{"id":725674,"date":"2010-04-28T17:14:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20133ed07163a970b"},"modified":"2010-04-28T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:14:54","slug":"paramount-pictures-working-on-a-live-action-magic-8-ball-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/725674","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures working on a live-action Magic 8 Ball movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2010\/04\/paramount-pictures-working-on-a-liveaction-magic-8-ball-movie.html\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Magic-8-ball\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e201348036c190970c \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e201348036c190970c-200wi\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All signs point to yes. That&#8217;s the answer when the question is: Will Hollywood continue to raid the toy chest for ideas? The latest in a rash of toy-to-movie deals comes from Paramount, which has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2010\/04\/paramount-seeks-film-fortunes-from-mattels-magic-8-ball\/\" >optioned Mattel&#8217;s Magic 8 Ball for a live-action feature<\/a>, according to Deadline.com. The studio has already had a money-gushing run with action-movie versions of Hasbro&#8217;s Transformers (which has become a billion-dollar franchise) and G.I. Joe. Next up is a Paramount\/Mattel collaboration on Max Steel, starring <em>Twilight<\/em>&#8216;s shapeshifting hunk Taylor Lautner. Others in the plastic-to-celluloid pipeline include Mattel&#8217;s View-Master (at DreamWorks, probably in 3D!), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (at Warner Bros.) and the vintage action figure Major Matt Mason (at Universal). Hasbro&#8217;s Oiuja board, Monopoly and Battleship games are set for big-screen treatment, too. What, no My Little Pony? Just give them time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All signs point to yes. That&#8217;s the answer when the question is: Will Hollywood continue to raid the toy chest for ideas? The latest in a rash of toy-to-movie deals comes from Paramount, which has optioned Mattel&#8217;s Magic 8 Ball for a live-action feature, according to Deadline.com. The studio has already had a money-gushing run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32Mq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}