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Entertainment One has set a first-look agreement with producer Jeremy Latcham, who previously served as SVP Production and Development at Marvel Studios. With the recent eOne acquisition by Hasbro, the new partnership will boost eOne's ability to produce mainstream film and TV content mined from Hasbro's existing…

EXCLUSIVE: The long awaited screen adaptation of the massive role playing game hit Dungeons & Dragons is one step closer to happening. Sources said that Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley are in discussions to direct the film for Paramount and Hasbro’s AllSpark Pictures banner. Goldstein & Daley most recently…

Paramount has just dated four event movies for 2020 and 2021. The long-awaited third G.I. Joe will march into multiplexes on March 27, 2020. Lorenzo di Bonaventura produced the last two movies G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and G.I. Joe: Retaliation based off the Hasbro toyline/Marvel published Comic-Book which both grossed…

Over 10 months after the final arguments in the lawsuit over whether production company Sweetpea Entertainment or toy giant Hasbro owned the sequel rights to Dungeons & Dragons, Warner Bros today announced that everything is resolved and they are making a D& D movie. "We are so excited about bringing the world of Dunge…

The legal battle over whether production company Sweetpea Entertainment or toy giant Hasbro owns sequel rights to Dungeons & Dragons came has come to an end — at least for now. But the seven-day trial that wrapped late Tuesday in federal court in downtown LA did not end quietly. "Hasbro cannot have it both ways,"…

The battle over who will make the next Dungeons & Dragons movie finally had its day in court – though what the endgame is seems to be in dispute. "This lawsuit is a desperate and last-ditch attempt to recapture rights," lawyer Patricia Glaser told a federal courtroom in LA today about toy company Hasbro’s long legal…

The moves over who owns the rights to make a Dungeons & Dragons movie and who is actually going to make one have taken another roll of the dice on the legal tabletop with studios Universal and Warner Bros watching on the sidelines. More than half a year after Hasbro filed a copyright and trademark infringement…

The legal maneuvering over who actually owns movie rights to Dungeons & Dragons has gone to another level. Months after Hasbro filed a copyright and trademark infringement complaint against Sweetpea Entertainment, the defendant counterclaimed last week. And they were not too nuanced about it: "Sweetpea has the sole…

UPDATE, 5:52 PM: The other player in the battle over who owns the movie rights to Dungeons & Dragons has just made their latest move. Regardless of the copyright and trademark infringement complaint filed today by Hasbro, Sweetpea Entertainment say they intend to move ahead with their D&D film at Warner Bros. "This is…

EXCLUSIVE: Yesterday, I broke a story about Warner Bros making big plans on a live-action feature based on the role-playing fantasy game fixture Dungeons & Dragons. Not so fast, says Hasbro, which claims that it owns the rights to D&D, and that the toymaker company has set up the project at Universal to be developed…

EXCLUSIVE: This ought to reverberate through the geek realm. Warner Bros has acquired rights to make a movie based on Dungeons & Dragons, the perennially popular role-playing game fantasy game. The studio is actually quite far along in the development of the project, as it will use a script by Wrath Of The Titans and R…