The 'Gates' to Hollywood?

I just was reading through some older articles on SlashDot ( http://www.slashdot.org ), and found this interesting piece. Should be interesting to Som & Roshan as they're the two people who spent quite some time in the lab getting Halo around. ;-)

"On the back of the story about the Halo competition, Microsoft are reported to have reached a deal with Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox to make a movie based on Halo and Halo-2. Apparently, Microsoft initially wanted $10 million plus 15% of the box office revenue but the deal was struck when the two studios teamed up and offered $5 million and 10% of initial box office revenue. Apparently, the formal announcement will take a further week after creative issues are agreed between the three parties involved."

The original story is on Yahoo! News: Microsoft nears movie deal for..

Wonder how many pies will MS stick their fingers into? ;-)

posted by Shashank Shekhar @ 11:53 PM