Midway and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Announce Multi-Platform Publishing Agreement for the Ant Bully
August 04 2005 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Console, Handheld and PC Games to Ship with Upcoming Computer
Animated Film from Warner Bros. Pictures Midway Games Inc. and
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced a
multi-territory publishing agreement that grants Midway the rights
to publish interactive games for console, handheld and PC platforms
based on the upcoming computer animated motion picture The Ant
Bully. "We are very pleased to be partnering with Warner Bros.
Interactive Entertainment to bring The Ant Bully into the
interactive space," said Midway president and chief executive
officer David F. Zucker. "Midway is looking forward to publishing
great games based on this exciting film property for a younger
audience of players." "Being a computer animated film, The Ant
Bully will be an exciting property to develop as a game," said
Jason Hall, senior vice president of Warner Bros. Interactive
Entertainment. "The Ant Bully is a highly anticipated film and we
look forward to working with Midway to create dynamic games based
on a movie with mass appeal for young gamers." From director John
A. Davis, of the Academy Award-nominated Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius,
produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, John A. Davis and executive
produced by Keith Alcorn, The Ant Bully is an animated family
adventure combining state-of-the-art 3D digital animation with a
witty and heartwarming story for children of all ages. The Ant
Bully, a Playtone Production, in association with DNA Productions,
Inc., features the voice talents of Nicolas Cage, Alan Cumming,
Zach Tyler Eisen, Paul Giamatti, Myles Jeffrey, Regina King, Cheri
Oteri, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Jake Szymanski, and Lily
Tomlin. The Ant Bully is scheduled for a 2006 release from Warner
Bros. Pictures. About Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Warner
Bros. Interactive Entertainment Inc., a Warner Bros. Entertainment
Company, is a premier licensor and a developer of entertainment
content for the interactive space across all current and future
platforms, including consoles, PC-based gaming and wireless
applications. About Midway Headquartered in Chicago, IL with
offices in San Diego, CA, Seattle, WA, Austin, TX , Los Angeles,
CA, Munich, Germany and London, UK, Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY)
is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment
software for major video game systems. More information about
Midway can be obtained at www.midway.com. THE ANT BULLY and all
related characters and elements are trademarks of and (C) Warner
Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s05) This press release contains
forward-looking statements concerning future business conditions
and the outlook for Midway Games Inc. (the "Company") based on
currently available information that involve risks and
uncertainties. The Company's actual results could differ materially
from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a
result of these risks and uncertainties, including, without
limitation, the financial strength of the interactive entertainment
industry, dependence on new product introductions and the ability
to maintain the scheduling of such introductions, the upcoming
console platform transition and other technological changes,
dependence on major platform manufacturers and other risks more
fully described under "Item 1. Business - Risk Factors" in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 2004, and in the more recent filings made by the Company with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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