{"id":13846,"date":"2011-09-05T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"activision-funds-live-action-call-of-duty-fan-made-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13846-activision-funds-live-action-call-of-duty-fan-made-film","title":{"rendered":"Activision funds live-action Call of Duty fan-made film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11459-Find-Makarov-%28Fan-Film%29\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Find Makarov\">Find Makarov<\/a>, the live-action fan-made film that turned up on the internet a few months back, prompting an inevitable frenzy of speculation that a Modern Warfare 3 reveal was imminent? The one that Activision didn&rsquo;t seem to want anything much to do with at the time?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently they changed their collective mind about it all, and threw cash at the filmmakers to produce a sequel, presumably as a part of the marketing for Modern Warfare 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we saw saw it, we had two reactions,&#8221; said Activision&#8217;s CEO Eric Hirshberg. &#8220;The first one was &#8216;That&#8217;s freakin&#8217; awesome.&#8217; And the second one was &#8216;Who the hell made this?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&rsquo;s a nice change from cease-and-desist orders, isn&rsquo;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Activision announced the news during the Call of Duty XP event over the weekend, and the video, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish, is now hosted on the official Call of Duty YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modern_Warfare_3_screenshot_1_617885811.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/afs8lcfBY7Q?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/afs8lcfBY7Q?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17328-Activision-funds-live-action-Call-of-Duty-fan-made-film-Find-Makarov\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Activision funds live-action Call of Duty fan-made film\"><strong>Activision funds live-action Call of Duty fan-made film<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awww, isn\u2019t that nice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}