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The Berenstain Bears Go to Hollywood!

4 November 2009 9:15 PM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Oh my goodness, my inner five-year-old (who is always quite present) is absolutely giddy right now.

The last couple of months have seen screen adaptations of a couple of my favorite childhood books: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and Where the Wild Things Are. Now, another of my childhood staples is hitting the big screen.

I remember my parents reading me a different Berenstain Bears book almost every night before going to bed, complete with different voices for each of the characters and the occasional insertion of mine and my brother’s names in place of Sister Bear and Brother Bear.

Now, the beloved family of The Berenstain Bears is getting its own feature film, courtesy of Walden Media who recently acquired the movie rights to the series.

Clearly, my inner five-year-old is filled with sentimental excitement.

For those of you who happen to be unfamiliar with the series, »

- Carly

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This is Happening: A Berenstain Bears Movie

3 November 2009 11:35 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Shawn Levy, director of the Night at the Museum franchise, is embarking on something akin to making a movie out of a board game -- which is dumb (we're looking at you, Ridley Scott) -- he's producing a movie based on the popular series of children's books known as The Berenstain Bears. As you may note, The Berenstain Bears follows the story of Papa Bear, the woodworker father; Mama Bear, his homemaker wife; and their three children: Brother Bear, Sister Bear, and Honey Bear. Their stories are set in Bear Country, a society composed entirely of bears. Their story lines typically follow the Bear family as they deal with topics relevant to both children and parents. They appears in a 1985 TV series of the same name, as well as another series that ran on PBS in 2003-2004. Personally, I was not aware that The Berenstain Bears was such a lucrative property. I »

- Neil Miller

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Berenstain Bears Headed To The Screen

2 November 2009 11:52 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Shawn Levy, he of Cheaper By The Dozen and Night at the Museum, has trained his sights upon a children's favourite series, The Berenstain Bears, and aims to turn the slight-but-sweet stories of a family of bears into a new film. Levy will produce but there's no word yet on whether he'll direct what's envisaged as a mix of CGI and live-action.The four bears, Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Brother Bear and Sister Bear (we're saying they might need names before the cameras roll) live in a house in a tree. In the books, they live in Bear Country surrounded by other bears, but we're not entirely clear if that's something Levy wants to keep, since he told USA Today that, "The comedy comes from this bear family coexisting in a more recognizably real world."As regards making the family work onscreen, Levy also said that, "I'd like the film »

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Extended Clips from The Princess and the Frog

6 October 2009 9:09 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

It’s not like traditional animation is dead. Brother Bear, which was released in 2003, grossed $250 million worldwide. It’s just that Disney has been releasing direct to DVD a lot of mediocre sequels to classic animated films, leaving all of the hype and the impressive theater releases to CG Pixar films. I don’t expect the situation to change much, but there’s always hope that Disney’s latest animated film, The Princess and the Frog, will touch off some kind of revival for traditional animation. Clips of the film can be seen below. Some parts are unfinished, reminding you that, yes, this was hand-drawn. It’s hard to get a read on the quality of the narrative since it follows a lot of classic Disney conventions. Either way, we should find out upon the film’s release on December 11th. »

- Jacob

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Dark Country pics

16 August 2009 6:50 PM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Can Thomas Jane be as much a badass behind cameras as he is onscreen? His movies aren't always instant classics (nor good...) but he always Is badass nonetheless. We'll find out on October 6 when his directorial debut sadly skips theaters and winds up directly on the shelves. Jane's Dark Country, from a script by Brother Bear scribe Tab Murphy (...) sees a newlywed couple's rescue of a crashed driver turn into a nightmare of the paranormal kind. How can That go straight to DVD? It's got Tom... »

- Tony Lang

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Concept Art Time: Rapunzel

11 August 2009 10:06 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

If any of you remember the part in Enchanted where the character Gisele (played by Amy Adams) sings ‘That’s How You Know’, there is one part where she appears on stage singing with a little girl in the middle of a Rapunzel play.

Yes, that was an easter egg of sorts for Disney’s next animated feature after The Princess and the Frog called Rapunzel. Making their way down the princess line, it was inevitable that Walt Disney Pictures would go to this classic fairy tale of sorts. While everyone is completely in awe over the possible rise back to Disney’s golden age with Princess & the Frog, and completely taken away by Pixar’s Toy Story 1-3 making its way into theaters between October to June of next year, Rapunzel is going almost completely unnoticed. Well that’s where I come in, showing off the concept art of »

- Melissa Molina

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The Real Star Of ‘The Hangover’ Is … Phil Collins?

8 June 2009 11:33 AM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

Over the weekend, Todd Phillips’ Las Vegas super-comedy “The Hangover” narrowly missed becoming the top movie in the country (it was edged out by crotchety animated Ed Asner and “Up”) (Update: Looks like it prevailed after all!). The movie is a fantastically hilarious trip through a bachelor party gone horribly, horribly wrong and features guest appearances by a baby, a tiger and Mike Tyson, who plays air drums along with Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” It’s yet another instance where somehow, some way, Phil Collins has been given a gold medal in the cool Olympics.

The oft-maligned Collins has had a rough time of it in the mainstream, selling millions of records but mostly getting dismissed as either “the guy who ruined Genesis” (not true) or “the guy who wrote those stupid songs for Disney’s ‘Tarzan’” (unfortunately true). But it seems like you can’t flick a »

- Kyle Anderson

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If Sigourney Won't Fight Ghosts, Alyssa Milano Will!

23 March 2009 7:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Sigourney Weaver may have started warming to the idea of more Ghostbusters back in December, but that doesn't include lending her voice for the upcoming video game. She's out, and in her absence, Atari isn't going with just anyone. They're going with the daughter of a boss who has a little witchy charm.

That's right -- Variety reports that Alyssa Milano is lending her voice in the upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Luckily, it won't be as Weaver's Dana Barrett, which would probably cause an uproar. Instead, her character is "Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn, the brainy guest curator of a 'World of Gozer' exhibit at the Natural History Museum." It seems that Milano was approached once Weaver declined to come back to the fold. I guess they were a fan of her voice in Dinotopia and Jimmy Neutron.

It sucks that Weaver isn't involved in this latest Ghostbusters incarnation, but »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Hardee’s Shifts Gears Into Wacky ‘Slotcar’ Racing Series

10 February 2009 6:46 PM, PST | Tubefilter.tv | See recent Tubefilter News news »

Animax, the entertainment studio founded by Dave Thomas (Brother Bear) and ad/production man Andrew Bain, is filling up its tank with restaurant chain Hardee's for a new web series to poke fun at new American past time – stock car auto racing. Launching this week and produced by Animax web branding unit Unplugged, the series of one- to two-minute Slotcar episodes will include highlight packages, driver biographies, controversial stories, rumors, speculation as well as parodies. "We produce each webisode only a week out from the launch date, so we are able to keep the content fresh and topical," Animax COO Tim Jones said. "If something big happens in a race on Saturday, you’re going to see it spoofed on the next Slotcar webisode." »

- Lesley Goldberg

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