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Universal hopes you’re ready for some hot naval action because they’ve set a release date and officially announced Peter Berg while be at the helm of Battleship.

So you make a completely original space story about two brothers who fly spaceships and blow things up and call it Asteroids? Does that really count as an adaptation? Can you adapt a game with zero story to it? What exactly are you adapting? Why does my head hurt?

After some disagreements on the script, and no other takers, Sony has officially killed the project, and Brad Pitt is looking for something else to do.

In other news: Fox is working on a Hitman sequel. No word yet on who will have to go bald for it.

Oscar-winner and potential stooge Sean Penn has decided to take some time off, meaning that the Farrelly Brothers will have to find a new Larry and Universal will need to find a new lead for its thriller Cartel.

Paramount especially might be moving toward consolidation in the coming year according to at least one financial analyst.

In what is apparently not a sequel to Captain Ron, Justin Theroux will hop into the director’s chair and make fun of Native Americans or the government or someone.

Instead of getting irate about all the new, crappy toy adaptations coming down the pipe, let’s celebrate a few toys that could be made into equally crappy adaptations!

Martin Scorsese has his next project in development, complete with a screenwriter and a famous crooner as his subject. Now who should play Old Blue Eyes?

So Universal wants to focus on Milli Vanilli instead of, say, actual musicians. Now let’s see if I can avoid making fun of Brett Ratner for an entire article. Spoiler Alert: I can’t.

There’s one major reason why none of that matters, and I promise I eventually get to it at some point during my rambling, nonsensical rant.

By “the grown up,” I of course mean that they are engaged in a purely platonic, business relationship to distribute movies together. And probably sleeping together.

What happens when you catch your distribution partner in bed with another company? You make sure the divorce is finalized once and for all.

Universal and EA Games plan on dragging us down to Hell. Which circle is for executives that steal ideas again?

In what could be the beginning of a new trend, Universal has acquired the rights to a comic book series for adaption into a feature film or possible franchise.

The producer of “Wanted” wants to bring another pistol packing graphic novel to the big screen.

QT may have found a big name with deep pockets to help bring Inglorious Bastards to a big screen near you.

Universal Studios has optioned Eli Stone creator Marc Guggenheim’s current comic book Resurrection for further development.

Universal Studios and Dark Horse have signed a 3 year production and development deal. What does this mean for movie fans? Step inside, step inside!

Universal has very casually confirmed the existence of a fourth film that will include both Matt Damon and Paul Greengras.