Some blockbusters are just too big to be replicated. This is how Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park scored the monopoly on dinosaur movies.

If there's one fun, friends-and-family pastime that's sure to drive a temporary wedge between even the best of pals, it's Hasbro's Monopoly. The brutal banking-and-buying game that sees players attempting to out-earn, out-bid, and outlast their competitors may be marketed as teaching basic math and money-management skills, but it's also infamous for pointing out your family members' particular corporate sins. (Dad gets sticky fingers when he's the banker, and your brother always hides an extra Benjamin under the board when he thinks no one is looking.) So …

Ben Affleck confirms his McDonald's Monopoly movie, starring Matt Damon, is still in development following the Disney-Fox merger.

Are you one of the many understandably obsessed with HBO's McMillions, the true-crime doc about the man who defrauded the McDonald's Monopoly game for millions of dollars? Then you might recall that, at one point, Ben Affleck was set to direct Matt Damon in a film based on the same story for 20th Century Fox, tentatively titled McScam. Now, a lot has changed since 2018; Affleck is in a completely different place professionally and 20th Century Fox has re-branded underneath the Disney umbrella. So where does that leave McScam? I asked Affleck when we sat down …

HBO's McMillions explores the McDonalds Monopoly Jerome Jacobson con. But what happened to McScam, the Ben Affleck film covering the same true story?

A new trailer is released for McMillions, the six-part HBO documentary series which explores the $24 million-dollar McDonald’s Monopoly game fraud.

HBO has released the full trailer for their six-part documentary series McMillions. The series, directed by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, follows the McDonald's Monopoly scandal. For those of you who have never heard about it, basically for years and years, McDonald's ran an annual promotion related to Monopoly. You'd buy certain items and those items would have game pieces. If you got a "monopoly" or an instant win piece, you could win some very big prizes like $1 million or a new car. Most people ended up winning free french fries or a free …

Monopoly works fine on mobile devices in single-player mode, but everything else it includes seems to be either glitchy or downright frustrating.

HBO has released the teaser trailer for their upcoming docuseries McMillions. The six-part series explores how a security auditor was able to rig and defraud McDonalds’ popular Monopoly game and created a criminal empire of people winning cash and expensive prizes. It’s a wild story (you can click over to The Daily Beast to read the full thing) and while Ben Affleck is signed on to direct a movie based on the events starring Matt Damon, that could be stuck in development hell for a while. Thankfully, this documentary already looks plenty entertaining. It’s the kind of …

In case anyone was wondering, Disney is fully aware they control a staggering portion of the world’s entertainment, and they don’t really seem to care who knows it. At least, that’s 100% the vibe given off by Walt Disney Studios co-chairman and chief creative officer Alan Horn at the Variety Business Managers Breakfast at the Montage Beverly Hills on Wednesday. During the program, Horn acknowledged that Disney has a stranglehold on the entertainment industry the same way LeBron James might respond to someone accusing him of being unfairly good at basketball. “We do have an outsized …

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Themed board games crowd the shelves these days with their zombie-kicking, ninja turtle-loving selves and Monopoly is no exception. Aggressively driving your friends into financial wreck has never been more individualized. With Kevin Hart set to star in an upcoming movie centred around the classic board game, get up to speed now on the wildest versions you can buy.