LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Battleship" steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is sea-worthy. The Hasbro Inc.

Battleship’s international gross of $226.8 million provides some cushion, but it needed a strong domestic performance to end up in the black. A $25.3 million opening means the movie might not clear ...

Maybe it’s too much to ask of the movie adaption of the peg-based guessing game to have a plot or make sense, after all, there wasn’t much to work with. Note to the people who make these decisions: ...

The film was at the centre of a controversy at the recently concluded IFFK, when the Central government objected to its ...