How video games came out of the basement – and ate up Hollywood

At the end of Todd Field’s multi-Oscar-nominated film Tár, Cate Blanchett’s “cancelled” conductor is consigned to a fate worse than unemployment: leading the orchestra at a fancy-dress concert for fans of Monster Hunter, the popular fantasy video game. Blanchett herself, on the other hand, had arrived on the set of Tár fresh from the Hungary set of Borderlands, a forthcoming video-game-inspired film.
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