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Team Teabag (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Hasbro (not to be confused with Haribo who make Starmix) are the world’s leading board-game manufacturer. The company has brought us hugely popular board-games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Risk, and Cluedo. Family Game Night does not include any of those titles and this can either be seen as testament to Hasbro having a [...]
LOFT965 (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Our favorite board game (and the cause of many fights) is becoming a film. Sony has acquired the rights to the game in order to make a movie out of it. Expect something like 300. Hasboro must be making a lot out of this! Posted in Keepin' It Reel, Somethin' Diff Tagged: board, boardgame, domination, film, [...]
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Reuters reports that Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment company will partner with Hasbro to develop a film based on the strategy board game Risk. The game was invented in 1957 by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse under the title La Conquete du Monde (The Conquest of the World). Two years later, Parker Brothers published the game in the U.S. as Risk. According to Hasbro, Risk was the first board...
Savage Popcorn (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
It looks like the latest blockbuster fad is going to toys to film. Filmstalker noted , a couple of days ago, that Sony have acquired the film rights to Risk - yes, that's Risk the board game. Also on the way, as noted by CHUD , is a Micronauts movie and JJ Abrams is in talks to produce it. The most interesting part of this is the information that Hasbro - the owners of Micronauts - include "saw...
Public Musings (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
IntriguingAlthough I hate all this branded movie-making, the idea of a movie out of the board game RISK is slighting intriguing. RISK was my favorite game growing up. I was undefeated in RISK until late high school and my sisters decided to gang up and collude against me. They finally defeated me. Next game, I adjusted my strategy and was able to ward off collusion attempts, but the one loss
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Sony has has acquired the big screen rights to board game Risk . The toy giant Hasbo are co-producing. The success of Transformers (also a Hasbro product) has been the driving force bringing Risk and other toy/board games to the big screen. We’ve…
Chic (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
My favorite museum in Rochester: The Strong National Museum of Play "Life must be lived as play." ~Plato Ben fixing a yellow cab at the museum July 2009 W Kids...the mini Wegmans at the museum for children July 2009 It's Friday, and that means it's time to discuss another chapter of The Joy Diet by Martha Beck as part of Jamie Ridler's online book club for bloggers. This week's chapter discussed...
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
From your closet shelf to your local cineplex! Sony has acquired the rights to the board game "Risk" known as "the classic board game of world conquest." Doug Belgard, president of Columbia Pictures, says of the project: “Hasbro has already seen tremendous success with Transformers and G.I. Joe and audiences have shown a great desire for films that [...]
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Someone stop the madness already! This toy and board game licensing thing is already way beyond out of control. Yesterday we reported on Sony's acquisition of the screen rights to the board game Risk, the latest in a long line of questionable movie deals involving branded playthings. The Wall Street Journal followed up with an article on the phenomenon today, addressing the "herd mentality"...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
For anyone who fears he or she may hold Hollywood studio executives in insufficiently low esteem, the Wall Street Journal offers this trend story : Soon to be starring in his own feature-length film with Universal Pictures: Stretch Armstrong, the pliant, muscle-bound doll whose roots go back to the 1970s. Big Wheel, the plastic tricycle, has its own TV show in the works. Even the board game Risk has...
World Hum (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Photo by hellosputnik via Flickr ( Creative Commons ) News broke yesterday that a movie version of the classic board game is in the works, with Will Smith as a producer and possible star. Blogger Colin Boyd is excited about the project , but I’m not so sure. My favorite thing about the game was always the board itself—if you haven’t guessed that I’m a map geek by now, you haven’t...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures is taking on some Risk, acquiring the film rights to the classic Hasbro board game, in which players vie for world domination.
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Sony Pictures Entertainment acquires the motion picture rights to Hasbro board game Risk.
Amy's Robot (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Risk, the favorite board game of global domination nerds who think nothing of playing same game for days at a time, is going to be adapted into a movie. I'm hoping it'll be pretty good, with lots of cool,...
Atomic Popcorn (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
We’ve got Ridley Scott’s Monopoly on the horizon. We’ve got Peter Berg’s Battleship. We have Ouija. Risk? Hey, why not? Sony Pictures has picked up the board game that is hell-bent on world domination. So what does that mean? Well, according to one of Columbia’s representatives, it means a world of possibilities: “The strategic thinking and the [...]
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