Hasbro, Universal pact may produce Monopoly movie
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Hasbro Inc on Wednesday said it signed  a six-year deal with Universal Pictures for the film company to  make at least four movies based on well-known games like  Monopoly, Battleship, Candy Land and Ouija.
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Warner Bros Entertainment has agreed with  United Arab Emirates' Aldar Properties and a UAE media company  to set up a film and video game production firm,  state-controlled Aldar said on Wednesday.
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Media conglomerate Viacom Inc.  VIAb.N is considering expanding into the video game business  and could acquire publisher Midway Games Inc. MWY.N,  according to a regulatory filing on Friday by Viacom chief  Sumner Redstone, who owns a controlling stake in Midway.
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Why do video-game publishers bother with movie tie-ins? The cost of licensing an anticipated blockbuster (like, say, this summer's "Transformers") is expensive. Designers have to work within creative constraints imposed by the Hollywood studio, and then have to rush to crank out something playable by the time the movie's released. And usually no one &#151; neither gamers nor moviegoers &#151; is satisfied with the results.
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Warner Bros. has scheduled a movie for release next year, and guess what's in it? From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Hasbro Inc. , the second  largest U.S. toy maker, reported a 15 percent rise in  fourth-quarter profit on Friday, helped by strong sales of Nerf  balls and Monopoly board games.
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After months of bitter legal  wrangling, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema and  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc have agreed to make two movies  based on the book "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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More than any other studio, Warner Bros. makes big bets on star vehicles and event films that spare no expense. This holiday season is no exception.
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The company recently crowned a winner in its Monopoly game, one of its best promotional programs.
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Wouldn&#39;t it be great if someone could combine Barnes &amp; Noble (NYSE: BKS), GameStop (NYSE: GME), Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), and Trans World Entertainment&#39;s (Nasdaq: TWMC) FYE music?
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A long-anticipated merger may soon come true.
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A company that snagged a lucrative toy-licensing agreement early on in its history has now established itself as a significant force.
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More than any other studio, Warner Brothers makes big bets on star vehicles and event films that spare no expense. This holiday season is no exception.
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NEW YORK  - Entertainment-themed toys once again generated most of the buzz at the annual Toy Fair gathering amid expectations that "Spider-Man 3," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and "Shrek the Third" will yield blockbuster toy sales this year.
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Electronic Arts, Vivendi Universal Games choose a side in the battle of next-gen DVD formats.
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LOS ANGELES  Media conglomerate Viacom is considering entering the video game business and could acquire Midway Games, Viacom chief Sumner Redstone, who owns a controlling stake in Midway, said in a regulatory filing Friday.
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Entertainment-themed toys  once again generated most of the buzz at the annual Toy Fair  gathering amid expectations that "Spider-Man 3," "Pirates of  the Caribbean: At World's End" and "Shrek the Third" will yield  blockbuster toy sales this year.