The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers, from Tiddley Winks to Trivial Pursuit
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
A board game story THE Wall Street Journal has a fascinating story today about a man named Ralph Anspach—an economist—who created a board game called Anti-Monopoly and was sued by actual Monopoliy producer Hasbro for his trouble. As a defence, Mr Anspach decided to challenge the traditional story of the game's origination: that it was created by Charles Darrow during the Great Depression,...
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