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1.<\/a> Director Ridley Scott and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner say their film version of Monopoly<\/a><\/i> will reflect the current economic crisis. As it happens, the current version of the board game was patented in 1935<\/a>, at the height of the Great Depression. \u2014 MTV Movies Blog<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/a> Goldner says the movie based on Hasbro\u2019s Ouija board will be a spooky horror film that tells people to be careful what they wish for, and it will ask whether the Ouija board is really just a game: \u201cHalf of the people that play Ouija as a s\u00e9ance think it\u2019s just a game. The other half thinks it\u2019s much more serious than that. So that idea, is this real or is this just sort of imagined? Is this something that\u2019s done by the participants or is this something that\u2019s really from beyond?\u201d \u2014 MTV Movies Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

3.<\/a> Pirates of the Caribbean<\/a><\/i> director Gore Verbinski is in final negotiations to direct a movie based on Clue<\/i>. The board game was previously turned into a feature film \u2014 with three different endings, all released to theatres \u2014 in 1985. \u2014 Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> (x2<\/a>)<\/p>\n

4.<\/a> The title character in Stretch Armstrong<\/a><\/i>, currently being written by Steve Oedekerk of Bruce Almighty<\/a><\/i> and Kung Pow: Enter the Fist<\/i> fame, will be a reluctant superhero. \u201cImagine a comedic way to get into reluctantly finding out that you now have all these powers, and what do you do with it,\u201d says Goldner. \u201cEspecially if people want to get their hands on those powers.\u201d \u2014 MTV Splash Page<\/a><\/p>\n

5.<\/a> Amazingly, there was no<\/i> new news this past week about the latest G.I. Joe<\/a><\/i> and Transformers<\/a><\/i> movies, both of which come out this summer.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"