MOVIE VIDEOGAME COMPANY COLLAPSES
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MOVIE VIDEOGAME COMPANY COLLAPSES
A Hollywood-based videogame company that specialized in making games based on movies, TV shows, and even the Six Flags amusement-park rides, closed down Friday, after a year and a half of poor sales, according to reports appearing in Daily Variety and the Los Angeles Times . The company, which launched just 18 months ago, had forged deals with Lionsgate, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Vanguard Animation, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. In reporting the company's demise, the Times observed that it "underscores the difficulties of making videogames on a Hollywood time frame. Feature films take less than a year to shoot, edit and release. But video games can take two or more years to develop." On its home page, Brash links to a news article in the Wall Street Journal that appeared shortly after its launch. It was headlined "A Start-Up's Risky Niche Movie-based Videogames."
17/11/2008
