iCelebZ.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Sony Pictures has acquired the film rights of Risk, the classic strategic board game by Hasbro, Inc. The move comes after the success of other Hasbro toys that were adapted into films, "Transformers" and "G.I. Joe." The project will be produced and developed by Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir of Hasbro and James Lassiter of Overbrook Entertainment. Columbia Pictures...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The amazing world of movie ideas takes another one from Hasbro, the game of RISK. Sony has acquired the movie rights to RISK, the game where one must dominate the world. The film will be produced and developed by Hasbro's Brian Goldner, Bennett Schneir and Overbrook Entertainment's James Lassiter. Lassiter has produced several Will Smith movies like I, ROBOT, SEVEN POUNDS, and is also...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
CULVER CITY, Calif., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired from Hasbro, Inc. the motion picture rights to produce RISK, the classic board game brand of world conquest, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. The film will be produced and developed by Hasbro's Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir and Overbrook Entertainment's...
Businessofcinema.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the motion picture rights to produce RISK, the classic board game brand of world conquest from Hasbro. The film will be produced and developed by Hasbro's Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir and Overbrook Entertainment's James Lassiter. Columbia Pictures presidents Doug Belgrad said, "Hasbro has already seen tremendous success ...
Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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 Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir and Overbrook Entertainment's James Lassiter. Belgrad pointed to the success of toys Transformers...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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 . The popular board game — one that ate up several years of my own life in high school and college — will be adapted by Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Bennett...
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Universal has hired Tron Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz to pen the big screen adaptation of the board game Ouija , according to Heat Vision . The studio is looking at the project, to be produced by Platinum Dunes' Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form as well as Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir of Hasbro, as a supernatural action-adventure movie. The board has been...
Backseat Cuddler (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Sony is bringing a movie based on the board game Risk to the big screen. Sony Pictures is taking on some Risk, having acquired the film rights to the classic board game, in which players vie for world domination, from Hasbro. The film will be produced and developed by Hasbro president and CEO Brian Goldner and Bennett [...]
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... action-packed, thrilling story are what will make this a uniquely exciting movie. Brian Goldner , Bennett Schneir and James Lassiter will produce. In the multi-million copy selling game, players compete on a map of the world, amassing armies and attempting world domination. Variations have seen the settings vary from various periods in world history to even the surface of the moon....
Empire News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Roland Emmerich that's too obvious to make here.Final choice of director will be the domain of Bennett Schneir and Hasbro CEO (and very canny man) Brian Goldner, though, who've signed on to produce.
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired from Hasbro, Inc. the motion picture rights to produce , the classic board game brand of world conquest, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. The film will be produced and developed by Hasbro's Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir and Overbrook Entertainment's James Lassiter.Commenting on the announcement...
