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Rihanna's Battleship May Be Sinking
Posted on Fri Aug 13, 2010 02:12 PM PDT
Rihanna is just weeks away from beginning to film her first major motion picture, Battleship, but with the film's massive $200 million budget, Universal may be having second thoughts.
The action movie, based on Hasbro's board game, will be directed by Peter Berg. As far as the cast ... Rihanna, Taylor Kitsch and Alexander Skarsgard are linked with the project that begins shooting in Hawaii at the end of this month.
With Comcast finalizing their deal with NBC Universal, execs are handling the production cautiously ... especially since the studio, who have a reputation for overblown budgets, has not recently had a major hit with the exception of Despicable Me. Some studio insiders fear that Battleship could follow in the footsteps of the ill-fated Waterworld.
Universal chairman Adam Fogelson tells THR, "It's a big bet like many, many big bets from many studios. We will be nowhere near the high point and nowhere near the low point of what people are spending."
One promising aspect ... the Hasbro board game Battleship has brought in more than $1 billion in revenue and has sold more than 100 million units.
Will plans for this $200 million flick stay afloat? For RiRi's sake, we hope so.
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Comments
You sunk my battleship hah
the movie is gonna suck badd
This movie and the concept for it just sound stupid.
Her hair looks like hell! She looks like Woody Woodpecker.
rihanna is a nig*er
I know that I, along with hundreds of co-workers, friends and family, would NEVER waste money to see her on the screen. The premise sounds really stupid and it sounds like a straight to DVD junker in the $3 bin.
.........they have LIFE-JACKETS aboard?
Will not be seeing this crap or anything with her in it! Now if it was Angelina Jolie I would c it regardless if was a bad movie!
well if they include rihanna all her fans will be running in the theater to see it. so they should keep her and know her fans will increase the ticket sales. and also true blood fans will be runnin in casue of the guy in it so they should keep the idea.
not enough rhianna and true blood fans to make up for a 200 million dollar budget...sink this ship fast