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'Asteroids': That's a Movie Now
iwatchstuff.com - 7/2/2009
'Asteroids': That's a Movie Now
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Solidifying the notion that film concepts are no longer so much actual ideas as much as notable words, the movie rights to Asteroids , the 1979 Atari game that consisted of absolutely nothing but a triangular ship shooting shapes that looked roughly like asteroids (and occasionally flying ...
'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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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 — ... development community as the unadaptable Benjamin Button of classic video games… Dan Hopper at Best Week Ever notes that people won’t have the attention span for it: The movie will be remembered fondly by children from the 80s, but they’ll get bored and switch over to the Q-Bert movie after one quarter. Mark at I Watch Stuff thinks the studios picked the wrong video game: I can’t help but think this is ...

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