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Microsoft launched the Xbox One back in 2013, but also announced a slew of projects that were even more exciting than a new gaming console. One of which was a new television series airing on Showtime based on the popular video game franchise Halo, which would involve legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg! Since this announcement, we've seen Halo: Nightfall and Forward Unto Dawn, which had fans of the series figuring the Spielberg project was never going to happen. Up until this week, we would've agreed. According to Showtime president David Nevins, this TV series is still in development, but certainly on the way. Read more on this news below. Read More »
Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg is slated to direct his first feature film in collaboration with Warner Brothers since A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). Spielberg signed on in March to direct the adaptation of Ernest Cline's novel, Ready Player One. As soon as he is done with producing a Roald Dahl adapted novel, The BFG, he will begin his work with Warner Brothers. It will be nice to see him return to the production company that the Hollywood Reporter says is how he got to "establish his Amblin baner," seeing as he produced a variety of films for WB in the 1980s like Gremlins and The Goonies. Read More »
Featuring the popular superheroes and super villains of the DC Comics Universe, "LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham" may have found another franchise to take to the gaming world. Towards the end of the game, does guest-star Adam West ("Batman" '66) discover the LEGO treatment of Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park?". Read More »
Microsoft has handed out its last wave of 18,000 pink slips to its employees. Just as scheduled, the staff at Xbox Entertainment Studios, including studio chief Nancy Tellem, have been let go, leaving many projects, including the "Halo" TV series from Steven Spielberg in limbo. Read More »
Even though we knew the inevitable was going to happen, pink slips are being handed ahead of schedule. Before its planned closure, Microsoft has already started cutting staff at Xbox Entertainment Studios, leaving many projects, including the "Halo" TV series from Steven Spielberg in limbo. Read More »
Before the graphic novel hits stores in October, writer Neil Gaiman and artist Lorenzo Mattotti's re-imagination of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale "Hansel & Gretel" is already getting the big screen treatment. Juliet Blake, has teamed up with the author to develop a live-action version the popular tale. Read More »
Quite possibly a sign of the struggling economic status, we are in, Microsoft has announced that they will be shutting down Xbox Entertainment Studios. An estimated 18,000 layoffs will take place in the coming months. Read More »
For the past couple of weeks 19-year-old hunter and Texas cheerleader Kendall Jones has been in the media spotlight for her images of big game kills. Due the outcry and threats by animal lovers and activists, those photos have been removed, but another allegedly inhumane hunter has entered into the realm online consciousness. Enter Steven Spielberg -- dinosaur killer. Wait...what? Read More »
Steven Spielberg is known as arguably one of the best filmmakers alive today, but he might be getting some acclaim thanks to his children Theo and Sasha. The young Spielbergs (Theo, 25, and Sasha, 23) recently DJed Teen Vogue's "Young Hollywood" party, which resulted in enough people remembering the duo to keep talking about them this week. Read More »
