The Movies Remake?

[JohnMac]

Thoughts?

[tilarium]

No. Because the rights are owned by Microsoft. Now, a spiritual successor, totally.

[bhns]

Is it actually made by the same people or is it another movie tycoon esque game that will forever be set on TBA

[JohnMac]

Different devs, the original was made by Lionhead Studios. They look incredibly similar though in many aspects.

[Funrir Woulfe]

The Movies (tm) was Lionhead Studios & Activision, Microsost doesn't own it at all or they would of not let it become Abandonware in the first place ... Not if they can make a BUCK off of it seeing as people remember it was a thing back in the day ;-)

This kinda looks like if there was an upgrade / 2.0 version make for newer computers, granted the old game still runs, just not 100% in currant Windows, less you mod it a lot for current 16x9 screens & so forth, my version is heavily modded to work on Win 10

Anyway ... looking in the future to how this plays / makes films ... Hey you know it's has to be a feature, maybe not long films but still ... Also the fact that people watch it, that wasn't in The Movies (tm) Test screening would be nice so you can go back & make changes to your film before release

The trailer looks promising that's for sure

[Mel]

Originally posted by Funrir Woulfe:

The Movies (tm) was Lionhead Studios & Activision, Microsost doesn't own it at all or they would of not let it become Abandonware in the first place ...

Activision is now known as Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft finally in October '23, so it is correct that Microsoft now owns the rights.

[Funrir Woulfe]

Activison abandoned the game LONG before MS bought them so they don't own the rights, Mostly because Lionhead fell apart back in the day, bad management type deal.

Only place to get The Movies (tm) is abandonware sites, if MS did own it they'd sue the pants off of the sites that have it for download for free 'cause that's how MS works.

They would make it availible for sale if they owned it outright, and it's not for sale anywhere as far as I know, unless it's the old disks sold by the person who bought it back in the day.

Ect Etc Etc

[Krampus]

I loved The Movies, could never find anything that quite captured it. I hope this game comes to fruition. I need to look for these sites...

[shane]

Activision still owns The Movies and could theoretically do a sequel or remake if they wanted, but it wasn't financially viable for them, so they pulled it from Steam so they don't have to bother with it. Eventually it ended up as abandonware, which they could technically sue over if they really wanted, but there are no damages because they're not making any money from it.

For a smaller studio, I could see them making a success out of this. There is still an audience, even if it is not COD-level audience.

[Blue-Eyes White Guy]

I have been WAITING FOREVER for something like this. Couldn't ever get the makeshift "The Movies" downloads to work. So stoked.