20th Century Fox failed to cash in on the love of gamers for Street Fighter IV. The Legend of Chun-Li movie struck an overwhelming disappointment with moviegoers this weekend. How bad? Let's just say that three of Uwe Boll's movies beat its opening gross. And that's without adjustments for inflation.

Ouch.

Just after filming X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 20th Century Fox movie exec Jeff Katz talks about the upcoming title based on the movie. Read up on his take on making the video game fit for the bad boy of the X-Men.

As you guys probably suspected, Take-Two Interactive did attempt to make a movie adaptation of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto game franchise.

While the details regarding this movie are well within the realm of speculation, they still make for a good read. More info available in the full article.

Responding to rumors that the movie adaptation for Hitman would be losing its director, Xavier Gens, Variety has let out the word that he is still "on board." According to the grapevine, the first version of the movie was too violent and editor Nicholas De Toth was brought in to provide a tamer version.

Although De Toth was hired as a "consultant," there is still some speculation as to whether he or Gens has the final say on the final version of the movie. De Toth also held the same position for the movie Live Free or Die Hard. Incidentally both movies are from Fox.

At any rate, the movie is still going out with a solid R rating so even if the violence was watered down at least we know it still has a kick. Besides, it might not be in the studio's best interests to try and release the movie with anything less than an R rating when the game itself is rated M.

The sneak peek apparently wasn't enough, 'cause 20th Century Fox has reportedly now gone all the way for "Family Guy" to be on Microsoft's Xbox Live. Yup, the other dysfunctional all-American family will be moving in on the green machine as downloadable content come September 2 - only a couple of days away from now.

The executives over at Fox have proclaimed that "[i]t's about as perfect a demographic fit as we can get." And we totally get that point. After all, the fans of the cartoon, which revolves on the satirical and unconventional everyday lives of the Griffin family, have a strong fanbase of 18-34 years old. That would be the same as the demographic of the gaming industry. So really, it's just a matter of simple math: 1 +1 = 2. Cartoon + gamers = cartoon on game console.

So, what's included in this oh-so-sweet deal? Apart from the first two seasons available for purchase, there's also the straight-to-DVD film "Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", which will cost you 160 Microsoft Points (about US$ 2). But if you would prefer the DVD copy, then "Family Guy Season Five" will be available on September 18, to coincide with the debut of the show's new episodes.

Will this mean that the once-dropped Halo movie will become reality soon? 20th Century Fox, helped by its licensing relationship with Microsoft, managed to get the licensing rights to the Halo franchise. Fox will be rolling out various Halo merchandise, such as apparel, books, and even collectibles (Spawn's Todd McFarlane will provide Halo 3 figurines).

With the immense popularity of the Halo franchise, Fox believes that they will be able to distribute and sell Halo products up to the release of the fourth Halo game.

There is no mention about the production of a Halo movie, however. There were plans for a Halo movie last year which was supposed to be produced by both Fox and Universal, but was eventually dropped into obscurity.

Back in October, we shared with you the not-so-good news that the Halo movie was put on hold after it failed to seal a movie franchise deal with 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures. After this development, not much has been said about the planned movie which is supposed to be directed by Neill Blomkamp (who directed Alive in Joburg). But recently, Peter Jackson (the movie's would-be producer) talked to Stuff website about it.

Jackson believes that since Halo 3 is going to be released later this year, 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures would again be interested with the movie project. If that's the case, then Halo 3 sure does have a lot of weight on its shoulders since analysts also believe that the game's sales performance would bring Microsoft's Xbox Division out of constant losses.

The Lord of the Rings director also said that he and partner Fran Walsh will only choose to be involved with the Halo movie project if Blomkamp would be the guy calling the shots. Jackson said, "We wouldn't want to do it with anybody else. It'll be Neill's call".

Well, that's all we have for now but we'll surely give you updates about this as soon as we get more info. For now, you're free to speculate if the movie would push through or be forever shelved.

With the movie production well under way, Fox Pictures was willing to give a sneak peek at the celluloid adaptation of the Hitman series. The press release places 47 in the middle of a conspiracy, in the sights of a lot of people with guns, and in the arms of a woman - oh, great, the de rigeur loven interest in a thriller.

Our favorite cue-ball assassin finds himself "caught up in a political takeover," and hunted by officers of Interpol and the Russian military (Guess we know now which country's politics gets the takeover, don't we?). The game - er, movie - is set to take place across Eastern Europe (hence, the shooting locations) as 47 tries to discover what the heck happened, who set him up, and what's with the "beautiful, damaged girl" and him.

Quite the beautiful girl, too, portrayed by Olga Kurylenko. Just dropped by IMDB to confirm that.

Eggs, tech, and aliens. Add in a blue, mach-speed rodent, and you'd think we're talking about the next Sonic game, except it's not. Sega just announced they're be tossing in their two cents and are currently working on multiple games based on the highly popular "Alien" movie franchise by 20th Century Fox.

While there aren't any details on what's cooking in Sega's development lair, there are talks that two specific genres for the line-up would include an FPS and an RPG, and that the games would be targetted for the PC, and next-gen console market.

"We haven't finalized anything at this point, but everything is on the table," said Sega's business development VP Rob Lightner,  "It's important for everyone to understand the difference here: We're taking licensing to the next level with this franchise."

In connection to this comment, Lightner also mentioned that Sega was contacting famous personalities from the past Alien films - people like Sigourney Weaver (Ripley) and Lance Henriksen (Bishop) - to lend their image and likeness to the games in the works.

And for the fans out there, Sega's "Alien" game senior producer Mike Gallo comments that the game's won't be exclusively tied in to the four previous "Alien" films, but will instead be drawing its story elements from the backstory that created this films in the first place (anybody remember the AVP novels?).

"We're also looking at all 'Alien' source material for inspiration, in addition to the films. We may incorporate some characters that fans know and love, and we may let gamers find answers to questions that were left unanswered in the movies."

Vin Diesel facts: Riddick to most, Melkor to the D&D community, real name Mark Sinclair Vincent III. And for the videogaming community, up until now, the iRL face of one of gaming's most notorious cue-balls - Agent 47 of the Hitman game series. Did we mention he uses a gun and bucket for blood donations?

Unfortunately, as hinted in the clause "up until now," it ain't the case anymore. We just got word on the web that instead of casting Vin, the Hitman: Bloody Money movie production will be be picking actor Timothy Olyphant, famous for his role as Seth Bullock in the Deadwood TV series.

In related news, Swordfish writer Skip Woods will still be providing for the movie' screenplay. Co-producers for the film as of now include Luc Besson (The Fifth Element), Chuck Gordon, Adrian Askarieh, and Daniel Alter. Expect this 20th Century Fox film to be coming in as early as next year's fall.