As newspaper Variety informs, film studios Universal and 20th Century Fox have refused to finance shootings of film Halo based on same game Microsoft in this connection trade marks of these companies have been removed from a cover of film. But if with trade marks all is clear - they are not present - that with film Halo all much more difficultly more. If one year ago at conference X05 when film also has been announced, the light future, now ahead flickered, having lost two main investors, one of the most scale adaptations Videogames has got in complex position. The reason of refusal of studios consists in overestimate of initially stipulated budget of film in $135 million, on some hearings up to $200 million (the budget of "Titanic"), but in any case neither Universal was approximately those, nor 20th Century Fox it was not possible to agree neither with Peter Jackson, nor with Fraend Uolsher (both are producers of film). Their representative, Ken Kamins, has declared: " the Unique figure which was more than the primary budget - $145 million, and it appeared only in preliminary dialogue, and the main thing, in case of shootings in New Zealand this sum would decrease up to $128 million "." Actually Universal on behalf of both studios has demanded strongly to cut down the budget. They waited for it until the last minute, but Jackson and Fraend, having consulted to management Microsoft and Bungie (the publisher and the developer of game Halo) have politely refused ", - has continued Kamins. It also has added, that already there are negotiations with other studios, and works on creation of film Related Products :
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