Entertainment One’s subsidiary eOne Music is in talks to produce music for Hasbro based properties as a part of their new venture.

Speaking to the Billboard magazine, eOne Music’s Global President Chris Taylor stated that a group of eOne executives met with Hasbro management and presented a portfolio of music assets, from music supervision and soundtrack production to synch licensing and a production music library.

“It’s our job to familiarize ourselves with Hasbro’s brands, starting with Dungeons & Dragons to Magic: The Gathering to Transformers to Monopoly — what a job!”

Billboard asked “At this point, has eOne been tapped for any of Hasbro’s movie franchises, like Transformers or G.I. Joe?” and Mr. Taylor answered “We’re in discussions across the board with respect to music needs.”, but confirmed that the company is already working on song and composer ideas for the feature-length CGI-animated My Little Pony movie (2021) and has spoken to Wizards of the Coast Dungeons & Dragons team about their music needs for trailers and commercials, in addition to assisting Hasbro’s own commercial department (Cakemix Studio) to produce music for 150 commercials they put out each year.

CinemaCon 2020 has been canceled due to concerns surrounding the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Paramount Pictures was scheduled to showcase brand new trailers and footage from their 2020 lineup of movies which may have included Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins.

“It is with great regret we are announcing the cancellation of CinemaCon 2020,” National Association of Theatre Owners president John Fithian and CinemaCon organizer Mitch Neuhauser said Wednesday in a joint statement.

“Each spring, motion picture exhibitors, distributors and industry partners from around the world meet in Las Vegas to share information and celebrate the moviegoing experience. This year, due to the travel ban from the European Union, the unique travel difficulties in many other areas of the world and other challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic, a significant portion of the worldwide motion picture community is not able to attend CinemaCon,” the statement continued.

Though CinemaCon trailers aren’t usually shown to the public, the journalists who receive the opportunity to see the trailers can describe them in their articles; which is the case with Paramount Pictures. It is indeed sad to miss the opportunity to read about our most anticipated trailer.

Stay safe, everybody.

Hollywood rumor site We Got This Covered has posted an interesting info regarding our long time will happen, might happen, won’t happen movie; G.I. Joe: Ever Vigilant.

According to the site, actor Mark Wahlberg is in talks to play the role of Conrad “Duke” Hauser for the movie. The role was previously played by Channing Tatum on G.I. Joe: Rise Of Cobra and G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

However, we wonder whether the site got their Joes mixed up since Mr. Wahlberg is set to play Joe Bell on the upcoming biopic ‘Good Joe Bell’.

Nevertheless, Mark Wahlberg is no stranger to action movies and army movies. He is most notable for his role on Lone Survivor and has starred in Hasbro-Paramount hit movies series Transformers.

Only time can tell.

Hasbro has submitted their annual report to United States Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC Filing) and has highlighted the impact of the current epidemic of the COVID-19 with regards to their business.

“The coronavirus outbreak continues to be fluid and uncertain, making it difficult to forecast the final impact it could have on our future operations. If our business experiences prolonged occurrence of adverse public health conditions, such as the coronavirus, we believe our business could be substantially harmed.”

“Given that our toy manufacturing is conducted by third-party manufacturers, the majority of whom are located in China, health conditions, such as the coronavirus, and other factors affecting social and economic activity in China and affecting the movement of people and products into and from China to our major markets, including North America and Europe, as well as increases in the costs of labor and other costs of doing business in China, could have a significant negative impact on our operations, revenues and earnings.”

But on a positive note, Hasbro stated the importance of their acquisition of Entertainment One (eOne) and what they are planning to do with the new resource. The company did not forget to mention their long time partner, Paramount Pictures; whose agreement will come to an end in 2022, unless extended. You can read about it after the jump and check out the original report, for more info.

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Several German entertainment website are reporting that composer Martin Todsharow has been selected to provide the background score for Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins.

It was a likely choice since Mr. Todsharow previously worked with director Robert Schwentke and such Director-Composer relationships are most common in Hollywood. Steve Jablonsky is associated with Michael Bay (Transformers 1 -5) while Dario Marianelli teamed up with his Laika director Travis Knight for Transformers: Bumblebee.

The composer has traveled to Japan with the cast and crew to study traditional Japanese music for the movie.

Born in Berlin, Martin Todsharow was a student at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music, where his degree was in piano, counterpoint, and composition.

His most notable work includes the music from ‘The Captain’ and ‘Desert Flower’.

We are yet to hear an official word from Paramount Pictures.

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That’s a wrap!

Actor Henry Golding is sending fans a message stating that Snakes Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins has wrapped its principal photography.

“…and THAT, is a principal wrap on Snake Eyes lady’s and gents ?????? What a crew we had, Vancouver + Japan, you were unstoppable. Thank you for the dedication, this film is going to blow everyone’s socks off x”

With filming concluded, the immediate future will bring us the news of the movie’s trailer; which was already showcased to the investors of Hasbro during their annual Toy Fair preview. General public is yet to see the new footage which was described as ‘unfinished’ during the time of display. As we reported earlier, first public viewing may take place during CinemaCon 2020. Journalists usually receive the opportunity to post a description of the trailer.

It is unclear if reshoots will take place, but Paramount may take a leaf out of their Bumblebee book and incorporate public/fan feedback following a secret viewing of the edited movie. But if the audience is pleased, it’s a straight road all the way.

Speaking of which, we are yet to hear about the composer of Snake Eyes.

Snakes Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is planned to hit theaters on October 23rd, 2020.