Activision Blizzard announced that they are launching a studio to develop film and TV shows based on our favorite video games.  

The Times News  reported that Activision Blizzard Studio is developing new original titles. The studio is the home of the best-selling games "Call of Duty" series, "Diablo", "Skylanders", and other interactive adventures.

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The video game giant hopes to turn "Call of Duty" game series into a cinematic universe and is expecting their first movie to be released in 2018 or 2019. 

The studio is also working on an animated TV series based on Skylanders game with "Futurama" writer Eric Rogers appointed as the show runner. The show is currently in production and will be featuring the voice of Ashley Tisdale as Stealth Elf, Norm MacDonald as Glumshanks, Jonathan Banks as Eruptor, and Justin Long as Spyro. Harland Williams and Richard Steven Horvitz are also part of the production.

CEO Bobby Kotick and Disney alum Nick van Dyk will be managing the Activision Blizzard studio. According to Kotick, the most important asset in their company is the audience, and in order to ensure that their audiences are always appropriately entertained, they have to make sure that anything that relates to any of the company's franchises is produced with the same commitment to excellence that they have.

Korick explained that the only way they can ensure that would happen would be to do it themselves. Nick added that their fans spent about 13 billion hours last year with their content, which is a flabbergasting amount. It is comparable to every movie seen in every theater around the world combined.

Activision Blizzard studio recently announced that they acquired "Candy Crush" creator King Digital Entertainment. The nearly $6-billion deal is still to be finalized, but expected spring of next year; the studio will officially own the addictive game, and probably these colorful candies could find their way to our television.

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