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Take-Two CEO doesn’t expect to make big bets in game-based films

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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In Take-Two Interactive‘s analyst call, CEO Strauss Zelnick got a query about expanding from games into the film business.

The analyst noted the success of films like The Super Mario Bros. Movie surpassing $1 billion and the critical acclaim for The Last of Us on HBO. And then the analyst asked if Take-Two’s talented game developers wanted to expand into that category.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.