{"id":33831,"date":"2025-05-21T08:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33831"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:31:17","slug":"ive-already-seen-caddyshack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/21\/ive-already-seen-caddyshack\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Already Seen <em>Caddyshack<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/mattel-tristar-to-develop-film-based-on-whac-a-mole\/\" target=\"_new\">Mattel, TriStar to Develop Film Based on Whac-a-Mole<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With films based on \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d and Matchbox toy cars already in development, Mattel Films is adding a live-action\/animated hybrid movie based on the classic game Whac-a-Mole to their production slate with TriStar as its partner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhac-A-Mole is more than a game \u2014 it\u2019s a laugh-out-loud battle of reflexes that has brought joy and a little chaos to families for five decades. We\u2019re beyond excited to team up with TriStar Pictures to turn the iconic experience into a wild, action-packed ride for the big screen,\u201d Mattel Films president Robbie Brenner said.<\/p>\n<p>Whac-a-Mole was first created as an arcade game by the Japanese company TOGO in 1975, challenging players to hit toy moles that popped out of a series of holes with a soft mallet before they fell back down. The game became a cultural touchstone, often used to refer to futile tasks. Mattel acquired the trademark to the game in 2008 and has released a home version with moles that light up instead of popping out of holes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I used to joke about making movie treatments for board games and candies.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not joking any more.<\/p>\n<p>So, what will the inevitable PETA protests add to the bottom line?  Or will animal rights kinetic activists derail production?  Time will tell, but I will probably miss the story and the movie.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via the <em>Springfield Business Journal<\/em>&#8216;s morning <a href=\"https:\/\/sbj.net\/stories\/mattel-tristar-announce-whac-a-mole-movie,99787\" target=\"_new\">Today in Business<\/a> email newsletter.  Which, strangely enough, is the only email newsletter I read, and I&#8217;ve not been a subscriber to the paper version for probably ten years.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattel, TriStar to Develop Film Based on Whac-a-Mole: With films based on \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d and Matchbox toy cars already in development, Mattel Films is adding a live-action\/animated hybrid movie based on the classic game Whac-a-Mole to their production slate with TriStar as its partner. \u201cWhac-A-Mole is more than a game \u2014 it\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33832,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831\/revisions\/33832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}