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Multiple Personality Disorder report

13 November 2009 3:49 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

[Editor's Note: Multiple Personality Disorder Reports are short news blasts meant to let you know about the stuff that didn't make it to the news page but still had us talking behind the scenes]

#1 "Acolytes" director Jon Hewitt prepping “X”

Jon Hewitt is preparing to shoot a follow up his teen serial killer film. X will take a trip into the underbelly of Australia’s sex trade. Shooting is slated to start in early 2010.

#2 "Deadgirl" writer to step behind the camera for "Chop"

Deadgirl caught a lot of heat for its controversial subject matter and now writer Trent Haaga is preparing to step behind the camera for Chop. The new project is being toted as a "revenge thriller with a comedic edge in the tradition of "Fargo" and "Oldboy"." The time may be ripe to finally catch up with Deadgil.

#3 "Submarine" adds great cast

Richard Ayoade's adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's coming of age story Submarine had previously cast Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige but it's the addition of the great Paddy Considine and Sally Hawkins that has us excited. If the comparisons »

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Monopoly Movie Concept Revealed

12 November 2009 1:25 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Recently, Geoff Boucher from the La Times had a chance to sit down with producer Frank Beddor (There’s Something About Mary), one of the minds behind the Monopoly concept, and Beddor gave readers the first ever look into what the story for the upcoming movie adaptation of Monopoly will be. What he said is not totally surprising: Beddor is working on a re-imagining of the Alice in Wonderland story called the Looking Glass Wars and he took that idea and applied it to Monopoly.

“[Hasbro has] this big world and this game — it’s the most famous board game in the world — and it just really came out of the whole ‘Alice’ thing. I took the approach of thinking of the main character falling down a rabbit hole and into a real place called Monopoly City … It was the re-engineering of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ that got me thinking and then with »

- Paul Young

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Ridley Scott’s ‘Monopoly’ Gets A Plot

12 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

There have been plenty of optioned films over the past few months that don’t make a lot of sense. Peter Berg will be directing a film based on Battleship, Michael Bay is producing Ouija, and Kevin Lima (Enchanted) is directing Candy Land. One other that has struck a “huh?” chord more than others is Ridley Scott’s directing of a movie based on the game Monopoly.

Scott, who is best known for directing such epic (and not family-oriented) films as Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator, was supposedly sold on the film during a pitch meeting with Universal and producer Frank Beddor (There’s Something About Mary). In an interview with the La Times, Beddor goes into detail on the pitch that got Ridley Scott so interested.

“I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good »

- Matt Raub

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/Filmcast Ep. 75 - The Box (Guest: Matt Singer from IFC News)

10 November 2009 10:29 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

This week, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley wonder whether or not Avatar will actually be profitable, express bafflement at the inclusion of aliens in Peter Berg's Battleship film, and ponder whether Jake Gyllenhaal's Prince of Persia constitutes brownface. Special guest Matt Singer joins us from the IFC News podcast. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us next Monday at 9 Pm Est / 6 Pm Pst at Slashfilm's live page as we review 2012. Download or Play Now in your Browser: [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/slashfilmcast/Slashfilmcastep75.mp3] Subscribe to the /Filmcast: Shownotes Introduction (00:25) Subscribe to the Tobolowsky Files new podcast feed at Tobolowskyfiles.com! (01:47) Introducing Matt Singer from IFC (03:15) A note about guests: Leave us comments and tweets if you like them! What We've Been Watching Matt (07:15): The Grand, Sliding Doors David Chen (17:08): A Christmas Carol »

- David Chen

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'The Hobbit' And 'The A-Team' Cameos In Today's Dailies -- 11/10/09

10 November 2009 3:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

-- Let the speculation begin. "Howling Mad" Murdock actor Dwight Schultz will be showing up for a cameo in Joe Carnahan's "The A-Team," according to a fansite. Hopefully, this means we'll be seeing other cameos from the rest of the team. Who doesn't want to see Mr. T give this young guns A-Team a vote of confidence with a tiny cameo role. Hell, he can leave his gold chains at home if it makes him happy. Schultz is great, but the fans want what they want: bring back T. (The Official Dwight Schultz Fansite, via Cinematical)

-- "Mad Men" producer Matthew Weiner is turning his attention to film now that the latest season is finished. He's now getting set to helm "You Are Here," a romantic comedy that he wrote. Independent financing is already in place and the cast will include the likes of Jennifer Aniston and "The Hangover »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Battleship To Go Intergalactic

9 November 2009 10:53 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

When Battleship, the film project based on the classic Hasbro/Milton Bradley game, was first announced in May it didn't seem like that bad an idea. It had a more than capable director attached (Peter Berg) and would be about naval warfare, which could look very cool on screen. Hell, in a world of Jem and The Holograms, Stretch Armstrong, and Barbie it seemed like a damned good idea. Then they had to go ahead and mess it up Indy 4-style. The folks over at Latino Review have revealed that Peter Berg's Battleship will be about... aliens. That's right. Fucking aliens. It is not yet known if the story has been moved to space or the interstellar creatures managed to commandeer a vessel on the high seas, but either way the idea is depressing. The original concept isn't that hard to adapt, and is already well-fit into the cinema »

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Aliens To Sink Peter Berg’s Battleship?

9 November 2009 10:47 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

We learned early this summer that Universal is planning a Battleship board game movie, then a couple of months ago Peter Berg (Hancock) was tapped to direct, and a release date was set for July 1st, 2011 (apparently it’s been changed to August 5th, 2011). Berg has described the Battleship movie as, “an epic naval action adventure,” that is, “a contemporary story of an international five-ship fleet engaged in a very dynamic, violent and intense battle.”

That was enough to go on at the time, but what Berg Didn’T mention was who the enemy was going to be…that is, until now. On Friday, Latino Review got a scoop that confirmed (their words, not ours) from a source that the foes the “hero” battleships were presumably going to be battling against are… wait for it… aliens! That’s right, extraterrestrials presumably attacking earth for our wonderful resources (what’s left of them, »

- Ross Miller

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Peter Berg to Direct Army of Two Video Game Adaptation

9 November 2009 10:46 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Over the past few months, we've seen director Peter Berg drop out of a couple of upcoming projects including the robot boxing film Real Steel [1], and the remake of Frank Herbert's Dune [2]. Clearly he's in demand after directing Hancock, but what exactly has he been freeing up his schedule for? Well, we already know that he's going to be directing Universal's Battleship [3] movie, but now in addition to a board game movie, it looks like he has added a video game adaptation to his list of potential projects as well. Yay? A recent article in Variety [4] examines some of the properties that EA is licensing out to TV, movies and comics. Among them is the previously announced big screen version of Army of Two, about two mercenaries working for the U.S. military who get caught up in a political conspiracy in the Middle East. We knew that Scott Z. Burns »

- Sean

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Weekend Recap - 'Precious,' J.J. Abrams, 'Battleship'

9 November 2009 4:14 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

Even though A Christmas Carol didn't earn as much money as it was expected to, there was still big box office news over the weekend. The probable Best Picture nominee Precious only played in 18 theaters and still nearly made two million bucks. That's a record.

We're also getting to the end of the decade, which means a lot of lists you're sure to disagree with. And we found one of those on Saturday. Also, Natalie Portman talks about her upcoming Black Swan lesbian scene, and Peter Berg's Battleship might be attacked be...aliens. Sigh/head shake.

Portman calls sex scene "extreme"

Telegraph's Top 100 of the decade

J.J. Abrams close to producing Micronauts movie

Danny Boyle's next movie to feature dialogue-free hour

What in the hell is Peter Berg doing to Battleship?

Taylor Swift's SNL Twilight spoof

Box Office: A record-breaking weekend for Precious »

- Colin Boyd

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What Two Sides Will Tussle In Peter Berg’s BattleShip?

9 November 2009 3:43 AM, PST | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »

It’s been known for awhile now that Peter Berg is set to direct a film strangely based on the famous Hasbro board game Battleship. Other than the whole ship on ship naval war concept I’m not sure there can be much more to adapting the board game but who knows? Latino Review has the scoop that the foe to take on the human fleet upon the deep blue sea is Aliens. Yes that’s right. It’ll be Aliens. I don’t remember Aliens in the board game unless you count my brother across from me on Christmas morning. Well, I guess that spices it up a bit. Battleship has a release date already. It’s August 5, 2011. Filming will get underway in the Spring. »

- endymi0n

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Aliens, Another Reason to Get Excited for Battleship

8 November 2009 10:10 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

I was trying to remain positive about this upcoming Battleship movie because I think director Peter Berg has the potential to be great, but he's making it really hard for me right now. Latino Review got the scoop a few days ago that the big bad in Battleship won't be Nazis, reverse vampires, or ominous looking pegs. Instead, it's aliens. With this news I'm getting the sinking feeling that we're not getting the promising Peter Berg who gave us The Rundown, The Kingdom, and helped bring the fantastic Friday Night Lights to television---instead, I'm envisioning the guy who gave us Hancock. That the film is coming from the brother writing team Jon and Erich Hoeber, they who gave us Whiteout, is no more heartening. Then again, I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. What we're getting is a film adaptation of a Hasbro board game, and just like this year's G. »

- Devindra Hardawar

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You sank my ‘Battleship’: Peter Berg’s adaptation to feature aliens?

8 November 2009 2:28 PM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Director Peter Berg, who is known for chugging a few Red Bulls with his cereal, may be smoking to much peyote or watching too many Roland Emmerich/Michael Bay movies.

According to an unnamed source (grains of salt should be included), Latino Review is reporting that Berg’s big-screen adaptation of everyone’s favorite naval game, Battleship, will not feature your regular run-of-the-mill naval fights. Instead, it will be something out of this world.

The film will not merely focus on two countries matching wits on the open seas, it will have an international fleet (wait) fighting (for) against (it) aliens. Aliens…

Aliens. The toy trash craze is really heading into weird territory. With movies like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, one could understand why filmmakers and studios were so hellbent on making idiocy the genre du jour for audiences purely for the »

- Reel Loop News Staff

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‘Battleship’ Enemy Revealed and It’s Ridiculous

8 November 2009 12:02 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

In September, Peter Berg signed to direct Battleship, a board game adaptation and live-action naval adventure at Universal Pictures.  The fast-tracked feature has already been scheduled for summer 2011.

At the time, we didn’t know what the “contemporary story” would be other than five international ships set out to sea to battle an unknown force.  The potential for a Hunt for Red October style film was there, which made this a tad more intriguing than say… the Monopoly or Candy Land movies.

Spoilers ahead: A tipster for Latino Review revealed who the opponent will be and it’s not Somali pirates.  The fleet will battle aliens…  That’s right, aliens.  Isn’t that an entirely different game?

Underwater aliens?  Outer space submarines?  It sounds too crazy, but at the same time it almost sounds just ridiculous enough to be true.  Sources close to the production confirmed this as a major spoiler. »

- Jeff Leins

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It's Aliens, I Tell You! It's Aliens Who've Sunk My Battleship!

7 November 2009 12:23 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

But seriously. We already know that the classic Hasbro board game, Battleship, is being adapted into a live-action feature film to be directed by Peter Berg. We know that Universal is planning on releasing it on August 5th, 2011. We know that the film will be shooting next Spring. What we didn't know, until now, however, is just who the international five-ship fleet (discussed by Berg) would be fighting. Well, according to Latino Review, we do now. Aliens. Sorry. Let me have another go at that. Aliens! Oh yes. Sweet Zuul, yes. There's no word on what type of aliens, where they'll be from (aside from Outer! Space!), or which leader they'll demand to see, but, again... we're talking about aliens here. Who cares about the logistics. Now, in this next paragraph, I could do a couple of different things. I could choose to brutally eviscerate Universal and Peter Berg and »

- Brandon Lee Tenney

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Wait Till You See Who Sank Your 'Battleship'

7 November 2009 12:17 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

As it stands now, I may have to retract what I've been saying about Battleship. Peter Berg is attached to direct the board game movie and he said a couple months ago what a big Navy buff he is and how he has this vision of a great big non-historical WWII naval battle film, and that would be fantastic. Or could be; I should soften my certitude.

Anyway, Berg updated his stance since latching on to the project, saying it would be a contemporary action flick set at sea. That's Ok, too, I guess. But now Latino Review says it looks like Battleship might involve...wait for it...aliens. That's not confirmed by Universal, but it's sufficiently daffy enough to be the kind of directive only a studio could come up with. »

- Colin Boyd

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Battleship spoilers?

7 November 2009 1:20 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Warning: As the headline implies, there are potential and substantial spoilers below. When we first heard that Universal was making a movie based on the classic game Battleship, it led to some head-scratching. How did they figure out a way to transform random guesses and the insertion of plastic pegs into a compelling and family-friendly movie about naval combat? What was it that lured filmmaker Peter Berg (The Kingdom, The Rundown, Hancock), and made the studio confident enough to slot it... »

- Dave Davis

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Aliens to be the Opponents in Peter Berg's 'Battleship' Movie?

6 November 2009 9:20 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

We're not quite sure if we like this idea or not (it falls under the intriguing yet silly categories simultaneously), but according to Latino Review, the antagonists in director Peter Berg's new Battleship movie will be aliens.

Yep, that's right, they're apparently from outer space, if Latino's report is correct. "Et, you sank my battleship!"

Not much else is known about the Peter Berg-helmed project, other than the director's own description for the film, which he laid out as "a contemporary story of an international five-ship fleet engaged in a very dynamic, violent and intense battle."

Berg is something of a student of naval history, so we have to confess that this intrigues us somewhat...though battling aliens is a tricky business that will have to be handled deftly, otherwise it could descend into camp and just feel like a big budget episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. »

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Risk the Next Board Game To Hit the Big Screen

6 November 2009 12:15 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Director Peter Berg is adapting Battleship for Universal, the Tron Legacy writers are working on a Ouija Board screenplay for Platinum Dunes and Paramount, so is it any wonder that Sony Pictures wants to make a movie based on the board game Risk? While former players of the game might question how it could be adapted into a movie, Columbia president Doug Belgrad told Variety that the game is a natural fit for the big screen treatment.

The strategic thinking and the tactical gambles that players must take in the game are what make Risk a classic, thoroughly engaging game. Those elements translated into an action-packed, thrilling story are what will make this a uniquely exciting movie.

Risk will be produced by actor Will Smith and producer James Lassitter's Overbrook production company. Could Smith be willing to accept an acting role in the adaptation? Well, he does have a history »

- Ryan Gowland

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Sony Takes Risk: The Film of World Domination

5 November 2009 1:01 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

Sony Pictures has acquired the movie rights to the board game “Risk” from Hasbro.  The studio is hoping the “strategic and tactical gameplay” will translate to the silver screen.

The game of world domination was created in 1957 by French film director Albert Lamorisse before it was purchased by Parker Brothers two years later.  Parker Bros was then acquired by Hasbro in 1991. For those of you who haven’t amassed your forces in Kamchatka, Risk is a turn based board game for 2 to 6 players where you try to capture territories and control the world with your army.

In the trade paper announcement, Columbia Pictures President Doug Belgrad cites the success of franchises like Transformers and G.I. Joe as reason enough to pour more money into rainy day nostalgia.

The studios, especially Universal, seem to be moving aggressively forward with these toy and board game adaptations. Video game movies didn’t »

- Jeff Leins

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Sony Gets Into “Risk”-y Business

4 November 2009 4:34 PM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

We’ve got Ridley Scott’s Monopoly on the horizon. We’ve got Peter Berg’s Battleship. We have Ouija. Risk? Hey, why not?

Sony Pictures has picked up the board game that is hell-bent on world domination. So what does that mean? Well, according to one of Columbia’s representatives, it means a world of possibilities:

“The strategic thinking and the tactical gambles that players must take in the game are what make Risk a classic, thoroughly engaging game,” said Columbia prexy Doug Belgrad. Those elements translated into an action-packed, thrilling story are what will make this a uniquely exciting movie.”

So what, like every war movie that has ever been released ever? How creative.

You can bet your bottom dollar that this film will come to fruition though — Hasbro has inked a deal with Sony to produce at least four movies based on their properties. If G.I. »

- John Cooper

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