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An animated adventure for all ages, with an all-star cast and original music, “Smallfoot” turns a myth upside down when a bright young yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human.

News of this “smallfoot” throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in an all new story about friendship, courage and the joy of discovery.

“Smallfoot” stars Channing Tatum as the yeti, Migo, and James Corden as the smallfoot, Percy. Also starring are Zendaya, Common, LeBron James, Danny DeVito, Gina Rodriguez, Yara Shahidi, Ely Henry, and Jimmy Tatro.

“Smallfoot” was directed by Karey Kirkpatrick, Annie Award-winning director of “Over the Hedge” and Annie nominee for the screenplays for “Chicken Run” and “James and the Giant Peach.” The screenplay was written by Kirkpatrick and Clare Sera, screen story by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Kirkpatrick,...

An animated adventure for all ages, with original music and an all-star cast, Smallfoot turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human.

Smallfoot stars Channing Tatum (“The Lego® Batman Movie,” the “Jump Street” films)

as the Yeti, Migo, and James Corden (“Trolls,” “The Emoji Movie”) as the Smallfoot, Percy.

Set to debut in theaters September 28, 2018, from Warner Bros. Pictures, watch the first trailer now.

News of this “smallfoot” brings him fame and a chance with the girl of his dreams. It also throws the simple Yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village, in a rollicking story about friendship, courage and the joy of discovery.

Also starring are Zendaya (“Spider-Man: Homecoming”), Common (“Selma”), LeBron James (upcoming “Space Jam 2”), Gina Rodriguez (“Jane the Virgin”), Danny DeVito (“The Lorax,...

We have our first trailer for Warner Animation Group’s film Smallfoot. It flips the legend of Bigfoot on its head and tells it from the other perspective. Instead of parents taking their kids camping and scaring them at night with tales of Bigfoot, yetis tell campfire stories about Smallfoot to scare their children. The trailer looks like it has potential to be a fun movie for the family and I’m excited to see more trailers so I can better gauge my interest.

An animated adventure for all ages, with original music and an all-star cast, “Smallfoot” turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human.News of this “smallfoot” brings him fame and a chance with the girl of his dreams. It also throws the simple Yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out...

Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park International announced today that the company has picked-up international rights to directors Will Finn and Daniel St. Pierre’s 3D animated family adventure film Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’S Return starring Lea Michele, Martin Short, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi and Kelsey Grammer. The film is from a script by Adam Balsam and Randi Barnes, based on the series of books by Roger Stanton Baum. Bonne Radford is producing alongside Ryan Carroll and Roland Carroll of Summertime Entertainment.

The film, scheduled for a May 2, 2014 domestic theatrical release by Clarius Entertainment on a minimum of 3,000 screens, will be introduced by Hpi’s President Eric Christenson and will screen at the upcoming Marché du Film. Cannes screenings are scheduled for Saturday, May 18th at 4:00pm at Olympia 2, Monday May 20th at 4:00pm at Olympia 2, and Tuesday, May 21st at 4:00pm at Olympia 8.

The film will...

By Andrew Sorcini

Dorothy of Oz is a new CGI animated musical from Summertime Entertainment, due out in 2012. The panel began with a clip reel composed of a few finished scenes combined with concept art. The montage showed off some of the impressive voice talent such as Glee's Lea Michele (as Dorothy herself), Wicked's Megan Hilty, Dan Aykroyd, Oliver Platt, Martin Short, Kelsey Grammer, Jim Belushi, Hugh Dancy, and Sir Patrick Stewart.

Panelists included producers Bonne Radford & Ryan Carroll, composer Debra Lurie, writer Roger Baum (grandson of original Oz creator L. Frank Baum) and voice actors Megan Hilty & Sir Patrick Stewart, in his first Comic–Con appearance.

Read more and see some images from the Dorothy of Oz panel below now!

Roger Baum said the creation of the new Oz books had its impetus as a personal bet to continue his grandfather's legacy. Producer Radford just wanted to remain faithful to the Baum legacy.

"Glee" star Lea Michele is set to both voice the titular character and sing several musical numbers in the animated 3D musical "Dorothy of Oz" for Summertime Entertainment reports Variety.

Randi Barnes, Adam Balsam and Barry Glasser penned the script based on the same book by Roger S. Baum, great-grandson of the original "The Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum. This story centers on Dorothy Gale "returning to a tornado-devastated Kansas and then being transported back to Oz to help her friends."

Also onboard are Jim Belushi as the Lion, Dan Aykroyd as the Scarecrow, Kelsey Grammer as the Tin Man, Oliver Platt as Wiser the Owl, Megan Hilty as the China Princess, Hugh Dancy as as Marshall Mallow and Martin Short as Dorothy's arch-nemesis Jester/

Bryan Adams and his writing partner Jim Vallance are writing the first songs and lyrics for the film. Bonne Radford ("Curious George,...

"Glee" star Lea Michele is putting on Judy Garland's ruby slippers -- or at least an animated representation of her is.

Michele has signed on to play Dorothy Gale in an animated film called "Dorothy of Oz." The movie is being made by independent company Summertime Entertainment and is tentatively scheduled for release in the spring of 2012.

"She's our Judy Garland," producer Bonne Radford tells the Los Angeles Times about Michele. The role will have her singing several songs as well as doing voiceover work.

"Dorothy of Oz" is based on a children's book by Roger Baum, the great-grandson of "Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum. The story finds Dorothy returning to Oz to find the magical land in a state of decay and her old friends Scarecrow, Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion disappeared.

The voice cast also includes Dan Aykroyd, Kelsey Grammer and Martin Short. Dan St. Pierre...

Variety are reporting that Lea Michele, star of Fox’s Glee, has been cast as the voice of Dorothy in Dorothy of Oz, an upcoming 3D animated musical from Summertime Entertainment. This would be her first feature film role.

Michele joins Jim Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and Kelsey Grammer who play the Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man respectively, in the film produced by Bonne Radford (Curious George, The Road to El Dorado).

The story reportedly follows Dorothy in a post-tornado Kansas before she returns to Oz to help her friends. Bryan Adams will apparently pen the songs for Dorothy of Oz with writing partner Jim Vallance.

Hollywoodnews.com: Lea Michele isn’t in Kansas anymore.

The “Glee” actress has been cast as the voice of Dorothy in the upcoming 3D animated musical “Dorothy of Oz” from Summertime Entertainment.

Actress joins comedians Jim Belushi who will play the Lion, Dan Ackroyd as the Scarecrow and Kelsey Grammer as the Tin Man.

Variety reports that “Dorothy” is the first feature film role for Michele. Film will be produced by Bonne Radford (“Curious George,” “The Road to El Dorado”).

The story follows Dorothy in a post-tornado Kansas before she returns to Oz to help her friends.

Bryan Adams will pen the songs for “Dorothy” with writing partner Jim Vallance. The production has no distributor as of yet.

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Rumor has it, a sequel to "Wizard of Oz" is coming and Drew Barrymore will be very much involved in the making process. According to Pajiba, the 35-year-old beauty has picked "Surrender Dorothy" to be her second directing vehicle after serving behind the lens for "Whip It!".

The upcoming project was first announced in 2002 and seemed stalled. But apparently "Surrender Dorothy" is still set up at Warner Brothers and Barrymore's production company Flower Films, and now the movie is resurrected.

In the early development, Barrymore was attached to star in the film. However, it is said that she might be a little too old to portray Dorothy's great-great-granddaughter. Thus, Pajiba proposes a name for the lead role, mentioning Ellen Page who has starred in "Whip It!".

"Surrender Dorothy" which has the script written by Zach Helm follows Dorothy's great-great-granddaughter who must learn how to use the power of ruby red...

Alpine Pictures has signed Martin Short and Jim Belushi as lead voices in its Dorothy of Oz animated musical feature film. Short plays the Jester while and Belushi will be the Cowardly Lion. Unlike previous adaptations based on L. Frank Baum’s series of books, this film will use Roger S. Baum, great-grandson of Frank, and his books. This debut offering from Alpine Pictures, will be produced by Bonne Radford (Curious George) and directed by Daniel St. Pierre (Everyone's Hero). Country star Taylor Swift is the likely voice behind Dorothy Gale. Production is underway with a 2009 release date planned.

A former banker, Baum began writing children’s stories in 1968 but he never wrote in the family’s Oz universe until he was approached by the International Wizard of Oz Club in 1987. Dorothy of Oz was published two years later followed by ten more titles.

His Lion of Oz, a prequel...

Alpine Pictures signs Martin Short and Jim Belushi to star in its upcoming animated musical feature film Dorothy of Oz. Short and Belushi will lend their voices to the Jester and the Lion respectively. Based on Roger S. Baum's books and writing, Dorothy of OZ is the first in a series of animated movies from Alpine Pictures, in association with Box Office Productions III. The movie is being produced by Bonne Radford (Curious George, Road to El Dorado, Balto) and directed by noted director/animator Daniel St. Pierre (Everyone's Hero, and upcoming Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, and Sheepish). Roger S. Baum is the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and other Oz books.

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Margret and H.A. Rey's mischievous monkey (he's technically a chimp, but why quibble with 65 years of tradition?), makes his long-threatened leap to the big screen in "Curious George", with much of the books' charm respectfully intact.

That is good news for those left a little concerned by Universal and Imagine's rather shrill and soulless take on Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" Here, H.A. Rey's lovely artwork has been preserved in gentle 2-D animation in lieu of being morphed into some kind of CGI-freak show.

The curious thing about "George", though, is that it might have erred on the side of being a little too benign.

Fleshing out the script to give the enigmatic Man in the Yellow Hat a much greater presence in order to accommodate Will Ferrell's decidedly 3-D personality has meant curtailing a chunk of George's shenanigans and the film bears the weight of the resulting imbalance.

Although the revised buddy picture might have some viewers taking that "Show Me the Monkey!" tagline to heart, youngsters should be appropriately tickled, while older viewers will still happily bask in all that mellow yellow nostalgia.

The screen story begins in a timeless New York-like metropolis, where the man not yet in possession of the ubiquitous banana-hued headgear, known here as Ted (voiced by Ferrell), works as a curator at the Bloomsberry Museum.

During one of his enthusiastic museum tours, Ted meets smitten schoolteacher Maggie (Drew Barrymore), but their mutual attraction is put on hold when owner Mr. Bloomsberry Dick Van Dyke), announces that the museum will have to close because of sagging attendance.

In a last ditch effort to save the establishment and prevent Bloomsberry's scheming son (David Cross) from turning the place into a parking lot, Ted embarks on a trek to Africa with plans to bring back a gigantic idol from the lost shrine of the Zagawa tribe.

Alas, the fabled statue that Ted uncovers proves to be even smaller than the little monkey (noises by Frank Walker) he befriends and who subsequently stows away aboard the ship.

Once George arrives in the big city, the rest, for tens of millions of fans, is mischief-making history.

Director Matthew O'Callaghan ("Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas") certainly demonstrates a reverence for both the look and rhythms of the books, but he's dealing with a slippery script (by Ken Kaufman, who shares story credit with Mike Werb) that has a habit of losing its grip on what should be its main subject.

Even though George doesn't talk, Ted does enough for both of them, and after a while his running monologue, despite Ferrell's best improvisational efforts, begins to put a crimp in the requisite monkey business.

Hopefully any sequel will deliver More George, but in the meantime this thoughtful adaptation gets it mostly right, from those warm visuals to the amiable cast (also including the voices of Joan Plowright and Eugene Levy) to Jack Johnson's breezy, laid-back original tunes.

Curious George

Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment present a David Kirschner-Jon Shapiro production

Credits:

Director: Matthew O'Callaghan

Screenwriter: Ken Kaufman

Story: Ken Kaufman and Mike Werb

Based on the books by: Margret and H.A. Rey

Producers: Ron Howard, David Kirschner, Jon Shapiro

Executive producers: Bonne Radford, Ken Tsumura, James Whitaker

David Bernardi

Production designer: Yarrow Cheney

Editor: Julie Rogers

Music Heitor Pereira

Songs: Jack Johnson

Cast:

Ted, the Man in the Yellow Hat: Will Ferrell

Maggie: Drew Barrymore

Bloomsberry Jr.: David Cross

Clovis: Eugene Levy

Miss Plushbottom: Joan Plowright

Mr. Bloomsberry: Dick Van Dyke

Curious George: Frank Walker

MPAA rating G

Running time -- 77 minutes...