The creators of Logorama – an Oscar-winning short film that featured its fair share of video game companies – will be sticking with a gaming theme for their next work, creating a live-action short for Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon series. More »

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Oscar-Winning Duo Working On Ghost Recon Movie [Ghost Recon]
The creators of Logorama – an Oscar-winning short film that featured its fair share of video game companies – will be sticking with a gaming theme for their next work, creating a live-action short for Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon series. More »

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Oscar-Winning Duo Working On Ghost Recon Movie [Ghost Recon]
The creators of Logorama – an Oscar-winning short film that featured its fair share of video game companies – will be sticking with a gaming theme for their next work, creating a live-action short for Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon series. More »

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Oscar-Winning Duo Working On Ghost Recon Movie [Ghost Recon]
We can’t be gaming all the time, despite our best efforts, and from time to time we’ll actually take advantage of the movie-playing abilities on our gaming systems. JBO features our top picks for XBL, PSN, Netflix’s Watch Instantly and Blu-ray each week. Recommendation of the Week: Ponyo (Blu-ray, $39.99 MSRP, much lower at most retailers) If you don’t know who Hayao Miyazaki is yet, then you need a crash course in gorgeous Japanese animated films with amazing storytelling.

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JBO: Joystiq Box Office, March 1 – March 5
Attention, Internet: I have some news that has the potential to instantly make your weekend way better than it possibly could have been otherwise. As long as you’ve got a Netflix account that includes Instant Watch, you’ll be thrilled to know that the 1994 Street Fighter movie — starring one Raul Julia (in his last film role) as M.

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Street Fighter on Netflix + Bisontoid = best weekend ever
Now you — yes, you , hopeful tournament entrant — can return to Man Island thanks to the wonders of Netflix streaming technology.

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Mortal Kombat is now streamable from Netflix
We can’t be gaming all the time, despite our best efforts, and from time to time we’ll actually take advantage of the movie-playing abilities on our gaming systems. JBO features our top picks for XBL, PSN, Netflix’s Watch Instantly and Blu-ray each week. Recommendation of the Week: Clash of the Titans ($34.99 MSRP, much lower at most retailers) Kratos is coming back again soon for his final vengeance (and let’s hope an anger management course or two) in God of War III (look for new interviews and a hands-on with the complete opening on Monday), and with Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and a massive-budget remake of Clash of the Titans on the way, this is the Year of Olympus

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JBO: Joystiq Box Office, February 22 – February 26
After Universal won a bidding war last year over the movie rights to Asteroids , Atari now hopes to launch a movie based on the classic arcade game Missile Command . The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that the venerable game company has been actively pitching studios on the Missile Command concept . There’s a good chance, says the Times , that the project will wind up at Fox through former Newscorp CEO Peter Chernin’s production company.
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Report: Atari Pitches Missile Command Movie to Tinseltown
Movie studio executives are blaming videogames for dragging young men away from theaters. The Sunday Times calls it the “Xbox Factor.” Peter Guber, chairman of Mandalay Pictures, backed them up.
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Guess Why Men Are Buying Fewer Movie Tickets
The movie based on the Mark Millar created comic book series Kick-Ass is getting its own adaptation in the form of a video game for the PlayStation Network and iPhone. It will be simply Kick-Ass. IGN reports that WHA Entertainment will be handling the downloadable Kick-Ass game, which should follow the same kids-turned-super heroes plot, with plenty of gory beat ‘em up fisticuffs and gunplay.

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PlayStation Network, iPhone Getting A Kick-Ass Game [Movies]