Candy Land

Adventure Time Monopoly Unveiled, We Wonder Why Candy Land Didn’t Happen First [VIDEO]

by Jill Pantozzi | 6:00 pm, May 11th, 2013

IT’S GONNA BE SO FLIPPIN’ AWESOME! (Buy it here.)

(via Kotaku)

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Hollywood Is Still Developing Hasbro’s Hungry Hungry Hippos, Monopoly Into Films

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:44 pm, October 5th, 2012

Yes, I created a meme just for this story. Deal with it.

6 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies That Hollywood Should Be Making Instead of Candy Land

by Rebecca Pahle | 12:30 pm, June 6th, 2012

Anyone else get the feeling that Hollywood is out of ideas? Take a look at this summer’s studio releases. What do you see? A lot of entries into pre-existing franchises (The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Prometheus), a sequel or twelve (Men in Black III, Madagascar 3), some additions to the “edgy kid’s story” genre that’s refused to die since Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland made bank, two movies based on self-help books (Think Like a Man, What to Expect When You’re Expecting), and one that draws its inspiration from a board game (Battleship). Look, I’m not here to pooh-pooh the idea of sequels, prequels, reboots, remakes—there are some ridiculously unnecessary ones, sure, but if I told you my level of anticipation for The Dark Knight Rises is not positively stratospheric I’d be lying.

I’m not asking that Hollywood start coming out with original content or anything, because A) that’s what indie movies are for, and B) it would be unrealistic. Hollywood exists to make money. If people pay to see Madagascar 3, they’re going to make Madagascar 4. That’s how it works. But still. Movie versions of Candy Land (and Adam Sandler is attached, oh goodie!), Stretch Armstrong, and the Ouija board are in the works. Hollywood, I implore you: If you’re going to adapt something, can’t it be something good?

Adam Sandler Is Going to Produce and Star in the Candyland Movie

by Jamie Frevele | 11:04 am, February 1st, 2012

Good morning, readers! Allow us to present a story that will leave you either scratching your heads or throwing a heavy object at the wall: Columbia Pictures and Hasbro have announced that the Candyland movie they’ve been working on (the one based on the board game — that has been described as “an operatic, ‘King Lear’-like civil war in a kingdom that just happened to be made completely out of candy” — has found a production partner in Happy Madison Productions. That would be Adam Sandler‘s production company. And if you’re wondering if it’s going to star Adam Sandler … then you have wondered correctly. Wow. What to do about all these mixed feelings I’m having.

Risk, the Board Game, Is Going to Become a Film

by Jamie Frevele | 3:34 pm, June 10th, 2011

The board game-movie craze will not end with Candyland, so let’s brace ourselves: It has been announced that a screenwriter has been hired to write a screenplay based on the classic Parker Brothers board game Risk. The game, which was created by a French film director in 1957, has the objective of gaining worldwide domination through the conquering of nations. And that sounds like it would be an incredibly long movie.

The People Making the Candyland Movie Are Still Totally Serious

by Susana Polo | 11:47 am, June 3rd, 2011

What if there was an operatic, ‘King Lear’-like civil war in a kingdom that just happened to be made completely out of candy?” And you take the action sequences seriously and you take the comedic elements seriously and there’s a real emotional journey the characters go on. Having just done that, twice over, with a giant plush panda, we thought “Maybe we could try it again with candy.” – Glenn Berger, screenwriter for Universal Studios’ Candyland.

We thought this was weird the first time around, but when you put it that way…

Fair enough. Godspeed, people making the Candyland movie.

(via /Film.)

what is this I don't even

“We envision it as Lord of The Rings, but set in a world of candy”

by Susana Polo | 11:59 am, May 24th, 2011

We don’t see it as a movie based on a board game, although it has characters from that world and takes the idea of people finding themselves in a world that happens to be made entirely of candy where there are huge battles going on. We are going for real comedy, real action, and real emotions at stake.

– Jonathan Aibel, one of the creators behind a big screen adaptation of Hasbro’s Candy Land.

Wait, wait, I think I’ve seen this.