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Console, Handheld and PC Games to Ship with Upcoming
Computer Animated Film from Warner Bros. Pictures
Midway Games Inc. and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today
announced a multi-territory publishing agreement that grants Midway
the rights to publish interactive games for console, handheld and PC
platforms based on the upcoming computer animated motion picture The
Ant Bully.
"We are very pleased to be partnering with Warner Bros.
Interactive Entertainment to bring The Ant Bully into the interactive
space," said Midway president and chief executive officer David F.
Zucker. "Midway is looking forward to publishing great games based on
this exciting film property for a younger audience of players."
"Being a computer animated film, The Ant Bully will be an exciting
property to develop as a game," said Jason Hall, senior vice president
of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. "The Ant Bully is a highly
anticipated film and we look forward to working with Midway to create
dynamic games based on a movie with mass appeal for young gamers."
From director John A. Davis, of the Academy Award-nominated Jimmy
Neutron: Boy Genius, produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, John A.
Davis and executive produced by Keith Alcorn, The Ant Bully is an
animated family adventure combining state-of-the-art 3D digital
animation with a witty and heartwarming story for children of all
ages. The Ant Bully, a Playtone Production, in association with DNA
Productions, Inc., features the voice talents of Nicolas Cage, Alan
Cumming, Zach Tyler Eisen, Paul Giamatti, Myles Jeffrey, Regina King,
Cheri Oteri, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Jake Szymanski, and Lily
Tomlin. The Ant Bully is scheduled for a 2006 release from Warner
Bros. Pictures.
About Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Inc., a Warner Bros.
Entertainment Company, is a premier licensor and a developer of
entertainment content for the interactive space across all current and
future platforms, including consoles, PC-based gaming and wireless
applications.
About Midway
Headquartered in Chicago, IL with offices in San Diego, CA,
Seattle, WA, Austin, TX , Los Angeles, CA, Munich, Germany and London,
UK, Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY) is a leading developer and publisher
of interactive entertainment software for major video game systems.
More information about Midway can be obtained at www.midway.com.
THE ANT BULLY and all related characters and elements are
trademarks of and (C) Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s05)
This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning
future business conditions and the outlook for Midway Games Inc. (the
"Company") based on currently available information that involve risks
and uncertainties. The Company's actual results could differ
materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as
a result of these risks and uncertainties, including, without
limitation, the financial strength of the interactive entertainment
industry, dependence on new product introductions and the ability to
maintain the scheduling of such introductions, the upcoming console
platform transition and other technological changes, dependence on
major platform manufacturers and other risks more fully described
under "Item 1. Business - Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, and in the more
recent filings made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.