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"Universal has decided not to move forward with the planned adaptation of Hasbro&amp;#039;s Ouija board game.  The studio passed on the project due to budgetary constraints, with the film being deemed too expensive for the company at its present price, New York Magazine reports.  However, producers on the project, which signed McG as a director in January, will shop the film around to other studios, including Paramount.  In spite of the move, Universal and Hasbro will continue their collaboration on a number of other projects, such as the big-screen adaptations of Candyland and Stretch Armstrong. In addition, the company&amp;#039;s joint project Battleship will open in UK cinemas on April 20, 2012 and the US on May 18, 2012. Tron Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz were hired to pen the script for Ouija in late 2009.  Watch the trailer for Battleship below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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