It's going to be weird going to E3 next year and not seeing a section of the Activision booth cordoned off for The Movies
next year. The game has finally gone gold and will be in stores
on November 8th. The film making simulator will allow games to
unleash their inner Francis Ford Copolla (or in John's case, Uwe Bol)
as the game allows you to script and film your own movies. The
shear breadth and depth of the movie are impressive but it's what we've
come to expect from the mind of Peter Molyneux.
ACTIVISION
ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER 8 PREMIERE OF LIONHEAD STUDIOS’ THE MOVIES™
Santa
Monica, CA –
October 6, 2005 – It’s a wrap! Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today
that The
Moviesâ„¢ has gone gold and will premiere at retail outlets
nationwide on Tuesday, November 8. Created by renowned life simulation pioneer
Peter Molyneux and Lionhead Studios®, The Movies allows
gamers to become Hollywood players by creating unique movies and releasing
them from the studios they build, starring the actors they discover and
develop.
The
Movies PC game will be available for a suggested retail price of
$49.99. In addition, a Premiere Edition featuring exclusive star costumes, a
20-song game soundtrack, an advanced movie-making hints guide, exclusive
trailers and original concept art, will be available for the suggested retail
price of $59.99. Both versions are rated “T†(Teen with blood and gore, crude
humor, mild language, sexual themes, use of alcohol and tobacco, and violence)
by the ESRB.
For
more information on The Movies, please
visit www.themoviesgame.com.
About Lionhead
Studios
Lionhead
Studios is based in Guildford, Great
Britain, and was founded in 1997. The company’s
first game, “Black & White†for PC, was released in 2001, and worldwide
sales of it have topped 2 million copies. Its second game, “Fable†for Xbox, has
sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide, and the numbers continue to climb,
making it one of the top-selling Xbox titles of all time. The Company has three
games, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Black & White 2 and The Movies, all
scheduled for release on PC this fall. For more information about Lionhead
Studios, visit http://www.lionhead.com.
About
Activision, Inc.
Headquartered
in Santa Monica, California, Activision, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer,
publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products.
Founded in 1979, Activision posted net revenues of $1.4 billion for the fiscal
year ended March 31, 2005.
Activision
maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United
Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Australia, Scandinavia, Spain and the Netherlands. More information about
Activision and its products can be found on the company's World Wide Web site,
which is located at www.activision.com.
