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Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) will star in Peacock’s Twisted Metal, the live-action video game adaptation starring Anthony Mackie. Beatriz will play the character of Quiet, a ferocious, badass car thief who acts purely on instinct – you couldn't stop her any more than a manhole could stop a volcano…

AMC has thrown its hat into the ring of video game adaptations, with a series based on the action-adventure game Alan Wake in the works. Sam Lake the Creative Director of Remedy Entertainment, the Alan Wake developer, revealed the news during the game’s 12th anniversary celebration on Thursday. In addition to sharing…

EA is diving back into the world of J.R.R Tolkein's Middle-earth with an upcoming The Lord Of The Rings mobile game. On Monday, the gaming giant revealed that it will partner up with Middle-Earth Enterprises for The Lord Of The Rings: Heroes Of Middle-earth, an upcoming free-to-play mobile game that “brings the…

The Chernin Group is leading a $263 million strategic investment in pop culture lifestyle brand Funko, with Bob Iger and sports agent Rich Paul among the stakeholders. Peter Chernin and Iger, who ended his long run at Disney last year, are joining as advisers to the Funko board. Paul, CEO and founder of Klutch Sports…

EXCLUSIVE: The Game Awards and Summer Game Fest producer Geoff Keighley has partnered up with Imax to level up the two annual gaming events. On Thursday, Imax announced that it will air the two buzzy gaming occasions live across its theaters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. "We are thrilled to be a…

EXCLUSIVE: Host, producer and creator Sydnee Goodman has signed with WME for representation. Goodman, who currently hosts Paramount+’s after show Halo the Series: Declassified, is known for her content in the intersections of pop culture, gaming, lifestyle and sports. She was the former Content Strategy Lead for…

EXCLUSIVE: Mob Games is partnering with Studio71 to develop and produce a film based on its popular video game Poppy Playtime—one the companies hope will be the first in a horror franchise. The first installment of Poppy Playtime was released by Mob Games in October of 2021. In the game, a former employee of Playtime…

An upcoming film adaptation of the video game It Takes Two has landed at Amazon, with Seven Bucks Productions coming aboard to produce alongside dj2 Entertainment, Deadline can confirm. It Takes Two is an action-adventure co-op platform game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts, which…

Skydance New Media and Lucasfilm are teaming to develop a new Star Wars game. Revealed Tuesday by New Media’s Amy Hennig, Skydance will work with Lucasfilm to develop and produce “a richly cinematic action-adventure game featuring an original story in the legendary Star Wars galaxy.” News of the Star Wars project…

Jason Momoa (Dune) is in early talks to star in a live-action Minecraft film in the works at Warner Bros, sources tell Deadline. Minecraft is a first-person survival game developed and published by Mojang Studios that spans multiple platforms. The first installment in the franchise debuted in November 2011, with the…

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of its success with Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog films, SEGA has another franchise coming to the big screen with beat ’em up game Streets of Rage getting the film treatment, sources tell Deadline. Derek Kolstad, who created the John Wick action franchise and penned the Bob Odenkirk actioner No…

Netflix has ordered an animated series and a mobile game based on the Exploding Kittens card game – the first time that the streamer will launch a videogame and a series from the same franchise. Tom Ellis (Lucifer), Abraham Lim (The Boys), Lucy Liu (Elementary), Ally Maki (Wrecked), Mark Proksch (What We Do in the Shad…