seriouslyomg.com - 7/2/2009
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Universal actually beat out 3 other studios for the rights to make a movie based on the Atari game Asteroids according to The Hollywood Reporter . At this point they don’t know have a plot, but they do have a writer to figure it out. Hopefully that writer will be able to ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009
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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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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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