Report: Microsoft has “Dozens” of Movie and TV Projects Based on its Gaming IPs

Microsoft is reportedly working on more than a “dozen” movie and TV projects based on its gaming intellectual properties, Entertainment Weekly has learned. The publication recently spoke with key members of the new Xbox leadership team who discussed their ambition to turn Xbox into the biggest entertainment company.

Following the blockbuster success of A Minecraft Movie and the Fallout TV show on Amazon Prime Video, Microsoft appears to be ready to capitalize even more on its vast library of gaming brands. “We’ve got over 20 franchises that have made a billion dollars, lifetime,” Xbox’s Chief Content Officer Matt Booty told Entertainment Weekly. “I feel a lot of responsibility to shepherd that. We’re the stewards of that IP. We’re not the owners, because really, the communities own those.”

You may remember that before the Xbox One launched back in 2013, Microsoft formed a new ‘Xbox Entertainment Studios’ division tasked with developing film and television content for Xbox Live. The studio ultimately shut down in 2014, shortly after Phil Spencer became the new CEO of Xbox. Before the closure, Xbox Entertainment Studios had released the Atari: Game Over documentary and the Halo: Nightfall TV show.

Asha Sharma, the new CEO of Xbox, also clarified Microsoft’s renewed Hollywood ambitions. “You won’t see us try to become the biggest linear provider in the world or anything like that, but I think great games are culture, and culture is entertainment. If you think about it, we’ve got the number two show of all time on Amazon [Fallout], Minecraft was top 5 in 2025, Call of Duty is bigger than the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So it all measures. [There’s] more appetite to work with us on titles than ever before,” the exec said.

We already know about the Call of Duty movie produced by Paramount in partnership with Activision, which now has a 2028 release date. Netflix also announced nearly four years ago that it was working with The Coalition on a Gears of War Film and animated series. An official description of the movie seen by Entertainment Weekly says that it will tell “the origin story of Delta Squad, a ragtag crew of soldiers who wage a desperate war for survival against the Locust, a race of subterranean creatures set on destroying humanity.”

EW also learned about the following projects:

• Rare’s pirate game Sea of Thieves will be adapted into a live-action movie that has yet to find a director.
• A Minecraft animated series is in development at Netflix.
• A live-action Wolfenstein show is in development at Amazon.
• A Fallout Shelter “reality competition” is currently being filmed.

While the new Xbox leadership team isn’t ready to talk about the rest of its dozen film and movie adaptations, Booty hinted at a new Halo project to succeed the now-cancelled TV series developed with Paramount, which received a polarized reception. “Halo, first and foremost, is one of our biggest franchises,” Booty said. “It’s iconic to Xbox and we’re certainly going to invest going forward.”

Todd Green, the head of Candy Crush developer King, also told the interviewers that it would be “super fun” to adapt the mobile game into an animated movie. “We do have a rich cast of characters and there’s something very distinctive both tonally in the experience and visually about Candy Crush. What we’re trying to do is explore the boundaries beyond the games,” the exec said.