· Hollywood Out of Ideas: Holy Shit, Now They're Raiding the Game Closet Edition. Universal signs a six-year deal with Hasbro to produce "at least four feature films based on branded properties." Among the classic toys and boardgames in their stable: Monopoly, Candy Land, and Ouija. Bay + Candy Land + Giant Fucking Gumdrops + Marshmellow Explosions = Wicked. [Variety]
· The NBC Universal Super-Exec League of Silver Man, The Zucker, and The Phantom Graboff have connected their powerful Peacock Rings and once again produced the impossible: a 52-week programming schedule. You read that right: 52 weeks. They are truly amazing. [Variety]
· Variety sticks fork in this year's Oscar telecast, declares it done. [Variety]
· More guild award results: The 10th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards gave Blades of Glory (contemporary), Sweeney Todd (period), and The Golden Compass (fantasy) their top honors, with the Platinum Codpiece awarded to Sacha Baron Cohen for excellence in the package-stuffing arts. [THR]
· Monk is back for a seventh season. Yay! Who doesn't love a little more Monk? We're definitely going to get around to watching an episode this go-around. [Variety]
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Is "Monopoly" going to be like Cloverfield where we don't really ever get a good look at the Giant Top Hat and Shoe until the very end???
I can't wait for McG's "Hungry Hungry Hippos". I hear Kirsty Alley is free...
I'm seriously repressed today. Not only did I immediately imagine how lovely it would be to get covered in the shrapnel of a marshmellow explosion, but I also imagined a friendly game of naked Grab Off b/t Zucker and Silverman in the NBC Executive Spa.
*Crosses fingers for Boggle: The Movie* Starring someone smart like Jodie Foster or Tyler Perry!
Hey! Don't knock the boardgame genre! Even after twenty-three years, Clue is still eminently watchable.
@Brawndo: Amen! "Looks like it's you and me, honeybunch."
@Brawndo: Oh, hell yeah.
"Well you tell him it's not true!"
"It's not true."
"Is that true?"
"No, it's not true."
"Ha ha! So it IS true!"
@SilverFlake: Please don't go around making suggestions like that. The next thing you know, we're going to have "Tyler Perry's Boggle" in development and it will involve him in an old lady fat suit.
No one dares enter The House on Baltic Avenue and comes out alive.
@CatherineTrammell: I'd only allow that if we could get Diablo Cody to do a dialogue pass.
I'm sorry, but no movie they make centered around an Ouija board is going to surpass Witchboard. Although, I imagine Tawny Kitaen and Patch from Days are still available to star.
People, Hasbro makes Ants in the Pants.
I can see it now. A deadly new STD rocks a local high school. Sexy teens are forced to abstain lest their genitals become infested with red, itching, stinging critters.
@Guadalahonky: Steve "Patch" Johnson is back on DOOL...not that I record the show daily or anything.
How dare they remake Candyland: The Great Lolipop Adventure! [www.imdb.com]
Graphic request - talon pic should now be gilded (or is it guilded, ha ha) in silver.
For your consideration: Wilford Brimley as Rich Uncle Moneybags.
Scattergories: There's a serial killer on the loose who will love you to bits. Ashley Judd stars.
Nerf: Rob Schneider wakes up to discover he's made of foam rubber.
Easy-Bake: The Wayans Brothers get the munchies.
My Little Pony: Rob Schneider wakes up to discover he's a little pony.
Jenga: Robin Williams is a magical visitor who teaches a band of spunky tweens to stack things.
Nicolas Cage, solve all your IRS problems when you sign on to Mister Potato Head, a magical fun family romp with support from the Idaho Film Council.
Operation: The Movie will clearly be a horror classic. I still hear that fucking buzzer in my nightmares.
Why aren't they making Risk into a movie? It's got all the things movie moguls love in a war pic, and the the maps are already done...
@Miss d: Doesn't George Clooney do that every two or three years?
Waaaaaait a minute, doesn't Hasbro own ROM: Spaceknight? Now THAT's a movie I'd pay to see.
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