Will ‘Tetris’ filmmakers think outside the blocks?
BEIJING — It lacks the building blocks of characters and a plot for now, but a Chinese-American studio hopes to turn the “Tetris” video game into a blockbuster movie. Threshold Global Studios is budgeting $80 million to strategically rotate, slide and drop the famed 1980s stacking game into a sci-fi thriller. The project is the first for the studio, a newly formed joint venture between Chinese entertainment investor Bruno Wu’s Seven Star Works and producer Larry Kasanoff’s Th
‘Tetris the Movie': Coming soon to a theater near you
Know how everyone always said Hollywood should make a movie based on “Tetris,” the 1984 video game in which players fit differently shaped blocks into one another? Oh, wait — no one said that, but we’re getting one anyway, thanks to Larry Kasanoff and Bruno Wu. The idea of such a film, much less a trilogy of them, seems so patently absurd that a group of filmmakers created a joke trailer for the movie long before the actual idea was even announced. But the real thing might be
£55million funding for possible Tetris movie trilogy
Tetris's simple yet addictive format has been entertaining gamers for three decades, and it was first announced in October 2014 that the Soviet video game was going to break on to the big screen as a science-fiction film. Now it appears it may be the first of a trilogy, after Chinese-American Threshold Global Studios announced that they were putting £55million into the project. The objective of the game, invented in 1984 by Russian Alexey Pajitnov, is to build flat layers fro
Hoping for a blockbuster, Tetris game inspires movie
BEIJING (AP) — It could be a blockbuster. At least that's what a Chinese-American movie studio hopes to produce in a sci-fi thriller based on the popular 1980s video game Tetris. The $80 million project is the first from the newly formed Threshold Global Studios, a joint venture between Chinese entertainment investor Bruno Wu's Seven Star Works and producer Larry Kasanoff's California-based Threshold Entertainment Group, which produces live action movies. The joint venture "w
Potential blockbuster? ‘Tetris The Movie’ just got $80M funding
The classic video game Tetris is getting the Hollywood treatment and being turned into a movie with an $80 million budget. Larry Kasanoff, producer of such films as "True Lies" and "Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers," has teamed up with Chinese producer Bruno Wu to create a joint venture called Threshold Global Studios to develop and finance the film. The producers plan to film in China in 2017 and feature a Chinese cast. Threshold has been working with The Tetris Company
An $80 million Tetris movie is being made in China next year
There is a concerted effort on the part of Hollywood right now to turn video games into movies. The desire is so great that even properties that you wouldn’t think could be turned into movies are being optioned by studios. Now even Tetris, a game that consists entirely of fitting shapes together on a screen, is getting a film adaptation. It gets even more bizarre than that; however, because the Tetris movie is being setup as an "epic sci-fi thriller" that will cost $80 millio
Tetris the movie, first announced in 2014, 'has the funding for a trilogy'
There's no script or name, but a movie studio says it now has the funding to make a sci-fi trilogy based on Tetris. In the game, players have to move shaped blocks into the correct slots, which becomes harder and faster as people move through the levels. The company behind the films, Threshold Global Studios, said it would be making more "cross-cultural movies for the global market" in the future. It also said Tetris was "a perfect first project for this strategy". Click for
Cannes: ‘Tetris’ Heads for China Shoot as Larry Kasanoff, Bruno Wu Venture
“Mortal Kombat” producer Larry Kasanoff has teamed with Chinese businessman Bruno Wu to produce “Tetris: The Movie” as an $80 million China-U.S. co-production. The picture will be set up as one of the first pictures from Threshold Global Studios, a new company involving Kasanoff’s Threshold Entertainment and Wu’s Seven Stars Entertainment. “Tetris,” envisaged as a three part franchise picture will shoot partly in China and feature Chinese cast in prominent positions. “Thresho
Movie based on 'Tetris' starts shooting in 2017
Yes, that movie based on the classic puzzle game Tetris is really happening. A live-action science fiction movie based on the block-stacking puzzler will be co-produced by Threshold Entertainment Group and China’s Seven Star Works, the companies revealed in a joint statement Tuesday. The project, carrying a budget of $80 million, starts shooting in China in 2017. The Tetris film is the first movie in a joint venture between the two companies to produce and finance film under
Chinese and U.S. producers have announced an $80 million sci-fi thriller based on the block-busting
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese and U.S. producers say they plan to make an $80 million live-action sci-fi thriller based on the popular 1980s building block computer game Tetris. The movie will begin shooting next year. It is the first project from the newly formed Threshold Global Studios, a joint venture between Chinese entertainment investor Bruno Wu's Seven Star Works and producer Larry Kasanoff's California-based Threshold Entertainment Group. The pair said in a statement Tuesda
