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FOR STUDIOS, THE NAME OF THE GAME IS GAMES Wednesday, April 6 2005 The motion picture industry is still looking for a formula to port its movies to the video game platform. According to a study by market researchers The NPD Group reported in today's (Wednesday) Los Angeles Daily News, The Matrix video game sold about 2 million units. By contrast, sales of the "pure" video game Halo totaled $125 million on the first day it hit the shelves. "It took Spider-Man four days to do that [at (more) BRANDO RECORDED VOICE TRACKS FOR GODFATHER GAME Thursday, February 3 2005 
Despite
a
report
on
Wednesday
that
in
1972
Marlon
Brando
had
originally
refused
an
offer
to
appear
as
Don
Corleone
in
The
Godfather
because
he
didn't
want
to
"glorify
the
Mafia,"
he
recorded
voice
tracks
for
a
video
game
shortly
before
his
death
which
may
appear
to
do
just
that.
Game
publishers
Electronic
Arts
confirmed
Wednesday
that
Brando
had
recorded
the
tracks
for
a
game
in
which
the
players
take
the
role
of
aspiring
mobsters
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Francis Ford Coppola is up in arms over Paramount's decision to produce (with videogame makers Electronic Arts) a videogame based on his The Godfather movies. In a taped interview due to air on AMC's Sunday Morning ShootOut this Sunday, Coppola said that the studio had never mentioned its plans to release a Godfather videogame. "I knew nothing about it. They never asked me if I thought it was a good idea," Coppola said." Calling Coppola's movie, "one of history's most revered masterpieces," Electronic Arts says on it website that the game, due to be released in the fall, "serves as inspiration for the game as gamers will join the Corleone family and earn respect through loyalty and fear." Coppola says that he was able to get a preview of the game. "They use the characters everyone knows ... and then for the next hour they shoot and kill each other. I had absolutely nothing to do with the game and I disapprove."
