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Technoblade, a YouTube creator and Minecraft gamer with nearly 11 million subscribers, has died of cancer, his parents announced in a video posted on their son’s channel. He was 23. Eight hours before he died — he was diagnosed with cancer a year ago — the gamer wrote a final message to his followers, a message that…

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…

This weekend, there’s a major music festival going on. Online, that is. While many artists have taken to Facebook Watch, Zoom or Twitter to do solo events, there are also opportunities emerging in gaming to reach a larger audience. Case in point: this weekend, the Lavapalooza music festival is featuring such acts as…

Dig this: Warner Bros has set date for the theatrical debut of its Minecraft film — and the game’s obsessed young fans likely won’t be happy. The movie will hit megaplexes on March 4, 2022. Warners didn’t offer any new details about Minecraft, which has Peter Sollett attached as writer-director. The studio acquired…

Steve Carell is creeping toward Minecraft. The voice behind Gru in the Despicable Me films and Foxcatcher Oscar nominee is in talks to join the cast of Warner Bros’ adaptation of the uber-popular video game. Not familiar with it? Ask any 10-year-old. Rob McElhenney, who co-created, writes for and stars in the veteran…

Warner Bros. has revealed that the spot it reserved for May 24, 2019 with an event title will be occupied by their feature take of the hit PC and app game Minecraft. Pic will be presented in 3D and on Imax. Summer 2019’s schedule is still filling out and the only other title slated for May so far is Disney/Marvel’s Ave…

BREAKING: The makers of Minecraft have unearthed a pretty good morsel of movie news. Rob McElhenney, best known for co-creating and co-starring in the long-running FX/FXX series It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, has just been selected to direct the Minecraft movie that Warner Bros is developing. We’ll tell you more…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is in talks with Shawn Levy to develop to direct Minecraft, the hot video game franchise that Warner Bros acquired in February on the heels of the studio’s success with The LEGO Movie. The game was created by Swedish indie developer Mojang AB (mojang means "gadget" in Swedish), and the film is…

Lots of eyebrows shot upward this week on the news that Microsoft would spend $2.5 billion to buy Mojang, a little Swedish company that happens to be behind the big game franchise Minecraft. And maybe they should have. Digi-Capital‘s analysis of the deal suggests Microsoft spent at least twice as much for…

Microsoft has closed the previously much-rumored deal to acquire Mojang, the small Swedish company behind the massively popular videogame franchise Minecraft, for $2.5 billion. If you’re not a gamer, or the parent of one, you may not know Minecraft, but trust me, the little kids understand. It’s huge, one of the…

Before tonight’s Academy Awards, catch up on the top stories you missed this week on Deadline: Oscars Finally Here – Record Voting Turnout According To Academy But What Does It All Mean? By Pete Hammond – The robocalls and emails apparently did the trick as Academy CEO Dawn Hudson reports the 86th Oscar contest is…

EXCLUSIVE: Minecraft, one of the hottest video game franchises in the market today, is going to be made into a major motion picture. Warner Bros. just acquired the rights to the wildly popular game from Swedish indie developer Mojang AB (mojang means “gadget” in Swedish). The property already is getting huge interest…