Sep 8, 2010

Basically, movie studios are interested in taking the existing, though under-developed, Video On Demand infrastructure that exists on most cable and satellite providers, unifying it and beefing it up.

Jun 18, 2010

Here is what our staff chose as the top 5 "Dad" movies that move you to tears -- or laughter!

Jun 18, 2010

We give dad props this Sunday, but some dads really need therapy! Here are a few T.V. dads that make us laugh (or cringe) at their dysfunction!

Shawn Levy is set to produce the children’s book, The Berestain Bears. The Berestain Bears is a series of books whose subject matters deal with real life childhood issues, character building and education. The books are generally stage one readers and are usually part of building a child’s first library. The books creators Stan and Jan Berenstain...

Oct 19, 2009

To celebrate the Solar System Premiere of Columbia Pictures‘ new animated comedy Planet 51, which will be released in theaters on Earth November 20, 2009, the film is currently orbiting the planet on the International Space Station! The film was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on August 28, 2009, and was transferred to the space...

Oct 13, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife While tales of monsters might typically frighten children, the story of a boy in a wolf suit among yellow-eyed creatures continues to be a classic children’s book, now adapted into a movie. Kansas State University‘s Philip Nel, children’s literature expert and professor of English, said Maurice...

Oct 9, 2009

Corbin Bleu via last.fm “Free Style” stars Corbin Bleu (best known from Disney’s “High School Musical” series of movies) as Cale Bryant, in an inspirational and uplifting story for the entire family about a young man’s determination to win a coveted spot on the Grand National motocross racing team. With the support of his loving...

Oct 7, 2009

When our son was just old enough to start watching videos (about 3 years old) my husband went out and bought old episodes of the Electric Company. While we watched with him, we laughed at the old skits, the retro clothes and some of the dances. While we laughed we also remembered and marveled at how much impact this show had on us as kids being raised in the...

Oct 1, 2009

Kevin Clash will be working with the first lady again. Well his voice will anyway! First Lady Michelle Obama will be talking to our children about growing healthy foods in the first episode of its 40th anniversary series. First Lady Michelle Obama is using the popular platform to spread the news about proper nutrition to America’s children. As you know...

Oct 1, 2009

By: Shelley Gabert Last week NAACP Executive Director Vic Bulluck critized the Emmy Awards presentation on CBS for its lack of “people of color,” both as presenters — only three out of 39 total presenters represented a minority — and in content, challenging the networks for having a lack of vision. While it remains to be seen if the President...

By Alice Fuller Set in Los Angeles,”The Greatest Song”, is a romantic story of how seeming opposites attract. Rucker portrays “wordly” music producer, Trent Major, and the film’s screenwriter and actress, Aida Rodriguez portrays Salma Munoz, a nice “church” girl. Throwing them together is a church choir competition and...

Sep 23, 2009

Dwayne Johnson’s voice will be staring in the animated film Planet 51 to be released this November. In this film you and your children will get to experience what it’s like when WE are the aliens! Dwayne Johnson is the lead voice, Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker. This is the first animation project for Johnson. Sphere: Related...

Sep 19, 2009

A lover of children’s books, I’m always happy to see an adaptation, I’m always curious to see how an animation team is going to pull it off. To take a beloved story, that is read again and again at bedtime and bring it to the big screen is so much fun! While reading Cloudy it’s fun to imagine all of our favorite foods simply falling...

Sep 18, 2009

You watched the show religiously, You had the album, and now you can win an official autographed poster by the cast and the director of Fame! Simply send us a YouTube link of yourself quoting the infamous Debbie Allen intro ” You want fame? Well fame cost…and right here is where you start paying in sweat!” The most creative wins the poster...

Sep 15, 2009

We are sponsoring our first Girls Night Out this weekend and wanted to get your opinion on what movie to watch!

Aug 18, 2009

A thrilling tale of a true hero, “Astro Boy” is an all-new, feature film full of action, adventure, humor and heart. It will be brought to life on the big screen in breathtaking CGI animation on October 23rd, 2009. Set in futuristic Metro City, “Astro Boy” is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist...

Jul 15, 2009

This actually caught us off guard. For a non-Pixar animated film, this may be good! Studios are trying to get back to Saturday afternoon movies with evil geniuses and light sci-fi themes, and they seem bent on using animation to do it. Somebody will get it right sooner or later. Maybe just take it easy on the preachy-preachy? Here’s the plot of...

USA Today has some brand new pics of Dev Patel and Noah RInger in the big screen adaptation of The film is based on the popular Nickelodeon animated series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” in which human civilization is divided into four nations: the Air Nomads, the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation. Ringer will play Aang, the last known...

May 11, 2009

Check out the first full trailer from Disney for their new movie, “The Princess & the Frog”, due in theaters everywhere in time for Christmas 2009. It’s a remake, yes. And a bit of a re-imaging. It’s a fairy tale centered on a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans’ French Quarter during the Jazz Age. ...

May 4, 2009

You’ve seen red carpet premieres before award shows, and maybe you’ve seen red carpet before big premieres on TV. So what would make a premiere for a movie like “Star Trek” stand out in LA, where we’ve seen it all? A big ol’ Federation symbol and a BLACK carpet, of course! While everybody else will first experience...

The film tells the story of Senn (Justin Long) and Mala (Evan Rachel Wood), two rebellious alien teens living on the beautiful planet Terra, a place that promotes peace and tolerance, having long ago rejected war and weapons of mass destruction. But when Terra is invaded by human beings fleeing a civil war and environmental catastrophe, the planet is plunged...

Apr 8, 2009

NEW YORK – She has performed at the Academy Awards and the 2009 presidential inaugural ball. She’s won multiple Grammys, headlined world tours, sold millions of albums and starred in hit blockbuster movies. Now internationally acclaimed superstar Beyoncé Knowles makes her debut as a voiceover actress on Nickelodeon’s Emmy Award-winning animated...

Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world — a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. Cast: Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, and Forest...

Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies’ present the family comedy “Imagine That”. Eddie Murphy stars as a successful financial executive who has more time for his blackberry than his seven-year-old daughter (Yara Shahidi). When he has a crisis of confidence and his career starts going down the drain, however, he finds the solution to all his problems...