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Asteroids Movie Coming To The Big Screen
screenrant.com - 7/2/2009
Asteroids Movie Coming To The Big Screen
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It seems we’re just going to have to get used to the fact that Hollywood is adapting all sorts of beloved properties from our childhoods - everything from toys , to board games and video games . Today we get the news that Universal has bought the rights and are developing a movie ...
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
— 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

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'Asteroids' lands at Universal
hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
— 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

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news-briefs.ew.com - 7/2/2009
Atari's 'Asteroids' heads to theaters | TV, movie and music news | Games, Movie biz, Movies, News
— 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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Asteroids Arcade Game Adaptation Baffles. Today in Film Bloggery 07/02/09
SpoutBlog — ... I really don’t know what to say. Steven Zeitchik at Risky Biz Blog believes the plotlessness of the game is a good thing: “Asteroids” has about as much plot and backstory as a Cinemax special feature. Which means that, without the conventions of modern videogame storytelling to slow it down, it may actually work. Ross Miller at ScreenRant sees this adaptation as one of the least offensive of late: Still, of all the ...

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