LOS ANGELES — Activision Blizzard, a gaming company that this week disclosed plans to acquire King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 billion, said it already had a next step in mind: the creation of an internal film and television studio.

On Friday, Activision Blizzard said a newly formed studios unit would develop and produce movies and TV shows based on about 1,000 titles in its company library. Those include the Call of Duty and Skylanders games, as well as Candy Crush, which is among the titles acquired with King.

The new unit will be led by Nick van Dyk, who was previously a senior vice president of corporate strategy for the Walt Disney Company, Activision Blizzard said. The first production planned from the studio will be an animated “Skylanders Academy” television series. A first film is likely to be based on Call of Duty.

“Everything we do is in the service of our players,” Robert Kotick, Activision Blizzard’s chief executive, said in a telephone interview. Mr. Kotick said the new studio would let Activision Blizzard trade on the storytelling potential of its games, while tapping a field of users that he put at about 500 million, including the King Digital players.