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Your favourite PlayStation game just might be the next summer blockbuster
Looks like Sony has a theory on how to end the video game movie curse; make the movies themselves.
The company has launched PlayStation Productions to adapt their own video games into movies. With sister company Sony Pictures, helping with the distribution, the production house already has it's first few projects in line.
"We’ve got 25 years of game development experience and that’s created 25 years of great games, franchises and stories," says chairman of Worldwide Studios at SIE, Shawn Layden, who will be overseeing the new enterprise. "We feel that now is a good time to look at other media opportunities across streaming or film or television to give our worlds life in another spectrum."