Jon S. Baird’s Apple+ movie about the journey of one man who went through a grueling process of acquiring the rights to a game from beyond the Iron Curtain to have it published for the entire world, called “Tetris,” has just premiered, and it’s a surprisingly accurate telling of the actual events. The story follows the CEO of Bullet-Proof Software, Henk Rogers’s (Taron Egerton) journey from being a small-time game publisher to being the joint owner of the most famous video game in the world. With multiple transactions and a lot of deals happening throughout the movie, it may get difficult to keep track, so here’s a detailed explanation of all the possible queries you might’ve had while enjoying this almost entirely accurate adaptation of a true story.
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How Did Henk Find Out About Tetris?
In 1988, while trying to attract crowds to a game he had published,...
Spoilers Ahead
How Did Henk Find Out About Tetris?
In 1988, while trying to attract crowds to a game he had published,...
- 4/2/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
Most of us like to play games, whether it is for relaxation or entertainment, and if it gives us money, all the better. Do you remember the “Maze Runner” trilogy where Thomas, the protagonist, is placed in a maze with no memory of the outside world? He tries to put together the ideas that come to him through his dreams and plans an escape from the maze into the real world. Observing his varied moves and the obstacles that he faces allows the viewer to be creative and think of possible plans of action to find an escape.
So it is with “Tetris,” When you feel that the characters are playing against each other, you just want the real hero to win. But the real hero in this game is Alexey Pajitnov, who has nothing to gain or lose. Nevertheless, we have another hero who wants to make a fortune out of Tetris,...
So it is with “Tetris,” When you feel that the characters are playing against each other, you just want the real hero to win. But the real hero in this game is Alexey Pajitnov, who has nothing to gain or lose. Nevertheless, we have another hero who wants to make a fortune out of Tetris,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Carlos Luis
- Film Fugitives
Jon S. Baird has just closed Twitter. The trailer for Tetris was released an hour ago, and the director’s been watching the online reaction closely ever since. There’s one joke that everyone seems to be making—where are the talking tetriminos?
“It’s absolutely not that at all,” the Scottish filmmaker tells Den of Geek with a laugh. “I hear that a lot, but I like that people are noticing that it’s a bit different.”
Tetris is certainly a different proposition from other video game movies. Rather than being about falling blocks that need to neatly fit into lines, Tetris tells the story of Henk Rogers, the mustachioed man who secured the rights to distribute the eponymous game around the world. While that doesn’t exactly sound like the plot of a fun thriller at first glance, the fight to get Tetris on the Game Boy took...
“It’s absolutely not that at all,” the Scottish filmmaker tells Den of Geek with a laugh. “I hear that a lot, but I like that people are noticing that it’s a bit different.”
Tetris is certainly a different proposition from other video game movies. Rather than being about falling blocks that need to neatly fit into lines, Tetris tells the story of Henk Rogers, the mustachioed man who secured the rights to distribute the eponymous game around the world. While that doesn’t exactly sound like the plot of a fun thriller at first glance, the fight to get Tetris on the Game Boy took...
- 3/12/2023
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
With a history spanning over half a century, the video game industry has grown significantly from its humble beginnings of Pong and Atari.
Oscar winner Daniel Jung's latest documentary, Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars, premieres on History on Sunday night, telling the story of the video game industry's early successes, failures, rivalries and lawsuits between gaming giants such as Atari, Nintendo, Sega and Sony.
Featuring new interviews with Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell; former head of Nintendo of America, Howard Lincoln; and former head of Sega of America, Tom Kalinske, the doc tells, in chronological order, how ...
Oscar winner Daniel Jung's latest documentary, Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars, premieres on History on Sunday night, telling the story of the video game industry's early successes, failures, rivalries and lawsuits between gaming giants such as Atari, Nintendo, Sega and Sony.
Featuring new interviews with Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell; former head of Nintendo of America, Howard Lincoln; and former head of Sega of America, Tom Kalinske, the doc tells, in chronological order, how ...
- 6/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In his new memoir, “Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City,” filmmaker, author, and professor Brandon Harris explores his unique coming-of-age in the city — and community — that he loves. Incidentally and not at all accidentally, the book includes a reflections on a number of essential films that shaped Harris’ journey, from Spike Lee joints to underappreciated indies and even Hal Ashby’s “The Landlord.”
In celebration of the book, Harris has also curated a series at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse under the same title, featuring four films that speak directly to his novel and his experience, including tonight’s screening of “The Landlord.”
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In celebration of the book, Harris has also curated a series at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse under the same title, featuring four films that speak directly to his novel and his experience, including tonight’s screening of “The Landlord.”
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- 6/12/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Over five years ago, on Wednesday, March 9th, 2011, John Fell Ryan and Akiva Saunders premiered their experiment The Shining: Forwards and Backwards. At the Williamsburg, Brooklyn locale The Spectacle Theater they screened Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece from start to finish and vice versa simultaneously and superimposed on one another. Perhaps to the surprise of some, the results were fascinating enough to lead to many more screenings, including one at Fantastic Fest in 2012, as well as being featured in Rodney Ascher‘s Room 237.
The various oddities and strange occurrences that crop up when playing the film this way have been exhaustively explored by its own the creator (see here and beyond), and if you haven’t yet seen it this way, today is your chance. Editor Vashi Nedomansky made his own version and while we can’t imagine it’ll survive online for too long due to copyright issues,...
The various oddities and strange occurrences that crop up when playing the film this way have been exhaustively explored by its own the creator (see here and beyond), and if you haven’t yet seen it this way, today is your chance. Editor Vashi Nedomansky made his own version and while we can’t imagine it’ll survive online for too long due to copyright issues,...
- 10/27/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
30 years ago today, Ripley returned, as badass as ever. On July 18, 1986, Aliens hit theaters, giving audiences a movie that kept the blossoming franchise fresh as it transitioned from sci-fi horror to sci-fi action. This time around, Ripley had a surrogate daughter to protect and a new alien queen to battle, while Sigourney Weaver had a producing credit and a bigger voice in the development of the James Cameron-directed sequel to the 1979 Ridley Scott movie. Ripley paved the way for future action heroines, including Furiosa of last year’s Mad Max: Fury Road. For a HitFix debate of which of the two is a better hero, check out this video. Aliens will get a 30th anniversary celebration at San Diego Comic-Con with a reunion of Cameron, Weaver, and more cast members. Also, announced today, the Comic-Con panel will be live-streamed and available to watch on YouTube inside our outside the convention center this Saturday.
- 7/18/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
Another year, another slew of pixelated pretenders to the throne. Ahead of the event taking place on February 18, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has locked down the list of finalists nominated for the 19th annual Dice awards ceremony.
Pinpointing the crème de la crème, the prestigious company has nominated 53 games in total, a star-studded list toplined by Rise of the Tomb Raider and CD Projekt Red’s critically-adorned masterpiece The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, with the pair topping the pack with eight nominations a piece. You can check out the full list below.
There are also plans in place to posthumously commemorate the late, great Saturo Iwata with the Lifetime Achievement Award, a prestigious award that has only been handed out to five other talents in the industry: Bing Gordon (EA founder), Doug Lowenstein (Esa founder), Ken Kutaragi (former PlayStation president), Minoru Arakawa (former Nintendo of America president), and...
Pinpointing the crème de la crème, the prestigious company has nominated 53 games in total, a star-studded list toplined by Rise of the Tomb Raider and CD Projekt Red’s critically-adorned masterpiece The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, with the pair topping the pack with eight nominations a piece. You can check out the full list below.
There are also plans in place to posthumously commemorate the late, great Saturo Iwata with the Lifetime Achievement Award, a prestigious award that has only been handed out to five other talents in the industry: Bing Gordon (EA founder), Doug Lowenstein (Esa founder), Ken Kutaragi (former PlayStation president), Minoru Arakawa (former Nintendo of America president), and...
- 1/13/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Blaine Gibson, who launched his career at the Walt Disney Studios in 1939 in the animation department and went on to become a Imagineering superstar with his extraordinarily lifelike sculptures for Audio-Animatronics figures at the company's theme parks, has died. He was 97. Gibson died July 5 from age-related illness at his home in Montecito, Calif., according to Walt Disney Animation Studios vp communications Howard Green. Gibson’s sculptures were used for such Disney theme park attractions as Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Haunted Mansion, It’s a Small World and Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki
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- 7/8/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Catch a few glimpses of A.J. Edwards’ directorial debut, The Better Angels, and you could be tricked into thinking you’re watching a Terrence Malick film. As the end credits attest, Malick is the primary producer, although his name’s appearance once the film fades to black feels redundant. More intimate in scope but just as evocative and stunningly photographed as his rural-set modern classics, The Better Angels owes much of its feeling to the director’s mentor. And, that is not always a bad thing. However, one gets the feeling that the new filmmaker is more impressed with Malick than Abraham Lincoln, whose pre-pubescent life is the focus of this first feature.
The film opens in 1817 in the Indiana backwoods where a young boy explores the wilderness, paddling down the river and playing in the fields. When he sticks out his chin, it is clear from an uncanny resemblance...
The film opens in 1817 in the Indiana backwoods where a young boy explores the wilderness, paddling down the river and playing in the fields. When he sticks out his chin, it is clear from an uncanny resemblance...
- 11/6/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Mark your calendars, The Walking Dead fans: Hunting season begins October 12.
That’s the underlying message of the Season 5 key art AMC just released for its zombie-tastic smash, and we’ve got your first look.
Related Fall TV Spoilerpalooza: Exclusive Scoop and Photos From 42 Returning Favorites, Including The Walking Dead
“It feels thrilling to be able to be the leader, a man who is in doubt about his decision-making and what he is capable of doing to keep his family alive,” series star Andrew Lincoln told TVLine while previewing his Season 5 arc at San Diego Comic-Con last month. “And I...
That’s the underlying message of the Season 5 key art AMC just released for its zombie-tastic smash, and we’ve got your first look.
Related Fall TV Spoilerpalooza: Exclusive Scoop and Photos From 42 Returning Favorites, Including The Walking Dead
“It feels thrilling to be able to be the leader, a man who is in doubt about his decision-making and what he is capable of doing to keep his family alive,” series star Andrew Lincoln told TVLine while previewing his Season 5 arc at San Diego Comic-Con last month. “And I...
- 9/2/2014
- TVLine.com
While horror anthologies have recently become more commonplace, V/H/S really become the first surprise indie hit to kickstart the fad. Movies like The ABCs Of Death and The Theater Bizarre have since terrified with their own unique anthology ideas, but V/H/S made the ballsiest move of all by taking horror’s most overplayed subgenre – found footage – and turning it into a spooky centerpiece. Despite my qualms, I still found V/H/S ripe with positives, giving directors a gleeful genre playground to run about freely – and V/H/S/2 only upped the ante.
So if V/H/S opened the door, and V/H/S/2 spread the disease, how could a third film possibly get any worse? I’ll tell you – the videos can go viral.
Aptly titled V/H/S Viral, today brings the first glimpses of action from what’s being called the last...
So if V/H/S opened the door, and V/H/S/2 spread the disease, how could a third film possibly get any worse? I’ll tell you – the videos can go viral.
Aptly titled V/H/S Viral, today brings the first glimpses of action from what’s being called the last...
- 5/14/2014
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Wow. A pretty upsetting conclusion last night, assuming we’re all assuming the same thing. The Mother and Ted are once again weekending at the Farhampton Inn, this time in the winter of 2024, and realizing with a mix of pride and sadness that by now they know all of each other’s stories. I was tempted to make a crack about cheapskate Ted (“Maybe my old friend Mr. Lincoln can emancipate that information”) and his refusal to take his wife on a real vacation — by my count, this is their fourth return to Farhampton. Then the destination took on a new significance.At one point, amid the bantering, the Mother says, “I just worry about you. I don’t want you to be the guy who lives in his stories. Life only moves forward.” It was an oddly sobering sentiment. Was she jealous of a past she wasn’t a part of?...
- 3/4/2014
- by Phoebe Reilly
- Vulture
I know I got out of the weekly "How I Met Your Mother" review business, but I said I would make exceptions for episodes that were notably very good or very bad. We got one of those two tonight, and I have a review of it coming up just as soon as my old friend Mr. Lincoln emancipates that information... Because I'm putting my kids to bed when primetime begins, I virtually never watch "Himym" live anymore, and by the time I get out my laptop to watch, Twitter is already asking me leading questions about each episode. In a season like this, the advantage is that I get early warning if an episode is going to be especially dire — or, on occasions like "Platonish," early enticement to watch and surprisingly enjoy myself. It also means I've gotten spoiled from time to time... ... and in the case of "Vesuvius," I...
- 3/4/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
In easily the better of the two Assault on President 13 films out last year White House Down gets a Blu-ray and DVD release on Monday and we’re using this moment as a springboard to look at the all the precedents; men who have taken on the mantle of the most powerful man in the world.
Roland Emmerich, the man in charge of peppering the White House and most of its staff with bombs and bullets, is no stranger to this particular arena. I remember well sitting in a crowded cinema about to watch Judge Dredd (Stallone/Helmetless version) and seeing the trailer for Independence Day, complete with the utter destruction of the White House. Jaws were dropped. Bill Pullman’s President Whitmore gave a rousing speech to a bunch of half drunk hicks and massively over-excited patriots in Air Force uniforms and won the day. In 2009′s 2012 the director...
Roland Emmerich, the man in charge of peppering the White House and most of its staff with bombs and bullets, is no stranger to this particular arena. I remember well sitting in a crowded cinema about to watch Judge Dredd (Stallone/Helmetless version) and seeing the trailer for Independence Day, complete with the utter destruction of the White House. Jaws were dropped. Bill Pullman’s President Whitmore gave a rousing speech to a bunch of half drunk hicks and massively over-excited patriots in Air Force uniforms and won the day. In 2009′s 2012 the director...
- 1/17/2014
- by Simon Williams
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” – attributed to Mark Twain
There are times when the internet overreacts to things. In most cases, the overreaction is unjustified. Even if it is against a legitimately unpleasant act, like racism or other acts of cruelty, usually the reaction is wildly overblown, one that can often have a blowback effect and make the target seem like the one that has been wronged.
But this one…
Now, in reading the original article, one sees that this is not even a rumor, but the writer’s own Clever Theory. It’s a pure ass-pull by the writer of what he thinks May happen. But as soon as the article passes through one round of Chinese Whispers, it’s turned into a “rumor”, and I’m sure within a couple more, it’ll pop up with...
There are times when the internet overreacts to things. In most cases, the overreaction is unjustified. Even if it is against a legitimately unpleasant act, like racism or other acts of cruelty, usually the reaction is wildly overblown, one that can often have a blowback effect and make the target seem like the one that has been wronged.
But this one…
Now, in reading the original article, one sees that this is not even a rumor, but the writer’s own Clever Theory. It’s a pure ass-pull by the writer of what he thinks May happen. But as soon as the article passes through one round of Chinese Whispers, it’s turned into a “rumor”, and I’m sure within a couple more, it’ll pop up with...
- 1/7/2014
- by Vinnie Bartilucci
- Comicmix.com
Today, we bring Daily Dead readers a lengthy excerpt from Fiddlehead, the latest novel from Boneshaker author Cherie Priest:
“Award-winning author Cherie Priest returns with Fiddlehead (A Tor Trade Paperback Original; $14.99; On Sale: November 12, 2013) – the fifth and final thrilling volume in the series that began with Boneshaker. New readers and returning fans can immerse themselves in a very different 19th century America where the Civil War still drags on, featuring prominent historical figures – like Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant – as characters. In Fiddlehead, you’re invited to travel back in time for a rousing adventure, ending in a nail-biting finale you can’t miss.
Ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but it’s a less glamorous job than you’d think, especially since someone tried to kill him for it. Worse yet, they tried to destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine called the Fiddlehead, which offers undeniable...
“Award-winning author Cherie Priest returns with Fiddlehead (A Tor Trade Paperback Original; $14.99; On Sale: November 12, 2013) – the fifth and final thrilling volume in the series that began with Boneshaker. New readers and returning fans can immerse themselves in a very different 19th century America where the Civil War still drags on, featuring prominent historical figures – like Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant – as characters. In Fiddlehead, you’re invited to travel back in time for a rousing adventure, ending in a nail-biting finale you can’t miss.
Ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but it’s a less glamorous job than you’d think, especially since someone tried to kill him for it. Worse yet, they tried to destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine called the Fiddlehead, which offers undeniable...
- 11/26/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
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