Video game Tetris to become a China-US co-produced movie

Chinese and U.S. producers say they plan to make an 80 million live-action sci-fi thriller based on the popular 1980s building block computer game Tetris. The movie will begin shooting next year. It is the first project from the newly formed Threshold Global Studios, a joint venture between Chinese entertainment investor Bruno Wu's Seven Star Works and producer Larry Kasanoff's California-based Threshold Entertainment Group. The pair said in a statement Tuesday that the joint venture "will make cross-cultural movies for the global market." Kasanoff added that the 32-year-old video game Tetris "is a perfect first project for this strategy."