Sony Pictures Entertainment announced that the studio has brought together an extraordinary number of iconic video game companies, whose classic characters – including PAC-MAN, Donkey Kong, Centipede®, Galaga, Frogger, Q*bert, and Space Invaders – will be featured in the highly-anticipated action comedy Pixels, starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, and Brian Cox, and directed by Chris Columbus.  The film will be released on May 15, 2015.

In Pixels, when intergalactic aliens misinterpret video-feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against them, they attack the Earth, using the games as models for their various assaults.  President Will Cooper (James) has to call on his childhood best friend, ’80s video game champion Sam Brenner (Sandler), now a home theater installer, to lead a team of old-school arcaders (Dinklage and Gad) to defeat the aliens and save the planet.  Monaghan plays the team's unique weapons specialist.  The action-comedy is directed by Chris Columbus from a story by Tim Herlihy and a screenplay by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, based on the original short film of the same name by Patrick Jean.

Companies with classic arcade games that are teaming with Sony Pictures on the film include:

·         Atari® Interactive: (Asteroids®, Breakout®, Centipede® and Missile Command®)

·         Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. (Frogger)

·         BANDAI NAMCO Games Inc. (PAC-MAN, Galaga, and Dig Dug)

·         Nintendo (Donkey Kong)

·         Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (Q*bert)

·         Taito Corporation (Space Invaders)

·         Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (Joust, Defender, Robotron and Wizard of Wor)

At Comic-Con San Diego, from July 24-27, arcaders 13 years of age and older with Comic-Con badges will have the chance to engage with many of these classic original arcade games and try them out again as the studio features a Pixels Electric Dreams Factory arcade at the Hard Rock Hotel, 209 5th Ave., San Diego.