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Bette Midler is calling on Disney and urging them to get a script for Hocus Pocus 3.

The star of the Halloween film says she has not seen a script for the third installment, which has been in development following the success of the sequel last year on Disney+.

“I haven’t seen the script, but I’ve heard rumblings,” Midler said on the QVC+ talk show Busy This Week.

She continued, “I think if they’re gonna, they oughta because time is not just marching. Time is barrel-assing to the finish line. Get us while we’re still breathing, I mean, God!”

Hocus Pocus was first released in 1993 and directed by Kenny Ortega from a screenplay by Mick Garris and Neil Cuthbert and a story by David Kirschner and Garris. The film follows a trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy on Halloween night.

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Since the original Mortal Kombat launched in arcades more than three decades ago, the fighting game series has been known for one aspect that sets it apart from other fighting games: its grotesque and over-the-top gore.

This has been at the center of controversy ever since. Still, it has also taught both Nintendo and creator Ed Boon one valuable lesson about the series that has gone on to sell more than 80 million copies globally.

Mortal Kombat Was Sanitized for the Snes

Mortal Kombat launched on the Snes without its iconic gory fatalities.

In an article in 2014, the BBC shed light on the impact the fighting game series has had on the entire gaming industry ever since the original Mortal Kombat saw the light of day in arcades in 1992. When the game was ported to the Snes and the Sega Genesis, the controversy surrounding the game and its brutal visuals took off.

The Sanderson sisters will be returning to cause more wicked chaos with Hocus Pocus 3, 30 years after the original movie was first released.

Disney+ is developing another sequel to the film starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker. Sean Bailey, President of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, confirmed the news in an interview with The New York Times.

It’s no surprise that a sequel is being developed as Hocus Pocus 2 was a hit for the streamer setting a record with 2.7 billion minutes of viewing.

Hocus Pocus was first released in 1993 and directed by Kenny Ortega from a screenplay by Mick Garris and Neil Cuthbert and a story by David Kirschner and Garris. The film follows a trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy on Halloween night.

Although it was not a box office hit, over the years the film would achieve cult...

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The Sanderson sisters are poised to brew more mayhem in Hocus Pocus 2. Here’s how you can easily conjure the witchy sequel for weekend streaming.

Hocus Pocus 2 makes its Disney+ debut on Friday, Sept. 30, and reunites the original 1993 movie’s stars — Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy — as Winifred, Sarah and Mary Sanderson.

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Screen Media has acquired North American rights to James Nunn’s “One Shot,” a thriller about a team of trapped Navy SEALs that unfolds in real time.

The movie features martial arts star Scott Adkins, who previously worked with Nunn on “Eliminators,” “Tower Block,” and “Green Street 3.” The cast also includes Ashley Greene Khoury of The Twilight Saga fame and “Shooter” and “Cruel Intentions” star Ryan Phillippe. Screen Media will release the film theatrically and on video on-demand in late fall.

“I am delighted ‘One Shot’ has found such a tremendous home in Screen Media for its North American release,” said producer Marc Goldberg. “I know the Screen Media team will do a fantastic job with its release; the film is a nonstop action, thrill-a-second ride and will delight audiences in the USA.”

“We know audiences are going to be blown away by the action that James and his cast and crew have captured here.

“There are no cheap parlor tricks here!” growls Locke (Armando Gutierrez), the cloak-swirling, goatee-twitching villain of Blake Harris and Chris Bouchard’s “The Little Mermaid,” providing such an easy way in for the disgruntled reviewer (and few will be gruntled) that it almost feels like a trap. Creaky visual effects, slapdash plotting and a script drunk on cliché: There’s pretty much nothing but cheap parlor trickery here.

The biggest trick of all, of course, is that though it feels like it was designed to capitalize on the confusion, this is neither the forthcoming Lin-Manuel Miranda-assisted Disney remake, nor Universal’s similarly titled, status-unknown project that formerly had Sofia Coppola and Chloë Grace Moretz attached. Nor does it bear much resemblance to the 1989 animated musical, or to the Hans Christian Andersen story that purportedly inspired all of the above. Instead it belongs to the subgenre of “imagine insert-mythical-creature-here was real” movies,...

In today’s film news roundup, Poppy Drayton’s “The Little Mermaid” gets a theatrical release, Melissa Leo gets a film festival honor, and the script for holiday adventure “Escape From the North Pole” is bought.

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A live-action independent version of “The Little Mermaid,” starring British actress Poppy Drayton, has been set for release nationwide exclusively in AMC Theatres beginning Aug. 17.

The movie is inspired by the 1837 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale rather than the Disney animated movie and follows a young girl who discovers an enchanting woman she believes to be the real “Little Mermaid” of lore.

William Moseley stars as a reporter following a story about a mermaid and a magic healing water. Together with his sick niece, played by Loreto Peralta, they travel to a small town in Mississippi to uncover a legend.

Shirley MacLaine, Gina Gershon, and Armando Gutierrez also star. Production companies are...

The Little Mermaid, the live-action film inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale more than the Disney animated classic, has set an August 17 release date exclusively at more than 200 AMC Theatres nationwide via Freestyle Releasing. The Royals‘ William Moseley and Downton Abbey‘s Poppy Drayton star in the debut feature from Robert Molloy’s Kingsway Productions.

Written by Blake Harris and co-directed by Harris and Chris Bouchard, the fantasy-adventure follows a young girl who discovers a beautiful, enchanting woman she believes to be the real “Little Mermaid” of lore. Moseley is Cam Harrison, a young reporter following a big story about the mermaid (Drayton) and a magic healing water said to cure all. He travels with his sick niece (Loreto Peralta) to a small Mississippi town and uncovers a legend that’s as mysterious as the circus they find it in. Shirley MacLaine, Gina Gershon and Armando Gutierrez co-star.

The live-action family film Anastasia has found its czar.

Brandon Routh, currently on The Arrow TV series, is set to star as Czar Nicholas. He joins previously announced Emily Carey as Anastasia and Amiah Miller to perform the role of Megan.

Routh, who played Clark Kent/Superman in 2006's Superman Returns, has credits that include features Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Zack and Miri Make a Porno; TV's Chuck and Partners; as well as Crackle's digital series Chosen.

Blake Harris is directing Anastasia from his screenplay. Set in 1917, the film tells the classic story of Anastasia Romanov escaping through a...

Brandon Routh has joined the cast of the live-action family adaptation of “Anastasia,” which will be directed by Blake Harris. The star of “Superman Returns” will appear in the film as Nicholas Romanov, the last Czar of Russia who was dethroned by Vladimir Lenin during the Russian Revolution. The story of Romanov’s youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, has been the basis for a 1956 drama starring Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner and a 1997 animated film by Don Bluth. In Harris’ version, Anastasia (Emily Carey), escapes the assassination of her family and finds a portal transporting her to the...

Exclusive: Feature marks second collaboration between Swen Group and Conglomerate.

Emily Carey, who plays the young Diana in global smash Wonder Woman, will star in the live-action family feature Anastasia: Once Upon A Time.

The feature is a retelling of the Anastasia Romanov story and marks the second production between Swen Group, the Latin American giant that recently established a Us distribution arm, and Conglomerate, the Florida-based production company behind Walt Before Mickey and the upcoming Little Mermaid.

Anastasia: Once Upon A Time begins in 1917 as the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II flees Lenin’s troops through a time portal, emerging in 1988 when she befriends a young American girl.

Carey will star alongside Kendall Vertes as Tana and Aliyah Moulden from TV show The Voice, who will write and perform original songs. Blake Harris directs, as he did on Little Mermaid.

Although rumours of the real Anastasia’s escape endured for years, in reality...

This is not the Disney live action version of The Little Mermaid. There are no talking crabs or adorable neon colored fish. This is the other live action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, based on Hans Christian Anderson’s original fairy tale. It looks… pretty much terrible, but maybe kind of wonderful? I don’t know. The setting (the circus in the South) and the apparent framing device (old person telling a story to younger relatives) do give me a sort of Big Fish vibe, which I love, but it also seems pretty much like a Feature Films for Families joint. I bet I would love it if I had grown up watching it without knowing it was bad, though. I still have affection for The Buttercream Gang after all.

This take on the classic follows a journalist and his little sister who travel to Mississippi to find a real mermaid.

“Beauty and the Beast” isn’t the only beloved Disney movie getting the live-action-remake treatment. Well, kind of: The upcoming “Little Mermaid” is being produced by Conglomerate Media and Kingsway Productions rather than Disney, but this new take on Hans Christian Andersen’s most famous fairy tale is heading to theaters all the same. Watch the trailer below.

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“Once long ago in the deep blue below,” begins Shirley MacLaine to two youths who claim that mermaids don’t exist. “You wouldn’t say that if you’d met one,” she responds. Here, the mermaid (Poppy Drayton, “Downton Abbey”) is a circus performer known as the Mermaid of Mississippi whose plight inspires a little girl to not only believe in the underwater creatures of myth but attempt to free this one from her captivity.

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William Moseley ("The Chronicles of Narnia," "The Royals") will join Shirley MacLaine and Poppy Drayton in Chris Bouchard's live-action family adventure "A Little Mermaid" at Mvp Studios.

Blake Harris' script is inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale and has Moseley playing a reporter who travels with his younger sister (Loreto Peralta) to a small Southern town where they discover an enchanting creature (Drayton) they believe to be the real 'Little Mermaid.'

MacLaine portrays an eccentric woman who has intimate knowledge of the story. Diahann Carroll, William Forsythe and Gina Gershon also star. Robert Molloy and Armando Gutierrez are producing the film which recently began production in Georgia.

This is not to be confused with the Chloe Moretz-led live-action adaptation in the works at Universal.

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Mvp Studios is mounting a new adaptation of “A Little Mermaid,” based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. “The Shannara Chronicles” star Poppy Drayton will star in the film alongside Loreto Peralta and Shirley MacLaine. Chris Bouchard is directing from a screenplay by Blake Harris. Also Read: 'The Shannara Chronicles' Star Austin Butler Explains Why Wil Keeps Falling for Eretria's Tricks Story follows a young orphan (Peralta) who discovers a beautiful and enchanting creature (played by Drayton) she believes to be the real “Little Mermaid.” MacLaine portrays Eloise, an eccentric woman who has intimate knowledge of the story.

Shirley MacLaine will star in a live-action rendition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale A Little Mermaid.

The film will come from Mvp Studios, a newly formed entertainment company founded by Robert Molloy and Armando Gutierrez.

Chris Bouchard will direct the pic, which was written by Blake Harris, and will also star Shannara Chronicles' Poppy Drayton and Loreto Peralta. 

Chloe Grace Moretz is set to star in a different Little Mermaid adaptation from Working Title that will come from director Rebecca Thomas.

Mvp's A Little Mermaid will be filmed entirely in Georgia; principal photography is set to begin in March.

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Shirley MacLaine will star in a live-action rendition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale A Little Mermaid.

The film will come from Mvp Studios, a newly formed entertainment company founded by Robert Molloy and Armando Gutierrez.

Chris Bouchard will direct the pic, which was written by Blake Harris, and will also star Shannara Chronicles' Poppy Drayton and Loreto Peralta. 

Chloe Grace Moretz is set to star in a different Little Mermaid adaptation from Working Title that will come from director Rebecca Thomas.

Mvp's A Little Mermaid will be filmed entirely in Georgia; principal photography is set to begin in March.

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I will always point out, if they can make a movie about Facebook highly entertaining, they can do just about anything. Now comes news that Author Blake Harris’ upcoming book on the history between the battle of Sega and Nintendo “Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation” will be made into a movie. Game on!

Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin (The Social Network) have picked up the movie rights, and have brought on Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to write and direct according to Booktrade.info.

Blake Harris draws on hundreds of interviews to present the first full account of this titanic corporate battle, which transformed computer games into a global industry that last year recorded sales of $50 billion (surpassing the film and music businesses combined).

I just want them to touch on these awesome ads from magazines that made no sense:

The game isn’t in the system!

Washington, February 25: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are set to adapt the upcoming book 'Console Wars' into a movie.

The business thriller, which depicts behind-the-scenes look into the battle between Sega and Nintendo, written by Blake J. Harris and has not been published yet, Contactmusic reported.

However, according to Book Trade, Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin have already picked up feature rights of the book. (Ani)...

Rogen to write and direct Console Wars, along with Evan Goldberg, about corporate battle over videogames in 1980s and 90s

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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are in line to write and direct a high-profile thriller about the battle between Sega and Nintendo for control of the lucrative 80s and 90s games console market.

Titled Console Wars, the film will be based on Blake Harris's forthcoming book Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation. Book trade.info reports: "Harris draws on hundreds of interviews to present the first full account of this titanic corporate battle, which transformed computer games into a global industry that last year recorded sales of $50bn (surpassing the film and music businesses combined)."

Rogen and Goldberg are best known for the cult comedy Superbad, in which Rogen also took a supporting role.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg recently wrote and directed "This Is The End" comedy and are now re-teaming for a new business thriller, called "Console Wars," based on a book by Blake Harris. The book chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry. The book will be released in August. Meanwhile, Rogen and Goldberg are at work on the script.

Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin have acquired Blake J. Harris’ upcoming book “Console Wars” and tapped Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to co-write and direct the behind-the-scenes tale of Nintendo’s battle with upstart video game maker Sega, the book’s U.K. publisher announced Monday. Atlantic Books will publish the business thriller “Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle That Defined a Generation” in August. Sega was a small, scrappy company led by an unlikely visionary in Tom Kalinske when it took on gaming juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry. Also read: Seth Rogen, James Franco,...

Targetting an often untapped market of millions of gamers, Sony Pictures is adapting the book "Console Wars" for the big screen.

Attached to both write the screenplay and direct are Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, though the book isn't even scheduled for release until August 2014.

In the business thriller, the story of Sega's attempt to overthrow videogame giant Nintendo is chronicled.

Expecting broad interest, Atlantic Books' publisher Toby Mundy says, "Blake Harris's amazing book has all the narrative drama of the work of Michael Lewis and Ben Mezrich. It should appeal to gamers and non-gamers alike."...

What's more epic than the battle between Heaven and Hell? Apparently the battle between Sega and Nintendo. According to Collider, filmmaking duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg will follow their apocalyptic 2013 smash This Is the End with Console Wars, a comedy about the rivalry between the Nineties' two most historic video game companies.

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The duo will direct and write the Sony-released film, adapting the script from Blake Harris' upcoming 2014 book, Console Wars: Sega,...

There are certain rivalries that never die, no matter how much time has passed, no matter what has happened in the world. Coke vs. Pepsi. Rocky Balboa vs. Ivan Drago. The Harlem Globetrotters vs. The Washington Generals. And then there’s the battle that raged on in the early 1990s, still lasting until this day, between the people who loved their Sega gaming systems, and the people sitting firmly in camp Nintendo. Best bros and collaborators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have recognized the significance of this era of gaming and are taking Console Wars to the big screen, a film that chronicles the deep, dark war between the established company with beloved franchises (Nintendo) and the scrappy arcade folks with big dreams and creative characters — Sega, who re-entered the scene with the Sega Mega Drive. Based on the book of the same name by Blake J. Harris, Console Wars starts off in 1990 with the arrival of...

News broke today that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who have previously collaborated on films like Superbad, Pineapple Express, and This Is The End, will team up yet again. This time they will make a movie about the '90s console wars. Right now the info released says the film's main plot will be centered around Sega vs. Nintendo. This movie will be based on a book written by Blake Harris which chronicled the battle between the two corporations throughout the '90s. The book has not been released yet, but it will come out later this year. Thinking back on the schoolyard tension surrounding the debate over the superiority of the Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo, I can't wait for more details on this film!

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg continue to line-up more work.  Word today from Collider is that the two men are going to be writing and directing an adaption of the upcoming book "Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation" by Blake J. Harris.  The non-fiction work is due out this May and details the battle between Sega and Nintendo in the early 1990s for space in the living rooms of video game enthusiasts.  The movie rights were bought by Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin who then brought on Rogen and Goldberg to write and direct.   It is a timely tale at this moment, with such wars between console producers still taking place today, even if the companies involved have changed. Last fall saw the launch of both the newest PlayStation, the PlayStation 4, from Sony and the latest Xbox, the Xbox One, from Microsoft. Sega got...

There are few industries within the world of entertainment quite like video games. The various consoles have battled for years, with the blips and bleeps of Atari giving way to a bloodthirsty struggle between the titans of Nintendo and the upstarts at Sega. That battle is chronicled in the book Console Wars by Blake J. Harris, detailing how Sega would rise up to challenge the Nintendo behemoth from the 16 bit era and beyond. And with the book scheduled to hit this August, that struggle is about to become a movie. Coming Soon reports that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are currently adapting the book into a screenplay with an eye on directing. The duo previously helmed This Is The End, which grossed $100 million last summer and got them the job working on the political comedy The Interview, where Rogen reunited with Pineapple Express co-star James Franco. Apparently people like what...

Back in the 1990s, a war was waged in living rooms and playgrounds across America. One side touted the power of Blast Processing, while the other countered with Mode 7 graphics. Ugly slogans were born (“Sega does what Nintendon’t”), friendships shattered, and an Italian plumber was forced to take on a spunky blue hedgehog (and no, I’m not talking about Ron Jeremy) in a fight for video game supremacy. It was the great console war – a battle for the hearts and minds of gamers that pitted the juggernaut-like Nintendo against upstart arcade game makers Sega, and nothing less than living room superiority was at stake. Author Blake Harris has written a thriller-esque recounting of this vicious battle between two Japanese corporations in his upcoming book...

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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have signed up to direct a movie version of Console Wars.

The Superbad filmmakers will helm the business thriller from Sony Pictures, which is based on Blake Harris's upcoming book of the same name.

The book is a behind-the-scenes look at how Sega took on Nintendo in the console market in the 1990s.

Sony acquired the film rights from Atlantic Books, which will publish Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation in May.

Captain Phillips and Social Network filmmaker Scott Rudin will produce the project.

Rogen and Goldberg previously directed and wrote This Is the End for Sony. They will also write the screenplay for Console Wars.

Blake Harris will executive produce the film version, while he is also co-directing a documentary on the same topic, with Rudin, Rogen and Goldberg producing.

While the console wars are nothing new nowadays, with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 being the latest to battle, back in the 1990s brought the first face-off between Sega and Nintendo, and launched a rivalry that would last years. Now the story of these two video game companies fighting for supremacy in quality games and graphics is heading to the big screen with Console Wars, and the comedic duo of Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (This is The End) will be directing and writing the film based on Blake J. Harris' book of the same name. In addition, The Social Network producer Scott Rudin is producing the project. Read on! Book Trade (via Kotaku) reported the news, and here's the book's synopsis: In 1990, Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was just a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities.

The creative partnership between Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg has led to many successful collaborations. Their most recent effort was This Is The End, which was absolutely hysterical and one of my favorite films from 2013. Currently, the duo is hard at work on Sausage Party, an animated comedy coming next year. Though production is still underway on that project, Rogen and Goldberg are already looking towards the future and according to Collider, they will be adapting Console Wars for their next outing together.

Based on the novel of the same name by Blake J. Harris, Scott Rudin will be producing with Goldberg and Rogen set to write and direct. As you can probably tell, the story follows the 1990s console war between Sony and Nintendo. You can check out the full plot summary below, courtesy of Amazon:

Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing,...

Video games continue to attract the attention of Hollywood, but this time instead of adapting one into a feature film, the games themselves will become the subject as Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are teaming to write and direct Console Wars based on the non-fiction book by Blake Harris, examining the rise of Sega in the face of Nintendo in the early '90s. Harris' book will hit bookshelves on May 13, 2014. Here's the synopsis: Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars--a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry. In 1990, Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was just a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. But...

In the 1990s, an arms race kicked off in the living room between videogame makers Sega and Nintendo. From the Sega Master System to the DreamCast, from the Nintendo Entertainment System to Nintendo 64, the fight for which company could boast the best graphics and games — and move the most units — raged between them as they angled for market share. (And shed a tear for anyone who tried to elbow their way in — sorry TurboGrafx 16). And now that story is booting up to the big screen. Scott Rudin will produce an adaptation of the book "Console Wars" by Blake J. Harris with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to write and direct. The pair are a pretty spot on choice for this gig; not only do they have the right geek credentials, they were coming of age right at the time of the Sega/Nintendo showdown which should give them a solid...

Sony Pictures and Scott Rudin ( Moneyball , The Social Network ) are developing Console Wars , an adaptation of the book by Blake Harris. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are attached to direct and are also writing the screenplay. Harris is serving as executive producer and is co-directing a documentary on the same subject, with Rudin, Rogen and Goldberg producing as well. Atlantic Books' publisher, Toby Mundy, last week acquired rights to the book, a riveting behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary, took on the juggernaut Nintendo. Atlantic will publish "Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation" in August 2014. In the book, Blake Harris draws on hundreds of...

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have picked up yet another project. Besides the Preacher television series for AMC and their animated R-rated comedy Sausage Party, Collider is reporting the duo will also write and direct an adaptation for the upcoming novel Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation. Written by Blake Harris, the book is about the epic battle between the two companies from the 1990s. Harris will executive produce Console Wars, and is also working on a...

Not content with developing both the Preacher TV series and their adult animation Sausage Party, Seth Rogen and Adam Goldberg have now picked up another gig. This one's for Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin, and will see the guys penning an adaptation of the forthcoming non-fiction book Console Wars, about the '90s rivalry between Sega and Nintendo.Blake Harris wrote the book, which will be published in August this year. Its full title is Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo And The Battle That Defined A Generation, and it deals with the corporate battles for market dominance over the arrivals of 16-bit consoles the Snes and the Sega Mega Drive. The saga more-or-less kicked off the $50bn industry we know today, and almost identical dramas are still played out with every new console generation, these days primarily between Sony and Microsoft.The author will get an exec-producer credit on the film,...

Sony Pictures is developing a film adaptation of Blake J. Harris' upcoming book "Console Wars".

Set in the early 1990s, this "behind-the-scenes business thriller" is set in a time when Nintendo dominated the gaming console market and a 'small and scrappy' competitor named Sega came in to take on the Japanese gaming giant.

"This Is The End" co-writers & directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg will adapt and helm the property which Scott Rudin will produce.

Harris will executive produce and co-direct a a documentary on the same topic which Rudin, Rogen and Goldberg will produce.

Source: IGN...