HOLLYWOOD - Microsoft Corporation has signed a two film deal with Hollywood studiosUniversal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox for rights to its hugely popular
space-based videogame series Halo.
The studios have both agreed to pay the computer giant $5 million and 10 per cent of ticket sales for the rights to sci-fi series about an alien-fighting marine called Master Chief.
Microsoft's decision ends months of speculation after it was first announced
that The Beach author Alex Garland had written a script for the big screen
adaptation.
Under the terms of the deal, Universal will oversee the movie's production
and U.S. distribution with Fox handling international distribution.
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