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The King of the Monsters is about to become the king of game night as Godzilla is getting his very own versions of Monopoly and Jenga. USAopoly, aka The Op, has revealed that they have partnered with Toho to bring these tabletop classics to life with a little bit of kaiju flare. Both games are set to arrive later this year in the spring, but no firm release date has been set quite yet.

Box art for both of the games has been revealed as well. Monopoly: Godzilla, features the iconic monster at the center of the packaging, with a devastated city smoldering in the background. Jenga: Godzilla Extreme Edition also features the big guy, who is unleashing his wrath on a building. In this case, the tower that players will be removing bricks from. John M. Davis, The Op's President and CEO, had this to say about the new games.

Though it’s likely to undergo a name change closer to the time – so as to avoid a clash with Crackle’s new drama – Start Up is Zach Braff’s new comedy series that has now found a home at ABC.

Deadline has the scoop, confirming that the Garden State and Wish I Was Here will direct and star in Start Up, a project that will herald a reunion between Braff and Scrubs co-executive producer Matt Tarses. Indeed, it was Tarses who hatched the script, one based on Alex Blumberg and Lisa Chow’s titular podcast about the “human side of business.”

Braff, meanwhile, is due to make his long overdue return to serialized content, headlining Start Up as an Average Joe in “his mid-30s with a wife and two kids makes the crazy decision to quit his good job and dive into the brave new world of starting a business.

In her new book Rachel Cooke re-examines the 1950s through 10 women who pioneered in their careers. In this extract she tells the stories of sisters-in-law Muriel and Betty Box, two prominent women in the British film industry

Until recently, anyone who wanted to see the film To Dorothy a Son had to lock themselves deep in the bowels of the British Film Institute off Tottenham Court Road, London, and watch it on an old Steenbeck editing machine. A little-known comedy from 1954, To Dorothy is no one's idea of a classic. It has an infuriating star in Shelley Winters, a creaky screenplay by Peter Rogers (later the producer of the Carry On series) and a set that looks as if it is on loan from a local amateur dramatics society.

We are in the home of Tony (John Gregson) and his baby-faced wife, Dorothy (Peggy Cummins). Dorothy is heavily pregnant, and confined to bed.

I’m sure Nicole Kidman would like to get a few projects out there in the very near future, if only to let the specter of Trespass fade into obscurity. If Deadline is correct, one of the films that can help us forget the Joel Schumacher travesty is The Family Fang — as they tell us, the actress has bought the rights to and will star in an adaptation of Kevin Wilson‘s novel. She’ll also produce with Per Saari through their Blossom Films, putting the two back in business with Rabbit Hole co-producers Olympus Films.

Wilson‘s book centers on “performance artists who routinely sucked their kids into taking part in a variety of bizarre events.” After “the full grown children return home in a state of crisis, they are unwittingly enlisted to help in the execution of a daring and mysterious final performance by their parents, who are...