Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, is already looking forward to its next potential blockbuster. The company has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to make a movie out of its 2K Games subsidiary's "BioShock," our 2007 game of the year. Gore Verbinski, the man responsible for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy, will produce and direct, and "BioShock" creator Ken Levine...
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | yesterday
Movie studio Universal will turn Bioshock into a film. Variety says the Bioshock movie will be directed by Gore Verbinski, this name may not ring a bell but he's the guy who directed "The Ring" and the "Pirate of the Caribbean" films. "Bioshock" publisher Take-Two Interactive is getting a multimillion-dollar advance against gross points on the pic. It's believed to be the biggest videogame-to-movie...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Can you believe that is Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Banks on the cover of Entertainment Weekly? I have to admit, I was a little unsure about Brolin playing Bush, but hats off the make up wizards who made that happen. This week we finally got confirmation that a Bioshock movie was happening, with Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski heading it up. Another unnecessary sequel and...
The Dust Forms Words (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Universal Pictures and 2K Games have entered an agreement to produce a movie based on Bioshock. At this stage the writer is mooted as John Logan ( Gladiator, Sweeney Todd ), with Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Carribean ) tapped to direct. Obviously there's no release date being talked yet, and if you recall back to the anticlimactic tale of the Peter Jackson Halo movie you should be...
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The hit video game "BioShock" is making the move to the big screen, with "Pirate of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski at the helm. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Entertainment Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
LAist BioShock Movie to be Made by UniversalSlashdot - 33 minutes agoTake-Two signs 'BioShock' movie deal with Universal CNNMoney.comBioShock the Movie: Sister, Can You Spare a Mutagen? PC WorldGore Verbinski to develop BioShock movie TechWhack (press release)Reuters - Cinema Blendall 108 news articles
POE News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
05/10/08 - , BioShock, Gore Verbinski, video game movieTake-Two Interactive Software Inc (TTWO.O) said on Friday that "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of "BioShock," its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong.
Games Galore (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Gore Verbinski to develop BioShock movie Take-Two Interactive Software has announced that Gore Verbinski would now be making the movie edition of popular videogame title BioShock. Gore Verbinski is most known for the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series which was a major hit worldwide. The movie would be produced by Universal Pictures. Christoph Hartmann,...
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Todays Top Posts: Live Podcast Now Look-alike Transformers iPod dock: Because you need another such dock Cablevision to roll out Wi-Fi broadband in NY area Uh-ohs! SP3 crippling HP AMD machines AT&T pulls offer of free Wi-Fi for iPhone users, again Zune gets clocked Hell yes: Gore Verbinski to direct Bioshock movie Sue-happy Canadians get $45 from Apple Problems with XP SP3 and your [...]...
Digital Tech News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
It's true. Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates of the Caribbean flicks has signed up to direct the movie BioShock for Universal Pictures. He's not a bad choice to pull-off a movie based on 2K Games' smash hit video game,...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
- So much for the Fountain of Youth.”Pirates” director Gore Verbinski to tackle “Bioshock.” (Variety) -Frank Miller to adapt “Buck Rogers”? (IGN) - Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit! “Donnie Darko” sequel to start shooting next week. (Screen Daily) - If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88mph, you're gonna see some serious sh–. DeLorean named [...]
Forever Geek (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... before the end. However, some recent news has grabbed me. The Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski is due to direct the game-to-film conversion and he was in fact the keynote speaker at the 2008 DICE summit. Maybe he didn't play the Pirates of the Caribbean game, but it was hardly groundbreaking. Then again, we can't charge him with that now can we? Kotaku had the following...
TrueGameHeadz BlogHeadz (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Universal studios and director Gore Verbinski of Pirates of the Caribbean fame have teamed up to bring last year’s XBOX hit Bioshock to the big screen. Bioshock is only the latest in comic book / gaming franchises to hit the big screen. It seems every summer there are ever more “Fanboy” franchises turning up on [...]
Nerd World (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Bioshock is going to be a movie, apparently. Gore Verbinski (who did The Ring and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies) is supposed to direct. Roll saving throw vs. Hollywood soullessness. Wonder how casting will play out -- I always thought Atlas sounded like Ewan Macgregor. And I'm looking forward to Keira Knightley saying, "I'm so spliced up! No man is going to want me now..."
Defamer (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
· We're not really sure how studios divvy up video game titles, deciding a Postal or Bloodrayne needs to land on the pile with flies buzzing around it marked "For Uwe," while saving a property like Bioshock for a crowd-pleasing effects wizard like Gore Verbinski, but there you have it: Verbinksi will direct Universal's big-screen adaptation. (We know, we know: It's a classic. Release...
