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Will Smith bringing classic board game Risk to the big screen

It looks like Hollywood’s going diving into the classic board game seas for inspiration again, as Sony Pictures has apparently nabbed bigscreen rights to the board game Risk from Hasbro according to Variety. Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment will produce the film alongside the studio. Risk pits players against one another in a ….

District 9 and Descent directors both up for Dune reboot?

Recently Josh Zetumer (Untitled Jason Bourne 4 Project) submitted a 175 page draft script for the new Dune film that director Peter Berg (Hancock) was at the time attached to helm. At the time, Berg said that he and Zetume would attempt to “beat the script into something manageable without offending the purists”, according to ….

Fox prepping a Spore movie for EA, plus Mass Effect, Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno films are in the works

Fox is teaming up with Electronic Arts to turn the Spore game, which has developed into a worldwide ecosystem – into an animated monster film, with Chris Wedge (Ice Age) attached to direct, according to Variety. Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, who wrote Disney’s upcoming The Princess and the Frog, will write the screenplay for ….

New behind-the-scenes images emerge from comic adaptation The Losers

ComingSoon nabbed the above photo of Idris Elba and Jeffrey Dean Morgan shooting an action scene in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico for Stomp the Yard director Sylvain White’s comic book adaptation The Losers, which will be in theaters on April 9, 2010. Hancock director Peter Berg wrote the script for The Losers, based on Andy ….

History of Super Hero Movies: Past, Present and Future panel to take place at NYCC

Comic books started out modestly eight decades ago, printed on pulp paper and appealing to a very young audience. Today, comics are American mythology with a broad ranging readership, with legendary characters and stories that have transcended time and inspired generations of readers and artists in all different mediums. Film and entertainment historian Eddy Friedfeld ….