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Jim Hamilton’s World of Securities (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
NYSE Forms Corporate Governance Commission as Legislation Looms Against the backdrop of pending federal legislation on corporate governance, the NYSE has formed a Commission on Corporate Governance to address U.S. corporate governance reform and the overall proxy voting process for public companies. Chaired by Larry Sonsini of Wilson, Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the Commission will take a comprehensive...
Mass. Market (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The classic Parker Brothers game of Clue has taken on plenty of twists and turns worthy of a suspense novel during the six decades since it was first published. But the latest variant could be the oddest one yet. Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet and the rest of the gang are all secret agents in the new [...]
Vacuum Energy (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
According to io9.com, Ridley Scott is making a movie based on the board game Monopoly. This is going to get ugly. Here's the movie in a nutshell : So here's the set up. The story stars a loser type fella in Manhattan who sucks at selling real estate, but he's great at Monopoly. Irony! When he tries to beat the world Monopoly playing record, 70 days straight, his friends tell him he's an idiot and tease...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
It was only a year ago the world learned that Ridley Scott, the director of "Alien," would be directing a big screen adaptation of the classic Parker Brothers board game "Monopoly." Then, earlier this year, MTV exclusively learned from producer and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner that the focus of the plot would be the world's [...]
/Film (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I thought I knew how a Monopoly movie could work, even what a Ridley Scott Monopoly movie would look like, but I didn't expect anything like this. I'll let Frank Beddor, the man behind the movie's concept, lay it all out for you: [H]e’s in this very vibrant place, Monopoly City, and he’s just come out of a Chance Shop. As it goes on, he takes on the evil Parker Brothers in the game of Monolopy....
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I thought I knew how a Monopoly movie could work, even what a Ridley Scott Monopoly movie would look like, but I didn't expect anything like this. I'll let Frank Beddor, the man behind the movie's concept, lay it all out for you: [H]e’s in this very vibrant place, Monopoly City, and he’s just come out of a Chance Shop. As it goes on, he takes on the evil Parker Brothers in the game of Monolopy....
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
By Paul Grimaldi The New York attorney general said Tuesday that Woonsocket-based CVS Caremark Corp. (CVS:NYSE) has agreed to pay $875,000 to settle charges that it sold expired products at its stores in that state. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo initiated legal action in 2008 against CVS after a survey by his office found expired products at 60 percent of CVS stores visited, Bloomberg reported....
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
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...
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...
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 [...]
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...
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...
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...
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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