Cover of movie tie-in novel

In 1981, Bantam Books published a movie tie-in novelization written by Mike McQuay that adopts a lean, humorous style reminiscent of the film.

On July 21, as something of a tie-in with the movie 21, Merrill Heatter returned to game-show producing with Catch 21 ( a revival of the 1970s game Gambit ) hosted by actor-singer-dancer Alfonso Ribeiro with actress Mikki Padilla as the dealer.

In many such cases, publishers then follow suit and release a so-called " film tie-in " edition showing a still from the movie on the front cover and the film credits on the back cover of the book — yet another marketing strategy aimed at those cinemagoers who may want to do both: first read the book and then watch the film ( or vice versa ).

He is also known for his role in Withnail and I, and for portraying the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie and subsequent tie-in media.

SPI later ( in 1981 ) published a board game titled Dragonslayer, a tie-in with the movie.

* A Study in Terror — 1966 ( Movie tie-in or novelization of a movie of the same name about Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper, with Ellery Queen added as a character in the framing story.

Burger King was a pioneer in the advertising practice known as " product tie-in ", with a successful partnership with George Lucas ' Lucasfilm, Ltd., to promote the 1977 film Star Wars in which BK sold a set of glasses featuring the main characters from the movie.

A movie tie-in game for the sequel to the 2009 movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was released along with the movie on June 24, 2009.

A live action motion picture loosely based upon the series and starring Charlize Theron was released in theaters on December 2, 2005, preceded in November of that year by a tie-in video game based mostly on the movie but containing some elements of the original TV series.

Moffat also published books under his own name ; including the movie tie-in Queen Kong, based on the low-budget 1976 movie.

The basis for the movie, Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On ( originally published in 1987 ) was released as a movie tie-in edition, re-titled Ride With the Devil, by Pocket Books on November 1, 1999.

In 2012 Hasbro and PPW Toys have a plan to release Mr Potato Head in his Batman forum for the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie The Dark Knight Rises which comes out on July 20th, 2012, They are working together and are doing a tie-in to the upcoming movie, They are going to be making the toy and it's in development, The toy itself will be called The Dark Spud and will have Mr Potato Head dressed up as the Caped Crusader for the movie, He will include a cape, A mask, A utility belt, And of course a batarang to hold in his left hand, But also he was unveiled at the New York 2012 Toy Fair and was on display!

Christopher Priest wrote the tie-in novel to accompany the movie eXistenZ, the theme of which has much in common with some of Priest's own novels.

It was first published in 1997, and re-published in 2001, 2006, and in 2008 as a 10th anniversary movie tie-in edition.

The Scarecrow appears in nine video games: Game Boy's Batman: The Animated Series, Super Nintendo and Mega Drive / Genesis's The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, Batman Begins ( a tie-in to the 2005 movie, voiced by Cillian Murphy ), Lego Batman: The Videogame, Batman: Arkham Asylum, " Batman: Arkham City " Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame, DC Universe Online and plays a brief boss in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.

Reasons for this transition was productive uses for such monitors, i. e. besides widescreen computer game play and movie viewing, are the word processor display of two standard letter pages side by side, as well as CAD displays of large-size drawings and CAD application menus at the same time.

In 1999, Duke Nukem 3D was banned in Brazil, along with Quake, Doom and several other violent first-person shooters after a violent rampage in and around a movie theater was allegedly inspired by the first level in the game.

The audience may have a passive role, as in the case of persons watching a play or opera, a television show or a movie, or active, as in the case of a video game.

The track was featured in The Comic Strip's movie The Supergrass and on its soundtrack, as well as in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the fictional radio station " Wave 103 ".

The last story is probably the most famous, having inspired at least eight movie adaptations ( two of which are now considered to be lost ), one animated movie, two documentaries and a video game.

The game is dramatized in the movie The Long Gray Line.

Another example of a POV shot is in the movie Doom, which contains a fairly long POV shot which resembles a head-up display in a first-person shooter video game, with the viewer watching through a character who is venturing through hallways shooting and killing aliens.

Its theme is based on an outtake from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the astronaut ( seen playing chess in the final version ) is playing a two-player pentomino game against a computer.

The front of the board game box features scenes from the movie as well as a caption describing it as the " game of the future ".

The game was inspired by several works of contemporary Science Fiction, most notably the movie Total Recall among others.

In Cryptic Studios online role-playing game, Star Trek: Online, Janeway is briefly mentioned in the background, exploring the Hobus system after the supernova that was the catalyst for the events of the 2009 Star Trek movie.

The ' TAS ' series would be the original cast's last episodic portrayal of the characters until the " cartoon like " graphics of the Star Trek: 25th Anniversary computer game in 1992, as well as its sequel Star Trek: Judgment Rites in 1993, both of which would appear after the cast's last movie together in 1991's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

The Sega Game Gear was prominently featured in the 1993 movie " Surf Ninjas " ( which subsequently received its own Game Gear video game as well ).

Clips from this game can be seen in the movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective as the character Ray Finkle is in reality Dolphins kicker Uwe von Schamann.

Some well-known examples of this include the back scabbard depicted in the movie Braveheart and the back scabbard seen in the video game series The Legend of Zelda.

Sports anchor Andy Hardy handled the play-by-play, and for one game in 1978, his broadcast partner was his friend, Florida State alumni and movie actor Burt Reynolds.

* The 2001 Mamoru Oshii movie " Avalon " ( アヴァロン ) is set in a bleak future, where the population is hooked on an immersive illegal virtual reality video game called Avalon.

A sequel to the Heavy Metal 2000 animated movie, the game stars Julie in her quest to save her home planet of Eden from GITH, an ancient entity seeking to conquer the universe.

The heroine, Julie, was inspired by Julie Strain, who provided the voice for the heroine in the movie, and the game is linked to Heavy Metal magazine.

That idea eventually morphed into this parlor game, wherein movie buffs challenge each other to find the shortest path between an arbitrary actor and veteran Hollywood character actor Kevin Bacon.

* B. O. W ( Bio-Organic Weapons ), a type of weapon in the Resident Evil video game and movie series

Video game arcades sprang up in shopping malls, and small " corner arcades " appeared in restaurants, grocery stores, bars and movie theaters all over the United States, Japan and other countries during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Treated largely as a comedy, the movie featured the music of Jimmy Buffett and portrayed the creators of the game as three beer-loving Canadians.

We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook and her son who turned out to be Nazis.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

They condemned the movie script writers for implying that sex was enjoyable and exhilarating.

But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.

The Atlanta Negro student movement renewed its demands for movie theater integration Friday and threatened picketing and `` stand-ins '' if negotiations failed.

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

Algeria had also won an Oscar for the movie Z, a political thriller directed by Costa Gavras.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

The song plays during the opening credits for the highly acclaimed John Ford movie " My Darling Clementine.

When brought to the screen in 1964, the movie version would win eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Rex Harrison.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.

The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

" J. Patton of The Bent Cover praised Jeter for " try to emulate Philip K. Dick ", adding, " This book also has all the grittiness and dark edges that the movie showed off so well, along with a very fast pace that will keep you reading into the wee hours of the night.

One of the most unusual buses ever built was a prop for Paramount Productions in 1935 for a movie set.

During the 1960s, De Palma began making a living producing documentary films, notably The Responsive Eye, a 1966 movie about The Responsive Eye op-art exhibit curated by William Seitz for Museum of Modern Art in 1965.

Preproduction for the film had coincided with the casting process for George Lucas's Star Wars, and many of the actors cast in De Palma's film had been earmarked as contenders for Lucas's movie, and vice-versa.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

Unlike the immediate acceptance shown in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for the audience to warm up to him.