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Cara Community - Comments (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In reply to Daily Trading & Social Commentary for Nov. 5 : Markets opened higher on Thursday as a strong reading on productivity and an easing in jobless claims helped cheer investors. Will stocks continue to rise from this point? Steve Hochberg, chief market analyst at Elliott Wave International, shared his market outlook. “This has been a bear-market rally,” Hochberg told CNBC. “It’s...
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FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sony Pictures has acquired the film rights to the classic board game “Risk,” Another Hasbro board game which was invented in 1957 by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse as “La Conquete du Monde” (Conquest of the World). Two years later, in 1959, Parker Brothers (now a division of Hasbro) published the game we all came to [...]
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Movies - Spoilers (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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 came to know as Risk. Since then, nearly a dozen different variations of Risk have mapped out epic...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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...
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GameSetWatch (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The appearance of a New Kids On The Block sample NES box (well, more like packaging art taped to a box) on eBay last month sent game collectors shrieking in excitement, just like my sister 18 years ago when she got tickets to see the boy band during their Magic Summer Tour. Yes, their reactions were near identical . The box belonged to former EGM editor Andrew "Cyber-Boy" Baran, who sadly...
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Destructoid (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and even Danny Wood wouldn't buy this piece of crap. Sure, it's a piece of gaming history, but it's also just some glossy paper taped around a box. What it's supposed to be is a prototype box for a New Kids on the Block NES game. No game. Just a box. The seller says that it was a prototype that was originally in the possession of a "major...
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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" (Conquest of the World). Two years later, in 1959, Parker Brothers published the game we all came to know as Risk. Since then, nearly a dozen...
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ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sony Pictures has acquired the motion picture rights to classic board game "Risk," which was invented in 1957 by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse as "La Conquête du Monde" (Conquest of the World). Two years later, in 1959, Parker Brothers (now a division of Hasbro) published the game we all came to know as "Risk." "Risk" was unique because it introduced...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Filed under: Earnings reports , General Electric (GE) , Time Warner (TWX) , Walt Disney (DIS) , Viacom (VIA) , Sony Corp ADR (SNE) , News Corp'B' (NWS) , Hasbro Inc (HAS) , Media World Viacom (NYSE: VIA ), a content player in competition with News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS ), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX ), Sony (NYSE: SNE ), and General Electric 's (NYSE: GE ) NBC Universal, issued Q3 numbers today. If we had...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A study published in Economics Letters questions the relationship between obesity and crime Fat people are more likely to become criminals, and their very fatness may help shape their criminality. That's the conclusion reached by Professor Gregory N Price in a study called Obesity and Crime: Is There a Relationship? published in the journal Economics Letters. Price, an economist at Morehouse College...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zacks Equity Research highlights Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) as the Bull of the Day and RC2 Corporation (Nasdaq: RCRC) the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Citigroup (NYSE: C), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX). Full analysis of all these stocks is available at http://at.zacks.com/?id=2676. Here is...
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ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
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 produced by Hasbro's...
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CinemaSpy (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Ouija is just a game, right? No, it’s also going to be a movie. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog , Universal has tapped Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz for Ouija, which would represent the latest tabletop game eyed for the big screen treatment. Hancock ’s Peter Berg is currently working a film version of Battleship, while Ridley Scott has long been attached...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Capital One (NYSE: COF), RC2 Corporation (Nasdaq: RCRC), Mattel Inc. (Nasdaq: MAT), Hasbro Inc. (NYSE: HAS) and JAKKS Pacific Inc. (Nasdaq:...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Filed under: Earnings reports , Microsoft (MSFT) , Yahoo! (YHOO) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , eBay (EBAY) , Pfizer (PFE) , Coca-Cola (KO) , AT and T (T) , Altria Group (MO) , BB and T (BBT) , Boeing Co (BA) , duPont(E.I.)deNemours (DD) , Hasbro Inc (HAS) , AMR Corp (AMR) , UAL Corp (UAUA) , Wells Fargo (WFC) Here are some highlights from last week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Altria Group Inc....
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