The company has signed a deal with Emmett/Furla, a prolific production banner run by co-founders Randall Emmett and George Furla, to finance and co-produce three movies in the next two years.
The titles include Monopoly, the real estate board game; Action Man, a British version of Hasbro’s toy soldier line, G.I. Joe; and — we’re not kidding —Hungry Hungry Hippos, a game in which players try to collect marbles by “eating” them via their mouth-opening hippos.
You will excuse me while I reel my jaw up off the floor…
Hang on, still trying to make sense of it all…
Nope, sense cannot be…
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