Universal Pictures to Fight Asteroids
comingsoon.net 7/2/2009 — Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids," says The Hollywood Reporter . Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di ...

Universal To Make Asteroids Movie
slashfilm.com 7/2/2009 — When movie studios are developing big budget big screen movies based on Stretch Armstrong and Candyland , I knew it was only a matter of time before Hollywood started to mine some of the classic video games of the children of the ...

Asteroids Movie Coming To The Big Screen
screenrant.com 7/2/2009 — It seems we’re just going to have to get used to the fact that Hollywood is adapting all sorts of beloved properties from our childhoods - everything from toys , to board games and video games . Today we get the news that Universal has ...

Universal to Adapt Classic Atari Game Asteroids as a Movie
filmjunk.com 7/2/2009 — Yet another head-scratcher coming from Universal Pictures this week as they have apparently picked up the film rights to the classic Atari and arcade game Asteroids . Yes, that’s right Asteroids… the game with a little triangular ship ...

'Asteroids': That's a Movie Now
iwatchstuff.com 7/2/2009 — Solidifying the notion that film concepts are no longer so much actual ideas as much as notable words, the movie rights to Asteroids , the 1979 Atari game that consisted of absolutely nothing but a triangular ship shooting shapes that looked ...

Universal Hits Some Asteroids
atomicpopcorn.net 7/2/2009 — "I will own you stupid random alien...dude!" Video game adaptations will never die, despite what we all might think after the abomination trilogy on the big screen that is Resident Evil. Still taking great advantage of this semi popular genre of sorts, Universal Pictures nabbed itself the ...

ASTEROIDS. ASTEROIDS IS AN EFFING MOVIE NOW.
filmdrunk.uproxx.com 7/2/2009 — The other day in a radio interview the host was asking me about Hollywood’s recent hard on for remakes and stuff that could never be a good movie in a million years. “What’s next?” the host asked me, “A movie about ...

Universal Making a Movie out of Atari's Asteroids Game
firstshowing.net 7/2/2009 — They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel this time. Universal won a bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids that first debuted in 1979. Yep, that very simple, arcade game involving a triangle ...

Universal Soldier 3 starts a New Generation
film-book.com 4/24/2009 — Universal Soldier 3 or Universal Soldier: The Next Generation is being filmed starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. If you saw the first Universal Soldier and watched Lundgren’s Sgt. Andrew Scott get diced at the end of the film you may be wondering how he can possibly be in ...

Fogelsman and Langley Take Over at Universal Pictures
comingsoon.net 10/6/2009 — Universal Pictures unexpectedly announced today that Adam Fogelson is the new Chairman and Donna Langley has been named Co-Chairman, replacing Marc Shmuger and David Linde immediately. Here is the announcement: Adam Fogelson has been named Chairman, ...