Hasbro News

When Brian Goldner arrived at Hasbro in 2000 as chief executive, the toy and game maker generated $30 million from its Transformers action figures.

Whether looking for a great 2009 Christmas present or scouting out a company to invest in: Think Hasbro.

The new TRANSFORMERS comics era has begun! After just one day in stores, The TRANSFORMERS #1 is already sold out through Diamond, and IDW Publishing will rush its inaugural ongoing comic to a second printing.

" On the eve of one of the biggest shopping days of the year, Hasbro Inc. is under fire from consumer watchdog groups who say two of the company's products are unsafe.

I just got a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Present, and boy, was he mad. A hot toy is threatening to dash toymakers' hopes this season, leaving nothing but coal in their shareholders' stockings.

An "excessively loud" triceratops and an Elmo lunch bag with "potentially toxic" chemicals were among the items listed in the U.S. Public Interest Research Group's 2009 list of dangerous toys released Tuesday.

With the holiday shopping season about to boost into overdrive later this week, I decided to get an early read on the hottest toy trends at Amazon.com . Regardless of your thoughts on Amazon's valuation -- lofty on an earnings basis but much more reasonable on a free cash flow scale -- the leading online retailer is a great resource for taking the ...

The local Children's Holiday Hope Fund begins its fifth holiday-giving campaign Sunday and asks the public to make monetary donations toward hats and mittens for Rhode Island children in need.

" Gov. Donald L. Carcieri signed legislation Thursday that reconstitutes the R.I. Economic Development Corporation's board and provides the next agency's executive director with a three-year term.

A search committee has recommended planning veteran Ioanna T. Morfessis to lead the state's ailing Economic Development Corporation, an agency that could play a key role in getting Rhode Islanders back to work.

The TRANSFORMERS action just keeps coming, as IDW introduces a third new series in January - TRANSFORMERS: Last Stand of the WRECKERS.

Procrastinators may have an even harder time this holiday season. Retailers worried about getting stuck with too much inventory may not have ordered enough toys.

Loading ... Over 14 million children live in poverty in the United States. They need a hero this holiday season and here to answer the call of duty is the G.I. JOE brand from Hasbro, Inc.

A- Shares of toy maker Hasbro Inc. rose on Monday, after an analyst said the company has strong product cycle coming up in 2011 and upgraded the stock.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the rights to produce a movie based on Hasbro's classic strategy boardgame Risk, offering the delicious possibility that the company might follow it up with Ludo: The Motion Picture and Mahjong: Tiles of Destiny .

Sony Pictures has acquired the motion picture rights to classic board game "Risk," which was invented in 1957 by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse as "La Conquete du Monde" . Two years later, in 1959, Parker Brothers published the game we all came to know as "Risk." "Risk" was unique because it introduced groundbreaking game concepts.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired from Hasbro, Inc. the motion picture rights to produce RISK, the classic board game brand of world conquest, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures.

JUNO BEACH, Fla.-- --Florida Power & Light Company customers will be getting a sizeable rebate on their first bills of 2010 with a one-time fuel charge credit approved by... MEXICO CITY-- --Desarrolladora Metropolitana, S.A. de C.V. ["DeMet" or the "Company") announces the release of its 2008 audited financial statements and the hosting of a co...

Universal has hired Tron Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz to pen the big screen adaptation of the board game Ouija , according to Heat Vision .

Although a selection committee has been mum on the identity of its choice for the new director of the state's Economic Development Corporation, Governor Carcieri and the group's chairman confirmed the name of one of two finalists: Ioanna T. Morfessis, of Arizona.