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Article: Microsoft thinks 'Halo' still shines with movie potential.(Microsoft Corp. to launch new video game "Halo")
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 30, 2006
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ARE Microsoft's very deep pockets enough to bring one of the video game industry's most popular games to the big screen?
The Redmond, Wash., software giant may now be on its own in its effort to produce a picture based on its "Halo" game following the departures of Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox over budget worries; the film was shaping up to have a $175 million price tag.
But Microsoft Corp., which introduced the first-person shooter game as a launch title to its Xbox gaming system in 2001, claims it still wants to move forward, whether it has a studio attached or not.
Microsoft already shelled out $1 million for the screenplay before ...