popwatch.ew.com - 7/2/2009
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Apparently, there was some kind of insane Hollywood bidding war to get the rights to make a movie based on the classic Asteroids videogame. You remember, the one barely rendered in straight lines that had the player trying to survive...
hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009
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hollywoodreporter.com —
Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick
up the film rights to the classic Atari video
game "Asteroids."
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009
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hollywoodreporter.com —
Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to
pick up the film rights to the classic Atari
video game "Asteroids." Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura. In "Asteroids," ...
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
news-briefs.ew.com - 7/2/2009
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news-briefs.ew.com —
According to The Hollywood Reporter , Universal won
a bidding war for the big-screen rights to the
classic 1979 Atari game Asteroids. Writer Matthew Lopez, who recently worked on Disney's Bedtime Stories and Race to Witch Mountain , has the task of ...
Atari's 'Asteroids' heads to theaters | TV, movie and ...
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Just when you don’t think things can get much worse on the Hollywood remake front, we receive this horrible news:
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