iwatchstuff.com - 16 days ago
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Realizing there were still board games not yet arbitrarily being made into feature films, Sony announced yesterday they had purchased the movie rights to Risk. Because moving representative armies around a board and getting angry with your backstabbing friends for several hours is a good ...
deadline.com - 17 days ago
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deadline.com —
Sony Pictures announced today it's acquired the motion
picture rights to the board game of world conquest,
"Risk", from Hasbro. Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures, say the film will be produced and developed by Hasbro’s ...
Sony Pictures Buys Board Game 'Risk'
variety.com - 17 days ago
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variety.com —
Studio acquires bigscreen rights to Hasbro franchise Sony
Pictures Entertainment has its sights set on world domination,
acquiring bigscreen rights to the board game Risk from Hasbro. SPE will produce the adaptation with Will Smith and James ...
Sony takes 'Risk' with board game
slashfilm.com - 16 days ago
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slashfilm.com —
Not all board game to movie adaptations are
a completely bad idea. For instance, Battleship has the
potential to be a very cool water-based war film, especially with Peter Berg at the helm. But when does a brand name hurt the adapted property? ...
Sony Pictures To Make Movie Based on the Board Game Risk
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filmschoolrejects.com 17 days ago —
Ridley Scott has been talking about directing Monopoly for some time now. Peter Berg is still waiting to board a Battleship movie. Kevin Lima is going to take us to Candyland . And now, Sony Pictures is planning a big screen adaptation of RISK .
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cinematical.com 16 days ago — Battleship . Monopoly, Candy Land, and Ouija . A Clue re-do . If it's a board game, chances are it's going to get put into development sometime in the near future. If Hollywood wasn't such a wacky world of insane ideas, I'd be surprised that we ...
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news-briefs.ew.com 15 days ago — Proving once again that Hollywood’s latest mining opportunity is the well of classic toys and board games moviegoers loved as kids, Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to make a feature film from board game Risk. Hasbro Entertainment now holds ...
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firstshowing.net 17 days ago —
What the? How the hell are they going to do this? Sony Pictures has announced today that they've acquired the rights to the classic board game Risk , which was first invented in 1957 by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse as "La Conquête du Monde" ...
Sony Acquires Rights to Movie Based on the Game of Risk
movies.spoilertv.com 17 days ago —
Sony Pictures has announced today that they've acquired the rights to the classic board game Risk, which was first invented in 1957 by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse as "La Conquête du Monde" (Conquest of the World). Two years later, in 1959, Parker Brothers published the game we all ...
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