Twentieth Century Fox, the movie studio owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, has signed a two-year deal to develop video games for mobile phones to coincide with its film releases, starting with the forthcoming computer animated film, Robots.

The deal with Sorrent, a US games company that specialises in mobile phone content, highlights the expanding market for games and other entertainment that can be downloaded on to increasingly sophisticated mobile phones. It is also one of a growing number of partnerships between content creators and video games companies.