Comments on: Video Games and Hollywood: Hook-Ups Gone Wrong http://blog.spout.com/2008/07/10/video-games-and-hollywood-hook-ups-gone-wrong/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:01:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Motorokr http://blog.spout.com/2008/07/10/video-games-and-hollywood-hook-ups-gone-wrong/#comment-110372 Motorokr Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:05:54 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=3326#comment-110372 I was wondering when someone was going to make a column for this! Awesome! I remember the ET game! It wasn't THAAT bad, but then again I was 5.... I was wondering when someone was going to make a column for this! Awesome! I remember the ET game! It wasn’t THAAT bad, but then again I was 5….

]]> By: Comic Con Rumour Control: Aronosky on Robocop, Ratner on God of War, Proyas off Silver Surfer (Flix99.com) http://blog.spout.com/2008/07/10/video-games-and-hollywood-hook-ups-gone-wrong/#comment-108910 Comic Con Rumour Control: Aronosky on Robocop, Ratner on God of War, Proyas off Silver Surfer (Flix99.com) Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:15:22 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=3326#comment-108910 [...] more on this, just turn to your friendly neighborhood SpoutBlog!] 5:59 - “Kevin Smith and Judd Apatow, you [...] [...] more on this, just turn to your friendly neighborhood SpoutBlog!] 5:59 - “Kevin Smith and Judd Apatow, you [...]

]]> By: Ryan Stewart http://blog.spout.com/2008/07/10/video-games-and-hollywood-hook-ups-gone-wrong/#comment-108189 Ryan Stewart Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:27:11 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=3326#comment-108189 Good column. I recently interviewed Uwe Boll and he had some interesting stuff to say about licensing game titles to make movies and vice versa -- the game makers are also now asking him to come up with movie ideas they can make games out of. It's an interesting business model. Good column. I recently interviewed Uwe Boll and he had some interesting stuff to say about licensing game titles to make movies and vice versa — the game makers are also now asking him to come up with movie ideas they can make games out of. It’s an interesting business model.

]]> By: scottym http://blog.spout.com/2008/07/10/video-games-and-hollywood-hook-ups-gone-wrong/#comment-108179 scottym Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:00:02 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=3326#comment-108179 No discussion of film video games gone wrong is complete without a mention of ET: The Extra Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 back in 1982. This was a game so bad that hundreds of thousands of little plastic cartridges were allegedly mass executed and buried in a shallow grave somewhere in New Mexico, a location that's now the videogame equivalent of a Superfund site. And this was the movie that brought us Reese's Pieces! No discussion of film video games gone wrong is complete without a mention of ET: The Extra Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 back in 1982. This was a game so bad that hundreds of thousands of little plastic cartridges were allegedly mass executed and buried in a shallow grave somewhere in New Mexico, a location that’s now the videogame equivalent of a Superfund site.

And this was the movie that brought us Reese’s Pieces!

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