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AT&T reportedly backs away from selling Warner Bros. Interactive

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Sponsored Links Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment For the time being, AT&T has reportedly decided against selling its Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment gaming division to another company. According to Bloomberg, the telecom concluded the unit was too valuable to ditch, even if a sale would have helped the company with its $165 billion debt load. When news of the potential sale first broke, CNBC reported the sale of the division could have netted AT&T as much as $4 billion. Several prominent video game publishers were reportedly interested, including Microsoft, Take-Two, EA and Activision Blizzard. Bloomberg reports two

Battle For Middle-Earth Is Being Remade By Fans In Unreal Engine 4

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Released in 2004, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth was a high point in a period when EA had the license to make games based on Peter Jackson's film trilogy. That license reverted to Warner Bros. in a messy handover in late 2008, condemning the Middle-earth real-time-strategy series to licensing hell--but now a group of fans is bringing it back with a modern engine, Kotaku reports.The project is fittingly named The Battle for Middle-earth: Reforged and was first announced in 2018. However, a recently released video showcasing

Apple’s Actions Against Epic Games and Unreal Engine Could Affect PUBG MOBILE, Peacekeeper Elite

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The battle between Apple and Epic Games over Fortnite and in-app purchases has gone nuclear after the companies traded lawsuits and threats over a dispute that could impact hundreds of millions of players around the world. The new lawsuit comes after Apple told Epic that it would take actions that would directly affect Unreal Engine 4, Epic’s game development platform. Epic Games filed a lawsuit Monday in the District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple seeking a temporary restraining order “from removing, de-listing, refusing to list or

Matt Reeves Has Signed A New Overall Deal With Warner Bros. TV

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As the writer, producer and director on The Batman, Matt Reeves has been working with Warner Bros' film studio--now, he's moving his overall deal for TV content from 20th Century Fox to Warner Bros, THR reports.Reeves, along with his production studio, 6th and Idaho, will create and develop television projects for Warner Bros. TV destined for various platforms, including WarnerMedia's new streaming service HBO Max. Reeves currently has an exclusive first-look deal with Netflix for feature films.Reeves' past TV projects include WB's Felicity, The Passage on Fox, Tales From The

Will Smith’s New Movie Sells To Apple For $120 Million

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Apple has purchased yet another big movie, and they're paying a huge fee for it. Deadline reports that the iPhone company has purchased Will Smith's new movie, Emancipation, for $120 million USD.The site reported that seven different companies bid on Emancipation after it was put up for sale, with Warner Bros. and Apple finishing as the final two serious candidates before Apple won out.Emancipation stars Will Smith as a runaway slave from Louisiana who embarks on a perilous journey to the North while he's tracked down by "cold-blooded hunters." The

Robert Pattinson Says Tenet Is Like A Magic Trick

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The Dark Knight and Inception director Christopher Nolan is back with a new blockbuster movie, Tenet, that's coming to theatres--yes, theatres--at the end of July. Very little is known about the plot beyond that it will incorporate some element of time manipulation. Star Robert Pattinson has now shared a little more insight, but he's really just adding to the mystery and intrigue around the film.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Pattinson said it was difficult to get his head around the script and understand what kind of a movie Tenet is."You really

Lego Developer Spent $1 Million On A Hobbit Game Pitch, See The Early Demos Here

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The developers of Lego games, Traveller's Tales, spent $1 million on a pitch for a Hobbit video game that never came to be. Studio co-founder Jon Burton revealed this in a new video for his YouTube page, GameHut, and he speaks very freely and openly about the project and how it came to be (and not be).In 2008, Warner Bros. announced plans to make two Hobbit movies, with Guillermo del Toro attached to direct. Burton wanted to make an Xbox 360/PS3 video game tie-in for the movie, but not a

PS5 And Xbox Series X Injustice, Mortal Kombat Games Seemingly Being Planned

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The next generation of consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, is nearly upon us. And while we've seen some games for both systems, the fighting game genre has been absent from many of these early announcements. Fighting game developer NetherRealm Studios seems to be leading the push for next-gen brawlers, with a brand-new job listing hiring for someone to bring Injustice and Mortal Kombat to PS5 and XSX.The listing (spotted by EventHubs) simply states NetherRealm Studios is looking for a principal software engineer to work on graphics that

Wonder Woman 1984, Godzilla, And Matrix 4 Release Dates Delayed

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While theaters are slowly opening across the country, including in California, with new guidelines for cinemas, Warner Bros. is shifting around many dates for upcoming movies. And most of these films are getting pushed back. Christopher Nolan's Tenet has already seen a delay--now hitting theaters in late July--and three other major Warner Bros. films are being shifted, including Wonder Woman 1984, which moves to October 2, 2020 from August 14, as Gal Gadot revealed in a tweet. The new release date for WW84 is 10.2.20. Wow,it's finally happening, & I

Warner Bros. Gaming Division Might Be Sold; EA, Take-Two, And Activision Reportedly Interested

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AT&T is reportedly looking to sell its Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, according to a report by CNBC. The deal could reach $4 billion, according to sources, who asked to not be named by CNBC. Take-Two, EA, and Activision Blizzard have all reportedly expressed interest in buying the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, but no deals have been made or are close to completion. Many of the video games tied with the gaming division are related to Warner Bros.-owned properties, including Batman, Harry Potter, and The Lego Movie, meaning that a deal