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Universal/Hasbro Deal Good News For Gritty Atlantic City Drama 'A House On Baltic Ave.'
Posted by Seth at 5:32 AM on February 21, 2008
· 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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SilverFlake
Posted 7:56 AM 21/2/08
@CatherineTrammell: I'd only allow that if we could get Diablo Cody to do a dialogue pass.
SilverFlake
nojo
Posted 7:56 AM 21/2/08
No one dares enter The House on Baltic Avenue and comes out alive.
nojo
CatherineTrammell
Posted 7:56 AM 21/2/08
@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.
CatherineTrammell
DukeLaCrosse
Posted 7:56 AM 21/2/08
@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!"
DukeLaCrosse
bestdamnedtapper
Posted 7:56 AM 21/2/08
@Brawndo: Amen! "Looks like it's you and me, honeybunch."
bestdamnedtapper
Brawndo
Posted 7:56 AM 21/2/08
Hey! Don't knock the boardgame genre! Even after twenty-three years, Clue is still eminently watchable.
Brawndo
SilverFlake
Posted 7:56 AM 21/2/08
*Crosses fingers for Boggle: The Movie* Starring someone smart like Jodie Foster or Tyler Perry!
SilverFlake
hack-a-rific
Posted 7:56 AM 21/2/08
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.
hack-a-rific
mr_wednesday
Posted 7:56 AM 21/2/08
I can't wait for McG's "Hungry Hungry Hippos". I hear Kirsty Alley is free...
mr_wednesday
Bento
Posted 7:56 AM 21/2/08
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???
Bento