Activision Blizzard Studios

Activision Blizzard Studios was a film and television development and production division established by Activision Blizzard in 2015. Its role was to extend game properties such as Call of Duty, Candy Crush and Skylanders into film, television and animation, rather than develop or publish the underlying video games. The division was involved in the animated series Skylanders Academy and pursued additional screen adaptations. Public information is limited regarding its later organizational structure, whether the brand continued independently, and its status after Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard, so its current status cannot be confirmed reliably.

Activision Blizzard Studios was established by Activision Blizzard in 2015 to develop films, television programs and animated content based on the group’s video-game properties. Its creation reflected the broader effort by major game publishers to expand the value of intellectual property through screen adaptations and reach audiences beyond players. Its known output includes the animated series Skylanders Academy, based on the Skylanders game franchise. The division also pursued other adaptation projects, but the production progress, release plans and final status of many of them are not clearly documented. After Activision Blizzard was acquired by Microsoft, publicly available information does not clearly establish whether the division continued under its original name or structure, so its current status remains unknown.

• 2015

• Skylanders Academy

  An animated series based on Activision’s Skylanders video-game franchise. It is one of the best-known screen projects associated with Activision Blizzard Studios and extended the game’s characters and world into television animation.