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Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Season 2 Zombies Outbreak — Treyarch Answers Our Burning Questions
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War‘s big new Season 2 update is officially out now, bringing with it a long list of new content, including one of the most substantial updates to Zombies to date.
The centerpiece of the new Zombies update is the large-scale Outbreak mode that gives fans of the fan-favorite mode yet another way to play and mow down zombies in a new setting.
We caught up with a handful of developers from Treyarch–including lead writer Craig Houston, game designer Kevin Drew, and studio creative director Corky Lehmkuhl–to discuss the new Outbreak mode and elaborate on some of the other changes coming to Zombies with the Season 2 update.
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Industry Insiders Explain Why Video Game Movies Are Getting Better And More Popular
Video game movies have long been seen as cursed, with adaptations usually turning out mediocre at best and terrible at worst. Yet something has shifted in the last few years, with films such as Detective Pikachu and Sonic The Hedgehog proving the formula can work, and studios snapping up adaptation deals at incredible rates. A feature by The Ringer has looked into the phenomenon, tapping a few industry experts to explain how and why the industry interest in games has grown so exponentially.
A few projects were singled out as turning points in the reputation of video game adaptations including Sonic The Hedgehog, the 2020 film which overcame a rough start to become one of the top performing video game movies ever.
Dmitri Johnson, who co-produced Sonic under his company dj2 Entertainment, was involved in the movie’s on-again-off-again production since 2012. He said that “everyone thought it was a joke,” during the early phases of production, but that attitudes changed following the film’s highly successful release. “Shortly after that, the incoming calls definitely increased from studios [and] networks saying, ‘Hey, whaddya got next?'”
New Avatar: The Last Airbender Movie Coming, Avatar Studios To Expand Franchise
Nickelodeon is establishing a new division dedicated entirely to creating content in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise. Avatar Studios is being run by Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, creators of the original animated series. The duo will also serve as co-chief creative officers as the studio creates new animated series and movies set in the world of Avatar.
As reported by Deadline, Avatar Studios will produce content that will be aired on Nickelodeon, the home of the original series and its spin-off, The Legend of Korra. The content will also make its way to Paramount+, as well as third-party platforms. Theatrical releases are also expected for the movies.
An animated movie is the first project for Avatar Studios and will begin production later this year.
New Beavis And Butt-Head Movie Headed To Paramount+
Beavis and Butt-Head are finally making a return. The animated comedy duo will star in a new movie headed directly to the new streaming service Paramount+, announced today during the ViacomCBS investors day call.
Both Beavis and Butt-Head joined the call via Zoom to announce the project. Check out their cameo below.
Paramount+ Greenlights Italian Job, Fatal Attraction Shows
The slices of the streaming pie are getting smaller and smaller, but ViacomCBS is working hard to grab its piece. Paramount+, recently rebranded from CBS All Access, is heading to its back catalog once again. The service announced a raft of new shows greenlit for Paramount+ this week, cherry-picking from films as far back as 1969.
Joining the previously-announced Grease prequel musical and Godfather documentary are five new shows based on films from Paramount’s library: The Italian Job, Fatal Attraction, Love Story, Flashdance, and The Parallax View.
Each show is taking a slightly different approach to updating its material. The Italian Job acts as a sequel to the original 1969 film–ignoring the 2003 remake. The show will focus on the grandchildren of Michael Caine‘s character, Charlie Croker, who inherit his safety deposit box and set out to find the Italian bullion from the movie. Hawaii Five-O writer Matt Wheeler is helping the show. Donald De Line, who produced that 2003 remake, is onboard as well.
First Halo Show Footage Debuts During Paramount+ Presentation (But You Can’t See It)
The first footage of the highly anticipated Halo show has debuted–but you’re not allowed to see it. The footage was shown during ViacomCBS’s February 24 investor presentation, but as the company introduced whatever was shown, the screen faded to a blue screensaver for most of the people watching. It seems only the actual investors on the call got to see what the Halo show will look like.
No doubt Halo fans will find this to be a lackluster way for ViacomCBS to finally show off the Halo series. The footage was played directly after the company announced that the series won’t air on Showtime after all, but on the ViacomCBS streaming service Paramount+ (previously CBS All Access). That news came along with a ton of other Paramount+ news, like the announcement of a Beavis and Butt-Head movie and a Frasier revival.
The Halo show has been in the works for years, originally with Steven Spielberg attached. We still know very little about it, besides a handful of casting appointments (such as Orange is the New Blacks’ Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief and Jen Taylor, who played Cortana in the Halo games, reprising her role). We also know that the show has shot in Budapest.