Sometimes, as in the case of "The Avengers," the brand is a comic book and the movie is executed beautifully. But sometimes the brand turns out to be the Hasbro board game "Battleship ...

LOS ANGELES — “Battleship” steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is seaworthy. The Hasbro ...

"Battleship," a Universal Pictures release ... one of those the-world-is-ending-we're-all-gonna-die movies. And because it's a little cheeky and doesn't seem to take itself totally seriously ...

Battleship is an upcoming 2012 science fiction naval war film based on the game of the same name. The film is being directed by Peter Berg and will be released by Universal Pictures. The film ...

Sony Pictures Classics’ Brit period film “Hysteria” fared OK at five locations, averaging $8,166 for an estimated weekend total of $40,829. Steam wanted for ‘Battleship’ Universal hoped ...

In Taiwan, “The Avengers” had the biggest opening day of 2012 ... Universal and Hasbro’s “Battleship” opened overseas in early April, in part to give the movie some distance from ...

The award-winning GI Film Festival (GIFF), the nation’s only military-themed film festival, is pleased to announce the full schedule of events for the 2012 event, which will feature premiere military ...

“Battleship” is the worst humans-fighting-aliens movie I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot of humans-fighting-aliens movies. Perhaps we should have been prepared for this cosmic joke of an ...

The summer of 2012 was a time of many milestones ... A stupid, childish story is clearly not enough reason to avoid a film. Plus, Battleship is not as dumb as it sounds on paper.

LOS ANGELES — “Battleship” steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is sea-worthy.

The film Battleship was indeed conjured up by Hasbro ... Fast forward 7 years to the present, 2012, and both Alex and his brother Stone are stationed aboard Navy Destroyer ships sitting ...