlevania also getting Hollywood treatment as video games movie firm gets $200m in financing
Everyone’s favourite little muncher Pac-Man is coming to the big screen in a new movie role – from a company that’s just received a whopping $200m financial boost.
According to Variety, Steven Paul's banner Crystal Sky Pictures has inked a $200 million theatrical slate financing deal with Don Starr's Grosvenor Park.
The deal covers five films, including an adaptation of Konami’s Castlevania. A co-production with Universal's Rogue Pictures, the film has been written by Paul Anderson (Resident Evil) and directed by Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard).
Other titles being made with the cash injection include a sequel to John Woo’s Hard Boiled – the movie which spawned Midway’s Stranglehold – and, amazingly, a cinema outing for Pac-Man.
"This financing is helping us in our expansion plans to greenlight films more quickly," said Paul. "We're now one of the few companies to have a big budget with which to develop our slate."
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Crystal Sky previously produced Bratz, based on the toy franchise, with Lionsgate, and Ghost Rider with Columbia Pictures – which became a game published by 2K.
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This has got to be a joke...
this is stupid, i mean seriously who would ever go and watch a castlevania movie???
Yay for pacman, i hope they get good writers for it.
*joking* :D
Re: This has got to be a joke...
I just read an interview with the producer who said that the Pac-Man movie will be "an artistic statement the likes of which has never been seen". In it he pitches the man-against-the-odds (PacMan) against the evil guardians of society's inhumanity (represented by the ghosts), who suppress the citizens of Pacland while creaming off their material wealth (dots). I'm also intrigued by the promise of lots of artfully shot "love scenes" (Ms PacMan co-stars) and Scarface-style drugs bust-ups (power-up pills).
Re: This has got to be a joke...
(< . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (8{
*munch* *munch* "Oh noes... A ghost"
- End
Re: This has got to be a joke...
@2: you had me at "artistic" lol
Castlevania,Tekken,Pac-Man
CASTLEVANIA,TEKKEN AND PAC-MAN.
Crystal Sky Pictures will be working on the Castlevania movie with Resident Evil director Paul WS Anderson to write the script and Sylvain White to direct,
Pac-Man no bloody way mate,garbage just garbage I don't think Pac-Man will work on the big screen that well.
Tekken is now in post production and there will be some visual effects and the film is set in the future.
Tekken will be release in 2009.
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AUSTRALIA.
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