It's a videogame coming out this October which YOU will be in the director's chair of a major budgeted movie. Form the screenshots I have seen it looks like it's going to be AWESOME. you can choose from six genres of movies and you'll start out in the 1920's with low budget special effects and hopefully work your way up to 2003 with Matrix style bullet time effects. I am most definately psyched up for this game since, being a screenwriter living in the country, have a chance to get my screenplay on a screen.

For more information go to Gamespot.com and type in "The Movies".. sorry i dont have a direct link...i'm too lazy...

I cant wait for it

It looks pretty cool. 'Super Kicky Action Flick' may yet see the light of day.

haha. I just want to make a texas chainsaw massacre like movie in the 1930s. It'll probably bomb, and I'll probably be sent to jail. ahahhaha.

It'll be better than the remake at any rate.

True...true

I don't understand.  Do you try to direct actual people that you are filming, or are you directing CGI folks in the game?  Someone help me, I am very comfused indeed.

The game is being made by the same guys who made Black & White and, if you're like me, that game was one of your favorites. You played in almost a Sim-like world as either a good God or bad God.

In The Movies it is a combination of The Sims and Sim City really. You build a studio and try to make money, and at the same time make your own movies. It will sort of be a resource management sim with a do-whatever-you-want sim (with your movies, anyway). You essentially take the pieces you want and put them together until you have a movie you like, while trying to build up a studio empire.

My 'I Have No Live Productions' will make Universal look pathetic!

Cool, thanks for sorting it all out.

So I don't get it... What all will you actually be able to do with this software? Can you make any movie that you want? How will you be able to do so?

For instance... what if you "sicko's" wanted to make a porno? Or... What if someone like R.E. wanted to make a ZOMBIE movies?

how would this stuff work out, as in shots and scenes and getting the people to do your bidding?

I think it's a neat little concept, but like videogames all in all... it'll be flawed. I don't play games, cause I feel they are a waste of good time and money. I also don't play them cause they are not at a stage where I feel they can hold my interest.

I played a game called splinter cell... and it was really shallow, almost to the point where everything was near pre-determined already. You just walk around and shoot or choke someone and that's it. Everything you could interact with was made to interact with, sort of like use it or lose it stuff.

Videogames are to basic still. They are not anywhere near simulating actual life and at this point, it'll never get there. I still love the classi 2-d games, but since SATURN, SONY & NINTENDO introduced 3-d gaming, it's went nowhere for me.

I feel that the xbox, ps2 and gc are all the same systems as before with a little more graphic quality. And in some cases, not even that.

I don't look for the new systems to change this much either. I think they will have little to maybe even no graphical change. It'll all be RAM, MEMORY, and TEXTURE upgrades. I don't see us ever reaching movie quality graphics with vast game engines, ever!

I don't think you can make ANY kind of movie you want. I think they have pre-written scripts that you choose from, but you can choose how to film it (camera angles, lighting, etc.), I think at least. It'll probably be a good game. I mean, I don't think you can just be like "I wan't to make The Godfather all over again" because there are probably a certain number of sets in the game. Although, games like these always have expansion packs that follow.

Okay, this is how it goes.  You choose the type of movie you want to do, and they have several prewritten "scripts" already for every combination of types you could do.  Then after that, you get to "write" the "script".  It is done like this: There are so many scenes, and they all serve a certain function.  You choose which scenes to use, how long a shot will be, the possibilities are endless, and I'm not kidding.  The scenes are built around sequences, and you basically create a "blueprint" for the film.  Then it's shot when you choose actors from that period and sets.  And, then it's released, and based on what was popular and what was good then decides how it did.  Like, if you released a terrorist movie right after september eleventh, chances are it wouldn't do too well, and stuff like that.  So, this game is going to do something only two games have done in the past.  The game is going to make you think, you're going to have to be smart to be good at this game.  I'ma see if I can pre-order it.

I'd love to make a Spaghetti Western, on this or in real life.  I love spaghetti westerns.  I had my shot at filmmaking...ten years ago, and it didn't work out, so this'll be okay, I geuss.

For me it all boils down to one thing: on Electric Playground yesterday they interviewed the guy who designed it. During the preview, there was a black and white zombie flick.

I nearly wet myself.

There's also a sandbox mode where you can just make a movie and don't have to worry about profits or what time period it's in. From what i heard, if you get the PC version you don't have to use a script but choose what you want a certain actor to do and film it. The PC version will be the best also because you can record your own voices on it and they'll have tons of expansion packs to create your own props own actors etc. If you don't have any voice microphone things then you can choose from over 3000  different lines and if you don't want to make props you can choose from over 3000 of them to from what I heard. The only thing is that the PC version would take up a tonage of space

You don't have to use a script in PC mode, but I'd probably do so anyway.  Yeah, the PC version will be the best, simply because it works best in that mode, you know what I mean?  And also it won't take up too much space, i won't use a lot of the expansion packs, simply because i'm lazy, but it wouldn't take up too much, you wouldn't have to worry about not being able to save a word file or anything.

This game is going to be pivotal for the future of machinima.

Sounds as lame as Pizza Tycoon. I doubt you will have much control. The only thing that would make it interesting is if you coul play online and compete with other player/filmmakers.

"Sounds as lame as Pizza Tycoon. I doubt you will have much control. The only thing that would make it interesting is if you coul play online and compete with other player/filmmakers."

You do have complete control over how to shoot the movie.

It's night and day compared to Activision's Pizza Tycoon. That was just a low-budget game from Activision's Value line. The Movies has been worked on for a couple of years now, and if it pulls off what it is says it will be - then it should set the standard for AI in simulation games from now on....

And it's from the guy who did Black & White, I mean, come on. That game was awesome! (and sick, depending on how you played. . . ahem. . . children don't fly as far as adults. . . ahem. . .)

True, I had sort of like an interview with him, he's truly a great mind, if he wasn't such a pc genius and would be interested in hollywood instead, he would make a fortune with good movies.
Dungeon Keeper is the best =p

I've never played Black and White.  Is it like a Ku Klux Klan game or something?

lol

Looks promising.  Looks very addicting like The Sims, which I was addicted to for a year.