• J.J. Abrams And Gabe Newell To Develop 'Portal' And 'Half-Life' Films; Is Something Bigger Than Mere Movies In Mind?

    While Star Wars continues to dominate much of the conversation about big-ticket sci-fi film, the outcome of the DICE keynote talk between filmmaker J.J. Abrams and game-master Gabe Newell of Valve Software was even more stunning: the two are likely to collaborate to make games and movies. The stated movie interests are adaptations of popular Valve…

    Read More
  • If There Were To Be A Half-Life Movie, Game Developer Valve Might Make It

    Why don't game developers make their own movies based upon the video games they create? The first answer to that question should be: "they're busy making more games." But there are a few cases where very high-profile development studios might be able to pull together the resources to make a game-based film, and do so…

    Read More
  • What's In The Box?

    What's in the box? We're honestly not sure. This 9-minute first-person short film has appeared on YouTube this week and is beginning to gain some traction in the Alternative Reality Game world. What we do know is this: The short was shot in the Netherlands, Nijmegen to be exact, using a bunch of assets taken…

    Read More
  • 6 More SXSW Movie Trailers

    We're back with another batch of movie trailers for some of the smaller independent films playing at the 2008 South By Southwest Film Festival: Barry Jenkins' meet-cute drama Medicine For Melancholy, Jennifer Phang's cosmic family saga Half-Life, Kevin Ely & Beau Leland's rock opera Rainbow Around the Sun, Harmony Korine's celeb-impersonator fantasy Mister Lonely, Marco…

    Read More