The Monopoly film could eventually move go. (It’ll certainly attempt to accumulate greater than $200.)

Lengthy mentioned as a Hasbro toy that might doubtlessly make an inexpensive foundation for a film, the Monopoly movie is featured prominently within the information this week as a part of the sale of the leisure studio eOne from toy firm Hasbro to the movie firm Lionsgate.

Within the press launch, Lionsgate touts that they “will purchase a library that features titles reminiscent of 1917, Atomic Blonde, Inexperienced E-book, Gray’s Anatomy, Felony Minds, Renegade and Designated Survivor.” And it additionally notes “As a part of the settlement, Lionsgate additionally will purchase movie improvement rights to Hasbro’s Monopoly, based mostly on the wildly well-liked board recreation.”

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The Monopoly recreation was first printed within the Nineteen Thirties by Parker Brothers (now owned by Hasbro), and has remained a staple of household leisure for almost 100 years. The unique recreation makes use of a board based mostly on places in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey, however via the years numerous themed variations have been made. (And numerous households have been torn asunder by gamers who pressured their family members out of business by devious and underhanded Monopoly ways.)

Right here was Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer’s touch upon the information:

The acquisition of eOne checks off all of the bins in areas that play to our core strengths. Will probably be instantly and extremely accretive, provides a world-class library with 1000’s of properties, strengthens our scripted and unscripted tv enterprise and continues to develop our presence in Canada and the UK.  The deal is the end result of our long-standing relationship with the immensely gifted group at eOne, and it continues to construct our place as one of many world’s main impartial content material platforms with a stockpile of nice mental properties and a novel, non-replicable portfolio of belongings.

The final time we heard something important a couple of Monopoly movie was early 2019, when it was reported that Kevin Hart was in talks to star within the mission. No phrase but if Hart continues to be connected. And naturally this renewed hyped a couple of potential Monopoly film comes as Barbie is on observe to gross greater than $1 billion on the field workplace.