Anna Malova, Miss Russia 1998, poses on a pool table at The Campbell Apartment restaurant in Grand Central Station on November 18, 1999. She makes her motion picture debut in the movie “Above Ground”. (Photo by Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Anna Nicole Smith at boyfriend Christian Audigier's Hollywood apartment in Hollywood, CA, 1998. (Photo by Paul Harris/Hulton Archive)

Farmers harvest lotus loots in a pond on July 21, 2025 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province of China. Lotus root harvest season is in full swing in Nantong as farmers work to harvest and transport fresh lotus roots to meet market demand. (Photo by Zhai Huiyong/VCG via Getty Images)

Middlesbrough star Paul Gasgoigne is confronted by streakers at The Riverside on December 6, 1998 during their match against Newcastle. (Photo by Owen Humphreys – PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)

We have reached a time where Hollywood thinks that creating movies off of classic board games would be a good idea. This Friday Battleship the movie hits theaters.

Check out a few of movie posters for some “Battleship”–style movies based on popular board games.

A woman throws olives into a freshly-harvested pile beneath a tree, during the harvest season in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 5, 2023. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP Photo)

Donald Trump is flanked by Playmates at a party celebrating Playboy magazine's 45th anniversary at the Life Club in New York on December 3, 1998. (Photo by Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

“Federico Bebber was born in 1974 in Udine, Italy. Since 1998 he deals with digital art. He uses digital tools based on photography. His creative process usually takes place slowly and at night”. Photo: “Remember”. (Photo by Federico Bebber)