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# _Call of Duty_ Movie and _Skylanders_ TV Series Are in the Works

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## Jonathon Dornbush / Entertainment Weekly


Nov 6, 2015 8:58 PM UTC

by 

[Jonathon Dornbush / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/)


## Jonathon Dornbush / Entertainment Weekly


Nov 6, 2015 8:58 PM UTC

On the launch day of the latest _Call of Duty_, Activision Blizzard announced that the franchise is finally heading to the big screen. The company announced the formation of Activision Blizzard Studios, a new internal division of Activision that will focus on film and TV production, and a _Call of Duty_ movie is tentatively expected to arrive in 2018 or 2019, the first in what could be a series of films.

Activision just released _Call of Duty: Black Ops III_, which sets the series in the near future, but no plotline or information about whether the movies will pull from the series’ worlds and characters has been announced. The game franchise has a history of pulling in film and TV actors for voice and motion capture work, most notably with Kevin Spacey in last year’s _Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare_. Activision promises a “robust cinematic universe” is planned for _Call of Duty_’s cinematic version (and as the series’ single player narratives play like interactive summer blockbusters, there’s plenty of history to cull from when producing the films).

The studio is also working on an animated TV series based on _Skylanders_, the toys-to-life game that once began as a successor to the _Spyro_ game series. _Skylanders Academy_ will include Justin Long, Ashley Tisdale, Jonathan Banks, and Norm McDonald among its cast. The pilot is currently set to air in the second quarter of 2016.

Nick van Dyk, who previously served as senior vice president of corporate strategy at Disney, will serve as the studio’s co-president with another unannounced executive.

Activision Blizzard already has one of its biggest franchises set to hit movie theaters next year with the arrival of _Warcraft_ from Legendary, but these subsequent projects will be produced and handled internally.

This announcement comes only days after Activision announced the acquisition of King, the company behind _Candy Crush_. And Activision isn’t the only game company bringing film production in-house, as Ubisoft established Ubisoft Pictures several years ago to develop films based on [_Assassin’s Creed_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/27/assassins-creed-first-look-michael-fassbender), its [Rabbids characters,](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/14/rabbids-movie-robot-chicken-writers) and more.


_This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/06/activision-studio-call-duty-movie-skylanders-tv-show) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/)

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