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Merrick here...
At the impending E3 (Electronics Entertainment Expo), video game publisher Namco Bandai will throw a shindig celebrating the 30th birthday of PAC-MAN's first game, a retrospective of PAC-MANia, and a look at the "next evolution" of the title. Interestingly, seems Avi Arad will also be on-hand to "offer insight into the worldwide premiere of his newest Pac-Man project."

Namco Bandai's event will be where former Marvel CEO Avi Arad will "offer insight into the worldwide premiere of his newest Pac-Man project." Though it's unclear what exactly the project is, Arad has been a prolific producer of movies and televisions shows over the past two decades.

...says GameSpot HERE. Please keep in mind: this is all reasonable extrapolation/educated guesswork until we've heard a more formal announcment. Avi could actually be talkling about any number of things, and this isn't the first time the notion of a PAC-MAN movie has reared its spherical yellow head (I remember murmerings about two years ago, and four or five years before that, and...). This said, PAC-MAN wouldn't be Avi's first game-to-movie adaptation - he's also involved with UNCHARTED: DRAKE'S FORTUNE, MASS EFFECT, LOST PLANET, and EVERQUEST. More importantly, this means my dreams of PONG: THE MOVIE In IMAX And RealD 3D are closer and closer to coming true!
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