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Amazon MGM Studios In Talks To Acquire Hot Video Game Package ‘Split Fiction’ Teaming Jon M. Chu & Sydney Sweeney
Split Fiction' will land at Amazon MGM Studios following a bidding war, sources tell Deadline. Sydney Sweeney and Jon M. Chu ...
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Sydney Sweeney-Starring Split Fiction Movie From Deadpool Writers Gets A Key Update
Fares has directed four games so far, including Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons for Starbreeze and then A Way Out, It Takes Two, ...
Amazon MGM Studios in talks to acquire Split Fiction movie with Sydney Sweeney
The Split Fiction movie with Sydney Sweeney and Jon M. Chu is on the verge of finding a new home at Amazon MGM Studios.
Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Split Fiction’ Movie Lands at Amazon
An adaptation of hit video game “Split Fiction” starring Sydney Sweeney and directed by Jon M. Chu has landed at Amazon MGM ...
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Raised in a Civil War, He Makes Games to Bring People Together
Josef Fares, whose family fled Lebanon for Sweden in the 1980s, began his career as a filmmaker before pouring his creative energy into cooperative video games. By Harold Goldberg Within a modern ...
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'Split Fiction' director wants video games to bring people together
“You are jumping between sci-fi and fantasy throughout the game — these two people are not a fan of each other's genre and are not a fan of each other,” says game director Josef Fares.
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Josef Fares doesn't care what EA thinks, he'll never make a live service game: 'It will not happen with a Hazelight game, ever'
Hazelight founder Josef Fares, known for his work on games including Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out, It Takes Two, and the upcoming Split Fiction (plus that whole Oscars moment at The ...
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‘Split Fiction’ is a dazzling leader in the revival of two-player gaming
As a former filmmaker now directing video games, Josef Fares is taking the hard road to creativity. “If I want to make another movie, it’ll be like going on vacation,” said Fares ...
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'I'll believe it when I see it' says Josef Fares about a Split Fiction movie: 'There’s a lot of talks, but nothing happens'
"Hollywood, there's so much bullshit," Hazelight founder Josef Fares told Eurogamer earlier this year. "I think 90 percent of the meetings are actually bullshit, and ten percent are what actually ...
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Josef Fares is bragging about how good Hazelight's next game is going to be (again): 'A lot of people say I'm cocky, but it's impossible to not be cocky when you have a game ...
and the creative lead and founder Josef Fares is now teasing an imminent reveal for all he's worth, and actually dropping a few details. Fares might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I love his ...
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Inside Hazelight at the climax of Split Fiction’s development, you can see how the seeds of a Game of the Year are sown
"The games industry shouldn’t be only about the money," says Josef Fares, drawing a line in the sand regarding how his studio approaches making games. As I hypothesized, I really do think it’s ...
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Josef Fares doesn't care what EA thinks, he'll never make a live service game: 'It will not happen with a Hazelight game, ever'
The Hazelight chief knows companies have to make money, but wants to see more developers focusing on "what they believe in." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...