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Thanks to your terrific support we keep unlocking stretch goals! New stretch goal – Dance Choreographer – is now unlocked! Dance Choreographer can earn you several millions if you use him right. He adds 1 million for each coin symbol on your... (Read More)

The art is ready for 2 more cards of The Other Side of Hollywood add-on! A quick info for those of you who just joined us: Art House Actor and Art House Actress cards are a part of The Other Side of Hollywood add-on. Read more about it at the end of... (Read More)

These are the final days and our campaign progress is accelerating! Thanks to all of you for backing and spreading the word about Hollywood! Every effort helps! We have less than $10,000 to reach in remaining 2 days. Getting to $45,000 to unlock... (Read More)

We now have Brazilian Portuguese rules available for download! We are very grateful to one of our backers - Paulo Ricardo Correia da Silva for preparing this translation. Please download Brazilian Portuguese rules by clicking the picture below:... (Read More)

Today’s interview is with Nikolay Pegasov designer of Hollywood: Make Your Own Blockbuster which is on Kickstarter now! Hollywood Box IsometricGive us an overview of your game and how it's played. Hollywood is a fast family game with simultaneous moves. It's based on a combination of card draft, auction, and set collection mechanics. A set of cards which you collect is your blockbuster. A blockbuster contains 3-9 cards. (Read More)

We are now entering the final days of Hollywood campaign with only 3 days to go!  We'd like to quote one of our great backers, J-F Audy on current situation: "We are so close to the next stretch goal! If we can get to 35K before the 48 hours... (Read More)

¡Bienvenidos a Hollywood! — ¡donde se cumplen sueños y nacen estrellas! ¿Alguna vez deseaste poder rodar la película perfecta? “Hollywood: Make Your Own Blockbuster” te permite recrear esa fantasía. (Read More)

We passed another milestone. Hollywood is funded at $30,000! Your support does have a very noticeable effect. We still have a way to $45,000 but now we have much better chances to get there. It’s possible if you spread the word about Hollywood... (Read More)

Before we move to Actor/Actress, we want to say a few words about Festival Madness. As we already wrote, a whole new Festival Deck is coming to Hollywood as a stretch goal at $45k! We have announced Festival Madness stretch goal just a few hours ago... (Read More)

We interrupt this broadcast to bring you an important message! Festival Madness is upon us! With this ultimate stretch goal we want to bring the most requested features: events and festivals. Idea for this deck appeared after we read your comments.... (Read More)

This is a short update with excellent news for our Spanish speaking backers. Rules of Hollywood were translated to Spanish language by Miguel Viñas. We’ve added the link to our Kickstarter page and you can also download the PDF file with Hollywood... (Read More)

Another strong Star card is added to Hollywood! Actor/Actress stretch goal is unlocked! What’s the deal with the question mark? As you may know, we’ve decided to change the art for Actor/Actress after we've listened to your feedback. We had some... (Read More)

We have some cool new art ready to show you! The art for Controversial Director and Producer’s Girlfriend is done. Our artist was inspired by your great ideas. John GT and Don Riddle: leopard print that you asked for is in the game! Both of these... (Read More)

We have a new Star card in Hollywood – Director of Photography! As you may know, the idea for this card was suggested by you – Hollywood’s backers. It is possible that we will do other stretch goal cards based on backers’ feedback. We already... (Read More)

A quick heads up about today's event. You have a lot of great ideas and suggestions. Here is the most fun way to communicate with Hollywood's author directly and live! Nikolay Pegasov, author of Hollywood will do AMA on Reddit today, June 4th.  This... (Read More)

We keep unlocking stretch goal cards! Please welcome the Singer! Singer’s effect is simple but powerful: all your coins on cards count as award symbols as well! Coin values don't matter, you just count all coin symbols on your cards. For example,... (Read More)

We have a lot of exciting news for you today! Method Acting Teacher unlocked! It’s never too late to learn! Method Acting Teacher stretch goal is unlocked! Method Acting Teacher is a powerful card that can help you to get huge box office. If you... (Read More)

Hollywood is a board game by Russian designer Nikolay Pegasov. The game has done very well and is now expanding with an international version. (Read More)

We have already unlocked a lot of stretch goals and added 14 cards to the base game. We are grateful to all of you for support and great ideas! Some of your suggestions are already being implemented and worked on.   Now, as we have promised, we are... (Read More)

I check out the game Hollywood by (The Executives) at Hobby World. Think you've got the prowess for making movies? Think you can draw cards and arrange them in a preset pattern? Think you can perform simple addition? Well, then good for you! That's the first step to recovery. But what really matters is what I think, doesn't it? NO?!?! Ok, well, then you'll never know whether this game's a-walkin' down the red carpet, or goin' straight to your local VHS bargain bin! Oh, and you're a poopy-head too! (Read More)

I check out the game Hollywood by (The Executives) at Hobby World. Ever dreamed of making your own movie? Ever dreamed that the movie you did make never got shown to anyone, and that your dignity was still in tact? Ever wanted a crack at being the mastermind behind this summer's blockbuster hit? Well, I can help you with one of those issues for sure. I can explain how to put cards in a certain order so that you have everything for a make-believe movie! And isn't make-believe what movies are all about anyways? Sure they are . . . sure they are. (Read More)

Now we are talking! Lawyers are unleashed, uh, we mean unlocked. Hollywood is becoming much more intense! The Lawyer must be played at a special game phase (Production Stage), named “Crew Activites”. It’s just before everyone begins to lay out... (Read More)

Woot! We keep knocking down stretch goals! Actor-Director is unlocked! That did not take too long! Actor-Director is now added to every Kickstarter edition copy of Hollywood. Actor/Director is a star card and… Well, he comes right after... (Read More)

We have a look at the rule book of Hollywood: Make Your Own Blockbuster to see what the game has to offer. (Read More)

A fresh new stretch goal is now unlocked! Actress-Director joins Hollywood movie-making team! With this unlocked stretch goal, we are adding two different Actress/Director cards (same art but different card properties). Actress/Director is a Star... (Read More)

With this update, we are introducing new pledge level: MOVIE LEGEND. Some of you asked us for it! At this pledge level our artist will draw a card with your likeness. Now you can become one of Hollywood’s best! Every copy of Hollywood will have a... (Read More)

Hollywood continues to grow! We have just unlocked the first “classic” stretch goal – Second Unit Director (first overall unlocked stretch goal was lovely PR Specialist). SECOND UNIT DIRECTOR: UNLOCKED! Second Unit Directors will help you to... (Read More)

Last year, we shared a review on World of Tanks, from Hobby World. It was an exciting and unique deck building game that we still are enjoying getting to the table. Today, Hobby World is enjoying success with a new type of card game, Hollywood! (Read More)

Hi movie fans! In our first update we linked a great video review by Tox. Do you like it? It does a good job of showing Hollywood’s game mechanics and is very detailed.  Now Tox posted his review on BoardGameGeek. Please thumb it up if you find... (Read More)

Our funding goal is reached. Now is the perfect time to spread the word about Hollywood across Kickstarter! Star actors and actresses are playing their best roles in front of cameras; best directors are shooting movies of their dreams. Hollywood... (Read More)

It’s happening! International edition of Hollywood will become real!  Thank you for your trust in our game. We will do everything (and more!) to make sure that Hollywood lives to your expectations. We’d like to thank the board gaming community... (Read More)

Are you done waiting for the new Star Wars movie? Do you feel you have it in you to make a sequel to the Matrix? Do you think you can do a better job than placing Harrison Ford in a flying refrigerator during a nuclear explosion? (Read More)

Unbelievable!!! Social Stretch Goal is unlocked in just one day after Hollywood was launched on Kickstarter and just in 4 hours after we’ve asked you to help our cute PR Specialist! Your efforts made it happen. You guys are great! Thank you! PR... (Read More)

Hi everyone! First and foremost we would like to thank all of you for the amazing support of Hollywood! Less than 24 hours have passed and we are already getting very close to the funding goal. We hope that Hollywood will cross that mark very soon... (Read More)

Time for the monthly Kickstarter roundup! May brings us several new card games, as well as the first in a new line from an established gaming company (North Star Games). A popular game from Russia is seeking an English release, and a new racing game mixes things up with a map-building mechanic. (Read More)

Hobby World is a newer publisher that is bringing Russian designed games to the American market. Previously, the Opinionated Gamers have looked at a few of their other games including Desktopia and Septikon. Thus far, while some of these games haven’t been particularly my style – I have found them to be well produced and professionally done. (Read More)