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Board games coming to the big screen
Categories: Kids 5-7, Fun & Activities, In The News, That's Entertainment
Imagine if you will a movie based on the board game Candyland. Colorful characters skipping around doing good deeds, others doing bad deeds, everyone trying desperately to avoid the Gooey Gumdrops in the race to Candy Castle. The movie ends with a little kid crying and dropping Queen Frostine in the toilet, never to be seen again. But maybe that's just how Candyland works in my house.
Anyway, if a movie based on a child's board game captures your interest, you are in luck. Hasbro has just signed a deal with Universal Pictures to develop some of their most popular games into feature films. These include Monopoly, Candy Land, Ouija, Battleship, Magic: The Gathering, Stretch Armstrong and possibly Clue.
"This deal gives Universal access to some of the greatest brands in the world," Universal Pictures co-chiefs Marc Shmuger and David Linde said in a statement. "They offer an exciting opportunity for us to develop tentpole movies with built-in global brand awareness."
I don't know what a tentpole movie is, but this announcement makes me wonder what took them so long to come up with this idea. Even if the movie is bad, you know your kid is going to want to see it.
Anyway, if a movie based on a child's board game captures your interest, you are in luck. Hasbro has just signed a deal with Universal Pictures to develop some of their most popular games into feature films. These include Monopoly, Candy Land, Ouija, Battleship, Magic: The Gathering, Stretch Armstrong and possibly Clue.
"This deal gives Universal access to some of the greatest brands in the world," Universal Pictures co-chiefs Marc Shmuger and David Linde said in a statement. "They offer an exciting opportunity for us to develop tentpole movies with built-in global brand awareness."
I don't know what a tentpole movie is, but this announcement makes me wonder what took them so long to come up with this idea. Even if the movie is bad, you know your kid is going to want to see it.
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Tash 2-21-2008 @ 1:22PM
tent pole
n. something, such as a commercial undertaking, a story franchise, or a fictional character, that serves as primary support (for a company, television program, etc.), especially a blockbuster movie which compensates for a studio’s flops. From: http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/tent_pole/
"Jaws" was the first "Tent Pole" movie in the history of moviedom, though the term is a relatively new phrase. A "tent pole" movie is one that is released in the middle of the summer season (which, these days starts a few weeks prior to Memorial Weekend) and is considered the studio's major summer release. There is major hype building up to it and then an enormously wide release. The theory is that the rest of the studio's pictures will be "held up" by this tent pole and give the studio a profitable summer season.
From: http://groups.msn.com/ClassicMovies/movieofthewee.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=9335&LastModified=4675347027216864632&pgmarket=en-us
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queenoqueens 2-21-2008 @ 2:57PM
They already did a movie based on Clue in 1985. It would be interesting to see them come out with yet another movie about the same board game. Kinda lame....there has to be someone out there with a more original idea.
And a movie based on monopoly? Let's hope it's loosely based. The board game is boring enough.
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