Have you ever played Battleship? It’s a classic board game. You and an opponent take on the roles of two rival naval admirals in what appears to be roughly World War II-era combat. You take turns ...

The first clip from Battleship has gone online. If you didn't know a Battleship movie existed, and I told you this clip came from a Transformers spin-off, you would believe me. It's sad how much ...

Universal is really moving at very high speed on this Battleship movie. Maybe because it's one of the few projects in-development that they think they can make money on? First things first, yep, the ...

Peter Berg has earned a reputation as a bit of a brash filmmaker. He's outspoken, he's opinionated, and when pushed he's proven he isn't afraid to push back. He's the kind of man's man who, one gets ...

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 ...

Mainstream big-screen filmmaking is in a weird, risk-averse rut right now. As detailed in Mark Harris' 2011 GQ essay and elsewhere, studios are now building their major releases almost exclusively ...

It doesn’t get any dumber than this. "Battleship" exhibits many of Hollywood's worst traits: It's bloated, silly, exploitative and sometimes casually racist. It underestimates the audience's ...

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 ...