Also revealed at BlizzCon...
At its annual BlizzCon, Activision Blizzard announced that it will launch an in-house TV and film studio to bring many of its popular franchises to screens of many sizes.
Reuters reports the first project will be an animated TV series based on Skylanders, but Activision said Call of Duty wouldn't be far behind. The Associated Press reports that Justin Long, Ashley Tisdale, and Jonathan Banks are already on board for Skylanders Academy and that the project is aiming for 2016.
Call of Duty is a "near-term" project, however, according to Reuters. Activision said this would be a movie franchise first with the possibility of a TV adaptation down the line. The AP put a date on this project as well, writing that it'd be "ready for deployment" in 2018 or 2019. "Our releases will be consistent with the high adrenaline, bad-(expletive) action that fans expect from this franchise, but we're going to deliver this intellectual property to the broadest movie-going audience," Activision Blizzard Studios co-president Nick van Dyk said, according to the report. "This will be tent-pole action-adventure of the widest appeal."
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