McKinley Franklin editor When Universal Pictures’ “Five Nights at Freddy’s” opens in theaters and on streaming service Peacock on Oct.
27, it will mark 2023’s final Hollywood video game adaptation after a stretch when these intellectual-property crossovers enjoyed one helluva hot streak.
To Peter Levin, it was only a matter of time. Levin, one of a trio of principals at Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Griffin Gaming Partners (whose pinball machine-filled office is pictured above), has been active at the intersection of the entertainment and video game industries in various capacities way ahead of it being cool.
Long before the last 24 months saw a flood of movies and TV shows achieve hit status after an extended dry spell — think HBO’s “The Last of Us,” Universal/Illumination’s “The Super Mario Bros.
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