ABOUT BUREAU OF FILM & GAMES
At the Bureau of Film & Games (BFG), we create and develop intellectual properties that become franchises across multiple media.
The company partners, Flint Dille and John Zuur Platten, have successfully created Franchise Titles in a multitude of media, including games, television and films.
Bureau of Film & Games recent and current clients include DC Comics, Sierra, THQ, Activision, Electronic Arts, Monolith, Marvel, Warner Bros, Dimension, Take 2, Midway, Microsoft, Disney and Namco. We have strategic alliances with a number of major players in the entertainment industry.
Here are just some of the games BFG has in production or current release: Frank Miller’s Sin City, Transformers, Fantastic Four, BlackSite: Area 51, Disney’s Spectrobes and The Wheelman. Other recent titles include the critically acclaimed Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, as well as Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, Red Ninja, Tribes Vengeance, Constantine, Avatar, Teen Titans and Scooby-Doo: Unmasked.
BFG has a long history in games. Hit titles that we have created or worked on include: Dead To Rights, Fear Effect, Crimson Skies 2, Soviet Strike, Nuclear Strike, Battlezone, Tomorrow Never Dies and Ultima 9.
All of Bureau of Film & Games original projects are developed as franchises than can move seamlessly into other media, including original soundtracks, graphic novel serializations and feature film/TV possibilities.
Backwater (an original survival-horror property created by BFG) was optioned by Dimension as a feature film with Dille and Platten attached as Co-Executive Producers and Writers. The picture was released as Venom in 2005 and is currently available on DVD. In addition to Backwater, both Dead to Rights and Fear Effect have been optioned as films.
BFG is also writing and developing a feature film / game property, Cannae (about the life of Hannibal Barca), with actor / producer Vin Diesel and his Tigon Studios. Additionally, BFG is creating a new action franchise with Mr. Diesel and Bryan Singer (Director of The Usual Suspects, X-Men and Superman Returns).
BFG has a number of as yet unannounced projects in development at major studios and networks. Clients include Disney, Warner Animation, Spike TV and Nickelodeon.