Hollywood Courting the Gaming Industry

beatleadam writes "In a trend that we all seem to already be hyper-aware of... 'The video game industry was once an afterthought in Hollywood, at most an ancillary source of revenue like action figures. The people passionately developing the computer-based form of entertainment were seen as dorks compared with the celebrities. Not anymore. Now that games have matured into a $11 billion business, topping movie box-office sales and siphoning television viewers, the lucrative and increasingly influential genre has attracted more star power than ever.'" We did another story about this a month ago.

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zork?

[justforaday]

when are they gonna make a movie based on zork? and i'm not talking fancy graphics or effects or anything. i wanna see huge text printed up on screen for two hours...

Courting?

[SpaceCadetTrav]

More like absorbing.

Re:Courting?

[Total_Wimp]

Yeah, we need some more boring, crappy games based on movies and boring, crappy movies based on games so people will get jaded about the games and the industry will go into recession like it did post-Atari. Then maybe the people that are in it for the glitz instead of the games will go find something else to do.

What would we have gotten if Atari had continued to dominate back-in-the-day? More Atari 2600 Pac-Man probably. That brief recession allowed us to get the NES. Cool upgrade, eh? But,now we're getting yet another stupid James Bond game on PS-2. It needs to die so people will at least try to reinvent gaming into something better instead of continuing to push hollywoodfied, star-studded crap.

TW

"and siphoning television viewers"

[Black Parrot]

Sounds like a threat to our precious bodily fluids!

Thank God...

[darth_MALL]

Now Bruce Campbell and Mark Hamill will get the recognition they sorely deserve.

Hey,

[xenostar]

as long as they don't have games starring Bette Midler and/or Whopie Goldberg, i'm fine with that.

Yes!!! Leisure Suit Larry...

[FerretFrottage]

coming (naughty, don't go there) to a theater near you, staring Pee-Wee Herman has LSL

Does this mean we'll get to see

[Anonymous Coward]

Counter-Strike: The Motion Picture?

Of course if they play the movie too loud in the theater the next movie over will accuse it of wallhacking.

bull$hit

[The Lynxpro]

"In a trend that we all seem to already be hyper-aware of... 'The video game industry was once an afterthought in Hollywood, at most an ancillary source of revenue like action figures. The people passionately developing the computer-based form of entertainment were seen as dorks compared with the celebrities. Not anymore. Now that games have matured into a $11 billion business, topping movie box-office sales and siphoning television viewers, the lucrative and increasingly influential genre has attracted more star power than ever.'"

Does anyone not know the history of the videogame industry on Slashdot? Try 1976. That was the year Warner Communications (think Warner Bros. Pictures) purchased Atari, Inc. By the early 1982, Atari accounted for 3/4's of Warner's profits. So in your analysis, you are 22 years off on the video game industry's importance to Hollywood.