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How Hollywood learnt to love video games

How Hollywood learnt to love video games

While superhero franchises flag, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ shows the industry has finally cracked the formula for translating popular games into films.

Like cinema owners around the world, Brandon Jones is thrilled to see fans queueing up for tickets to see A Minecraft Movie, the first breakout hit in an otherwise dismal year for the industry.

But his excitement is tinged with anxiety as he thinks about what could happen to The New Canaan Playhouse, his lovingly restored, century-old cinema in Connecticut, when the audience hears actor Jack Black shout out the words “chicken jockey”.

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