LOS ANGELES — “Battleship” steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is sea-worthy. The Hasbro Inc.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – ‘Battleship,’ the first in a string of movies based on Hasbro board games, has survived an armada of tomato-throwing critics and chugged to $170 million in ticket sales overseas.

Variety.com reported that Universal Studios set a July, 2011 release date for a movie based on the board game "Battleship". Universal, no doubt, chose this "summer blockbuster" release date to mirror ...

What happens when you take a beloved board game and give it the Hollywood treatment to a point beyond all recognition? You get the 2012 adaptation of Battleship. When ...

Based on a board game that became popular precisely for its prosaic, binary nature (hit/miss), one would expect a feature-length Battleship to be a decidedly one-note affair. But a funny thing ...

"What's the difference between a battleship and a destroyer?" asks a starstruck boy upon meeting a U.S. Navy hero-to-be in Battleship. The smart answer would be "one peg hole" since everyone knows the ...

LOS ANGELES — “Battleship” steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is seaworthy. The Hasbro search-and ...

"Battleship" steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is sea-worthy. The Hasbro Inc. search-and-destroy ...