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variety.com - 16 days ago

Sony takes 'Risk' with board game

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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 Lassiter's Overbrook shingle. Property, which pits ...

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deadline.com - 17 days ago

Sony Pictures Buys Board Game 'Risk'

— 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'

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slashfilm.com - 16 days ago

Sony Pictures To Make Movie Based on the Board Game Risk

— 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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variety.com - 17 days ago

Sony takes a 'Risk'

— variety.com — Film News: Studio acquires rights to Hasbro board game -- Sony Pictures Entertainment has its sights set on world domination. Sony takes a 'Risk'

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Sony adapting Risk
Total Film News — Just when you thought the avalanche of studios buying board games to make movies from had slowed down, Sony decides to snap up Risk. Hasbro sold off the rights to the company, which will produce the film with Will Smith's company (doubt he'll star in it, but stranger things have happened). If you've never played the game, it locks players in a struggle to control all the world's territories through strategic thinking and military deployment. Well, small, plastic military deployment, at least. And, pushing aside our natural skepticism for a second, we can see how you could at least turn this into a film scenario ...

John C. Reilly & Mary-Louise Parker Join Morgan Freeman & Bruce Willis In 'Red' Comic Book Adaptation, 'Machete' Poster & More...
:: The Playlist :: — [image] — We've been a li ttle ho-hum on the Bruce Willis/Morgan Freeman spy thriller " Red ," an adaptation of Warren Ellis ' comic book directed by Robert Schwentke (" The Time Traveller's Wife "), but the recent news that Helen Mirren was stepping on-board was intriguing. Now John C. Reilly and Mary-Louise Parker , fine actors both, have joined the cast , the former playing a paranoid CIA agent, the latter playing the love interest, a federal pension worker, and we're more than a little intrigued, it's an unusually high-calibre cast for an action-thriller. It's particularly good to see Reilly taking on something more dramatic, ...

Risk the Board Game Coming to the Big Screen
Movies RSS Feed: UGO — [image] I once played a game of Risk that lasted so long, by the end I had given up on conquering territories and stuck to dancing around the room, firing imaginary canons, and foaming at the mouth. That's what you get for playing an eight hour match. But hey, they put a warning in the title. Sony executives must have been in a similar state of disarray recently, as they've picked up the Hasbro board game ...