The prospect of taking classic board game Battleship, a guessing game with no real story, and turning it into a big-budget summer film for Universal and Hasbro Studios — with clear hopes of it ...

Is there a more defeated competitive swan song than “you sunk my battleship”? The strategy board game, which even received silver screen treatment replete with an aquaflage-wearing Rihanna, has been ...

Peter Berg has earned a reputation as a bit of a brash filmmaker. He's outspoken, he's opinionated, and when pushed he's proven he isn't afraid to push back. He's the kind of man's man who, one gets ...

“Battleship”is not the first major motion picture to be based on a board game — who could forget 1985’s benighted “Clue”? — but it is surely the most expensive. With every superhero more celebrated ...

Hasbro charted the course of its board games business by way of the movie theatre. Now, after Battleship sank in its U.S. opening, Hasbro seems a bit dead in the water. Investors would do well to ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. So I don't know about you but I've played the old Battleship ...

Activision has announced that it will be making a licensed video game based on the upcoming movie adaptation of the Battleship board game. Interestingly, they've hired Double Helix to helm the project ...