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Times are tough, but word on the street is that video games could be recession proof. That’s why we predict purveyors of the medium will sign off on even more dubious game adaptations of movies. After scratching our heads over the troubling Watchmen: The End Is Nigh game, a bald effort to cash in on the March movie, we decided to do the Hollywood gaming industry a solid by providing this handy guide to key flicks best left unmolested. Read up, little pimps! More »
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The quest for classic scifi texts to bring to the big screen may finally have gone too far. Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures are negotiating for the rights to film E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensmen novels, which are so dated that any adaptation will be either unrecognizable or unwatchable. And yet the series helped launch the whole genre of space opera, so it's easy to understand the temptation. Click through for the awful details. More »
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