You might've noticed a dip in the number of posts on MTV Movies Blog this week. That's because your friendly neighborhood editor (me) has been staying up too late for almost two straight weeks. "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" arrived in stores on 11/10/09 and the obsession has set in once more. I've had control over my "Call of Duty" demons for about a year now, but this new game in the series opened the floodgates anew. There's simply not enough time in the day for work and play, plus other necessary daily activities. My poor dog hasn't been walked in a fortnight (not really).
I say all of that to illustrate just how exciting the news of a "Call of Duty" movie is to someone like me. The series is known -- its single-player campaign, at least -- for epic-scale set pieces. In the previous game, an entire level was built around a deposed Middle Eastern leader's final minutes as he is driven through war-torn streets to his execution, seen entirely from a first-person perspective. So what's all this about a "Call of Duty" movie? The New York Post's PopWrap has the story. Read more...
Chris Columbus may have left the "Harry Potter" series far behind, but he's clearly still hungry for a sprawling fantasy franchise. He's set to start filming "Percy Jackson", a big screen adaptation of Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series, and while he's lined up Logan Lerman to play the title role, he needs some Olympians.