Donkey Kong wasn’t always a shoe-in for the new movie Pixels. In an interview with Wired, director Chris Columbus stated that the character wasn’t included in the first draft of the script.

It was only after several months of meetings with Nintendo that the company signed off on having Donkey Kong featured in Pixels. Nintendo eventually felt that the film team would “treat Donkey Kong with respect and the proper gameplay”.

Columbus said:

“I was excited because the script had a Centipede sequence and a Pac-Man sequence, but what the first draft of the script did not have was Donkey Kong. After months and months of meeting with the board of Nintendo they agreed that we were going to treat Donkey Kong with respect and the proper gameplay, which was very important, and bringing Donkey Kong into the film was a slam-dunk for us.”

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First scan of next year’s Pokemon movie

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This month’s CoroCoro has started to leak, and it gives us a first look at next year’s Pokemon movie. All of the images are from a trailer that airs after Hoopa and the Clash of Ages. A silhouette of a Pokemon is shown, which is rumored to be Zyngarde (in a different form).

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Mighty No. 9 live action movie announced

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We’ve known about potential plans for a Mighty No. 9 live-action movie for over a year now. Today, the project was officially announced.

Legendary Digital Media, Contradiction Films, and Comcept are all partnering on the film. This will be made available for digital platforms.

Tomas Harlan, partner at Contradiction, said of today’s news:

“We are thrilled to be working with the great Inafune-san on Mighty No.9 and feel so fortunate that the Legendary Digital team shares a common vision for the live action adaptation of this very special video game.”

Mighty No. 9 creator Keiji Inafune also chimed in with the following statement:

“The announcement that Legendary Digital is collaborating with Contradiction and comcept on creating a live action project based on Mighty No.9 is really amazing, not only for myself and the rest of the team at comcept who worked on the game, but also for all the fans who have supported the project. This collaboration will give our creation the ability to reach people all over the world. Thanks to all of your support, we have fulfilled another one of our dreams.”

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Pokemon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages commercials

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New Japanese commercials have been published for Pokemon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages. Watch them below.

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Pokemon the Movie XY 2016 will apparently feature Zygarde

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Pokemon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages will debut in Japan later this month. Early reports indicate that at the end of the film, a trailer for Pokemon the Movie XY 2016 is shown. This is said to feature Zygarde, a creature that first appeared in the 3DS games.

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Dwayne Johnson starring in film adaptation of Rampage

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Deadline is reporting that Dwayne Johnson – otherwise known as The Rock – will be starring in a live action movie based on the Midway game Rampage.

In the original title, players could take on the roles of George the gorilla, Lizzie the lizard and Ralph the werewolf. The game tasks them with reducing different North American cities to rubble.

New Line Cinema is handling the film, which will begin production next summer. Plot details are currently being kept under wraps, but Johnson’s character “gets in [the monsters’] way.”

Ryan Eagle is handling the Rampage movie script. Beau Flynn will act as its producer.

Rampage originally came to arcades in 1986. It later ended up on the NES, N64, and GameCube in various forms.

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Pixels movie – “Arcade Characters” vignette

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Second Yo-Kai Watch film debuts in Japan on December 19

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The second Yo-Kai Watch film debuts in Japan on December 19, CoroCoro’s July issue reveals. Tickets go on sale starting on December 19.

The movie will be titled Eiga Yo-kai Watch: Enma Daioh to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan! (Film Yo-kai Watch: Great King Enma and the 5 Stories, Meow!).

CoroCoro sadly doesn’t share any actual story details, so we’ll need to wait for further information.

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