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Dredge, the 2023 indie Lovecraftian fishing title from Black Salt Games that took the gaming world by storm, is set to become the next live-action Hollywood adaptation. The New Zealand-based game company is teaming up with production company Story Kitchen to bring the creepy game to life.

Dredge, the indie adventure game released in 2023 that paired Lovecraftian horror with video gaming’s ultimate activity, fishing, is being developed as a live-action movie, producers of the adaptation announced Tuesday. Working with Dredge developer Black Salt Games to make the film a reality is production company Story Kitchen, which was co-founded by Sonic the Hedgehog movie producer and dj2 Entertainment founder Dmitri M. Johnson.

Koji Kondo joined Nintendo in 1984 and ended up composing basically every memorable theme from the Mario or Zelda series. The legendary composer had a particularly wild idea for a stage effect in last year's Super Mario Bros Wonder, and while that idea was rejected, it did end up giving Kondo the opportunity to bring his voice to the game.

Star Wars fans are busy speculating about the first trailer for The Acolyte – and they have a theory about one character in particular. 

is being rebooted as a new live-action movie series.

Rise of the Ronin is out for PS5 as an exclusive next week, which means Sony has given it the usual flashy launch trailer treatment, blending live-action footage with cutscenes taken from the game. Clocking in at exactly one minute, you can check the trailer out above ahead of the 22nd March 2024 release date.

Lilo & Stitch will soon be surfing back onto our screens. A live-action remake of the 2002 Disney animated classic is in the works, and among the cast is Billy Magnussen as Pleakley, the neurotic, nervous alien who is sent to Earth to help capture escaped experiment Stitch. 

James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Universe hasn’t even had its first release, but that hasn’t stopped the studio from announcing new additions. The Teen Titans are the latest heroes getting their own live-action movie in the DCU, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

With development starting way back in 2015, Team Ninja’s action RPG Rise of the Ronin is finally slated to hit the PlayStation 5 on March 22. Just over a week from launch, a new one-minute trailer has been released, blending live-action sequences with the title’s impressive animation.

Watch Dogs, Ubisoft's open-world sci-fi hacker series, is reportedly the latest in an ever-growing list of video games getting the live-action movie treatment, with Talk to Me actor Sophie Wilde said to be in talks to star.

As video game adaptations continue to ramp up, it looks like Watch Dogs will be one of the next titles to get the treatment.

Capcom has confirmed that yes, the sizzling meat in Dragon's Dogma 2 is real.

Now that Dragon's Dogma 2 is right around the corner, we're starting to get a much better picture of what the game will include. From all the pre-release footage we've seen so far, we've been given brief glimpses at some terrifying monsters and impressive spell-slinging, but one thing that has stood out among all of that is the game's visually stunning cooking cutscenes.

has grown quite a bit this morning, as four more stars have signed on to the HBO television adaptation of the critically acclaimed video game series.

The release date and poster for Netflix's live-action adaptation of Parasyte have just been announced. However, fans are not as excited as initially expected.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director has credited an unlikely live-action Disney remake for inspiring the team's work on reimagining the classic 1997 JRPG.

Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, American Born Chinese)will write and direct Lionsgate’s long-gestating live-action movie based on Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto.

Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender is just a couple of days away, but there’s more Avatar coming, in case you forgot. The creators of the original series and Legend of Korra, Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino, are hard at work on a new sequel film series following the characters of the original show, along with a few other projects that are still in the works.

Welcome to Pandora. After yesterday’s teaser, the live-action Borderlands has released its first trailer and it looks like one heck of a ride, for better or worse. 

After years of hints and developments, we’ve finally gotten our first look at the live-action Borderlands. People has revealed two pictures of the upcoming film, due to release in August.

A new preview for the video game movie adaptation has been released ahead of the upcoming trailer.

The live-action version of Sokka in Avatar: The Last Airbender is still the character "we know and love" according to actor Ian Ousley – amid fan backlash to the perceived changes from the Nickelodeon cartoon in the upcoming Netflix series.

We are now in the doldrums of February; it’s still kinda chilly, the days aren’t quite long enough yet, and the Valentine’s candy sales are down to the dregs.

The first set photos from the production of Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the iconic 2002 animated movie have finally arrived online.

Star Wars Jedi actor Cameron Monaghan said he is open to portraying series protagonist Cal Kestis in a live-action setting, as long as it furthers "the story or the character in some way".

Cal Kestis actor Cameron Monaghan has spoken about whether he would be interested in taking his Star Wars character into live action after portraying him in two Star Wars Jedi games.

If you’re a fan of the Star Wars Jedi franchise, then you might have been keen on seeing some of these characters pop up in a live-action series or movie. After all, Star Wars has had a strong lineup of live-action shows since the recent trilogy wrapped. Fortunately, the main protagonist in the series, Cal Kestis, could appear in a live-action series with the same actor who portrays him in the video games.

Star Wars Jedi actor Cameron Monaghan says he’d like to reprise his role as Cal Kestis in a live-action Star Wars project, but only if it “makes sense”.

The Knuckles live-action series will premiere on Paramount+ on April 26, Paramount Pictures announced. It will consist of six episodes all released simultaneously, and is set between the events of the movies Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

A planned live-action adaptation of MMO Final Fantasy XIV is officially “dead”, according to the TV series’ producers. A combination of the pandemic and the “size and scale needed to do it right” are apparently to blame, with Amazon reportedly coming closest to making it a reality - but to no avail.

With just a week away from releasing, a new live-action trailer for the game is out, teasing some hilarious chaos featuring a few famous faces.

As with many major video game launches these days, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has received a live-action trailer. It stars actors Will Arnett and Ron Funches alongside director Jodi Hill as they play the Suicide Squad and act as the “good guys.” Sort of. Check it out below.

Cygames has released a new trailer for the upcoming Granblue Fantasy: Relink, this time around focused squarely at the Japanese market. The trailer, airing on Japanese TV, is a live action ad for the upcoming action RPG.  The ad features actor Takumi Kitamura grabbing a sword floating in the sky. Kitamura then leads a big group of companions into the world of Granblue Fantasy. Check it out below.

Cygames has released a new live-action commercial for Granblue Fantasy: Relink, which began airing across Japanese television today.

If you thought the idea of a live-action Final Fantasy XIV series sounded like a massive undertaking, you’d be right. One of the executive producers, Dinesh Shamdasani of Hivemind Entertainment, recently confirmed that the project has been canceled. 

The Final Fantasy XIV live-action television series first announced back in 2019 is «dead,» according to the production company that was working on it. Hivemind, which also worked on Netflix's The Witcher, was developing the series with Sony Pictures Television, but co-founder Dinesh Shamdasani revealed on Twitter that the project is dead when asked about it, as reported by PC Gamer. 

A Final Fantasy 14 live-action TV series is now confirmed to be «dead» due to the «size and scale needed to do it right».

The previously announced live-action Final Fantasy 14 TV series is now "dead," according to its studio's co-founder. 

With all the big titles launching in the next few weeks, it’s almost easy to forget that Atlus’s Persona 3 Reload launches on February 2nd. To help remind you, a new live-action trailer is available, starring Aidan Gallagher of The Umbrella Academy fame as he ventures through the in-game worlds before crossing over into the Dark Hour to fight.

The Umbrella Academy meets Gekkoukan High. With Persona 3 Reload launching next week, Atlus West’s YouTube released an out-of-the-blue live-action commercial with Aidan Gallagher.

Easily, one of the biggest “problems” with certain media is their desire to “look cool” and try to bring in people to get their games. It’s not that they shouldn’t try and do this, but sometimes the look of what they show or the intent they’re trying to convey doesn’t quite line up. Ironically, the latest example of this comes from Persona 3 Reload, which isn’t even out yet. Atlus dropped a live-action trailer for the game starring Aidan Gallagher. Who’s that? He’s one of the stars of The Umbrella Academy, where he plays the time traveler called “Five.” He was in the trailer to remind players that within the game, “your time is limited.” So, the connections track, at least.

The Madame Web runtime has been revealed, and it's set to be the longest live-action Sony Marvel movie yet. 

Until Dawn is the next popular video game to get the live-action treatment.

With the recent international success of live-action adaptations of manga and anime like One Piece and Yu Yu Hakusho, Netflix finally seems to have made solid forward progress on a process that it has spent a few years on. Though some major franchises remain in development (no real news on that My Hero Academia movie yet aside from “production might have started”) the streaming service has amassed quite a list to run through if you’re interested.

It’s been a big week for, as yet another character — Dina — has been cast for the next season of the HBO video game adaptation.

HBO has announced that actress Kaitlyn Dever has joined The Last of Us Season 2 cast as Abby, who is Ellie’s rival in the second video game.

is set to reprise his role as Stoick the Vast in the upcoming live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake.

Steven Spielberg’s 1991 fantasy Hook feels like the true father of Disney’s massive wave of live-action remakes and spinoffs of its classic animated features, but it wasn’t actually made by Walt Disney Studios. Disney took another two decades to really see the appeal of that kind of big blockbuster brand extension, once the billion-dollar box office for Tim Burton’s CG-filled Alice in Wonderland and the similarly massive take for the villain backstory Maleficent made the live-action formula seem like a gold mine. Disney has been cranking them out ever since, generally producing hits that many people see, and few people love.

Jack Black has joined the cast of the in-development live-action Minecraft movie. Rumors about this casting popped up yesterday, January 2, with Deadline reporting that Black would play Steve (the Minecraft guy with the teal shirt and blue pants). Notably, Black starred as the villainous Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie last year, giving us the instant-classic «Peaches,» too. 

Ever since its release, fans have been asking for a live-action movie adaptation of Alien: Isolation. Ridley Scott and Disney, are you paying attention?

Graewolv’s upcoming occult-infused tactical shooter is to receive a live-action movie adaptation.

In honor of the winter solstice — aka the day in the Avatar-verse when the line between the spirit world and the human world is blurred — Netflix released some new first-look photos of the upcoming live-action reimagining of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Movies and games have always had an ambivalent relationship. Gaming’s the new kid on the block, and it seems pathologically obsessed with clinging onto Hollywoodesque tropes and presentation styles. Nevertheless, with its flourishing popularity, the gaming industry does occasionally show deep-seated desires to forge an independent identity.

Hideo Kojima’s work is heading to the silver screen. Announced today, A24 is bringing Kojima Production’s Death Stranding into live-action. The film is said to delve into the blurring between life and death, the titular “Death Stranding”, that brought horrific monsters into an ever-collapsing world.

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Kojima Productions has teamed up with A24 to bring a live-action film adaptation of Death Stranding to the big screen.

Kojima Productions has announced a collaboration with A24, the studio behind Academy Award winning films such as Everything Everywhere All At Once, to adapt Death Stranding into a live-action feature film.

Finally, we’ve got an update on the live-action adaptation of My Hero Academia, and it’s pretty promising. The show has been long in development at Netflix after they landed the rights to the beloved anime.

CD Projekt's live-action Cyberpunk 2077 offering won't be out until 2025 at the earliest. Not much is known about the preem project, except that it shouldn't be expected in 2024, according to the company's latest earnings call.

Nintendo announced last month that it was working with Sony Pictures to develop a live-action film based on its Legend of Zelda franchise, with Wes Bell – director of the Maze Runner films and the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – set to direct the film. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bell has now offered some tidbits on what vision he has in mind for the movie.

Wes Ball, the director of Nintendo's upcoming The Legend of Zelda movie, has discussed some of his ambitions for the project, saying he «would love to see a live-action Miyazaki» — a reference to legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, whose animated work includes Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Laputa: Castle in the Sky.

The director of the upcoming The Legend of Zelda movie has discussed his vision for the live-action adaptation.

Director Wes Ball says his live-action The Legend of Zelda is going to subvert expectations.

Wes Ball on what he wants from his upcoming adaptation of the beloved video game.

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Aaron and Adam Nee‘s planned live-action reboot of Masters of the Universe could be heading to Amazon following its cancellation at Netflix.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director Francis Lawrence says he’s very excited about his upcoming BioShock movie. He's helming the game adaptation of the beloved first-person shooter game for Netflix with Blade Runner 2049 screenwriter Michael Green writing the film. 

During a recent appearance at the BoxLunch Holiday Gala, Stranger Things vet David Harbour opened up about playing Frankenstein in James Gunn’s highly-anticipated animated Max series. He expressed how much he loves the idea of being able to play the same character in both animation and live-action.

The actor who played Princess Zelda in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Age of Calamity, and Tears of the Kingdom is 100% down to reprise the role for the recently announced live-action Zelda movie.

The first trailer for Yu Yu Hakusho is here.

Is Nintendo finally starting to loosen up? It took the company 30 years to make another big Mario movie after the 1993 live-action flick got two thumbs down from Siskel and Ebert, but hey, it went just fine: Jack Black did a song and lots of money was made. Now Nintendo is really letting loose: It announced today that it's making a live-action Zelda movie. 

Nintendo is returning to live-action films with a new movie based on The Legend of Zelda, the company announced today.

Nintendo has started development on a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie that will be produced by Morbius, Spider-Verse, and Uncharted producer Avi Arad.

A live-action Legend of Zelda movie is on the way from director Wes Ball – and, thanks to his scrapped Mouse Guard movie, we might have an idea what it could look like. 

The newly announced Legend of Zelda movie director Wes Ball has had a live-action adaptation of the video game on his mind for a while – 13 years, to be exact. 

Nintendo has officially confirmed that a live-actionLegend of Zelda movie is in development, with series creator Shigeru Miyamoto serving as a producer alongside Avi Arad, who was also a producer of Morbius, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (and its sequel), and The Amazing Spider-Man films. 

The Legend of Zelda is getting a live-action adaptation. After years of rumours, Nintendo has finally confirmed that it's working on a movie set in the enchanted lands of Hyrule, co-produced by the gaming giant and Avi Arad, who's behind the recent Spider-Man spin-off films. Wes Ball — best known for the Maze Runner trilogy — is attached to direct, which isn't being received well by fans of the franchise. Of course, Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto is deeply involved in the project in a producer capacity, just like he was for The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Still doubtless beaming from the runaway success of this year's Super Mario Bros. movie, Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie is in the works.

After the success of Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie this year, Nintendo has revealed a is on the way.