Universal Catches 'asteroids'

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Thu, 07/02/2009 - 1:12pm

Film News: Studio wins feature rights to Atari videogame -- Universal's won the bidding for feature rights to the vintage Atari vidgame "Asteroids" and set up the project with Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

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