Okay, I have an eight year old daughter who loves the chipmunks. When I show her this teaser trailer in the morning, she’ll shine a bit.  She’ll want to see more; but I will explain more will be coming — that’s show biz — it’s a teaser.  I have a question: Where is Jason Lee?

The Last Airbender trailer is a true teaser without any details.  I want to know more before I decide if M. Night Shamalayan does the popular story justice.  What do you think?

Academy Award-winning director and world-renowned Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki brings us a young and overeager goldfish named Ponyo (voiced by Noah Cyrus) and her quest to become human.  Ponyo is already a box office success in Japan. The movie opens in the U.S. on August 14, 2009.

My daughter gleefully tore the plastic wrapping from the box of Tom and Jerry: Chuck Jones Collection, and then she popped the first disc in the player while I nuked a bag of popcorn.

I wasn’t sure how my daughter and her friends would react to “such old” cartoons without today’s computer animation. Yet, the kids were laughing and literally jumping up and down with delight.   Roars of laughter came as they watched Jerry suck an ice cube up a straw, remaining square-shaped into his little tummy, such a simple scene yet so funny. Needless to say, I sat down with the kids and laughed along with them as we watched cartoons like Of Feline Bondage, Puss ‘n’ Boats and The Cat’s Me-Ouch.

We devoured the popcorn and watched both discs laughing all the way – a true treat for my daughter and her friends. I highly recommend the Tom and Jerry: Chuck Jones Collection for any child’s library, even for those who are only young at heart.

Tom and Jerry: Chuck Jones Collection will be available June 23, 2009. Collection includes 34 re-mastered theatrical shorts available together on DVD for the first time and all-new documentaries  

Leaving behind her high-profile job at SNL, Amy Poehler is moving onto a new role: Lunch Lady.

The film will be an adaptation of Jarrett Krosoczka’s children’s graphic novel series. It follows a mild-mannered school cafeteria server who secretly dishes out helpings of justice as she and her assistant investigate wrongdoings.

It is currently being adapted by Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern. The first two books are due out this summer.

If Up had popped a couple more balloons The Hangover would have beaten the Disney/Pixar film.  The race was that close. As it is, Up is the number one film, again.  I am not surprise, the film is pure adventure, laughter and a wonderful story for the whole family.

Up stayed high at the box office with Night at the Museum: Battle Smithsonian hanging in the balloons shadows. Two Family films at the top definitely tells us the movies we want to see.

The winner is Chad Horenziak (287) is the winner!!

“I am a gentleman.”

I took great pleasure in watching The Tale of Despereaux with my daughter. The story is beautifully told by narrator Sigourney Weaver about a far away kingdom of Dor… lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who believed in himself and dreamt of becoming a Knight. 

Despereaux broke the law by reading books and talking to a human, so Mouseworld banished him from his home for having such lofty ambitions. 

Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with his good-hearted rat friend, Roscuro, who leads him, at long last, on a very noble quest to rescue an endangered princess and save an entire kingdom from darkness. 

The movie includes the voices of Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy, Tony Hale, Ciaran Hinds, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, Christopher Lloyd, William H. Macy, Charles Shaughnessy, Stanley Tucci, Tracey Ulman and Emma Watson. 

The Tale of Despereaux is a keeper for anyone’s library.  It’s a colorful, engaging story about a special mouse that teaches the lessons of honor, truth and bravery.  “I am a gentleman.”

As a kid l loved watching The Jetsons because the futuristic family made life seem so easy in the future, automation, robot maids and robot teachers. Just push a button and your meal is fixed. Although I must admit that The Jetsons reminded me of the Flinstones, but in the future.  The Jetsons Season 2comes with outstanding featurettes that the adults will get a kick out of after the kiddies are done with the episodes. Three-disc collector’s set includes 21 fantastic episodes of the cult-classic cartoon series from between 1984 and 1985. Includes a documentary featurette called, The Jetsons Return to the Future, which looks at the various ways that the second season was updated for a new audience, as well as how it distinguished itself from its predecessor.  Interviews include animation historians, cast, crew and others.

Kickstart Entertainment has bought the rights to Image/Shadowline comic Dear Dracula by Joshua Williamson. The series was released as a 48-page volume through Silverline.

The kid’s tale saw a boy – who loved his horror more than the average boy – write to the famous vampire on Halloween just as anyone his age would write to Santa Claus. And, as you can guess by now, the bloodsucker decides to visit him.

The project was initially being developed as a stop-motion film, but the producers have now opted to make a CGI film. Kickstart is the studio behind Wanted, which is best known for baring Angelina Jolie’s bare back and bending bullets, though the latter is irrelevant when it comes to Jolie’s back.

Williamson himself is penning the script, noting that he has “kept everything from the book and expanded on it… if people enjoyed the book, they’re going to love the movie.”

Up is in the clouds winning the number one spot at the box office this weekend. The Disney/Pixar film scored an estimated $68.2 million.

Up ranks high with its cousins: Wall-E, Incredibles and Finding Nemo, hitting the 21 million mark.

CGibbs (117) is the winner!!! Congratulations!!!

On behalf of Lionsgate and  in shell-ebration  of the 25^th Anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Screenhead is pleased to announce the May 12th DVD release of Season 7 of the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series that started it all.   

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 7 includes 27 episodes to be released for the first time ever as four separate collectible DVDs featuring one of your favorite turtles on each cover. Each disc includes different episodes from the season and a Mini-Classic Turtles Action Figure!  Collect all 4 DVDs to complete your Season 7 set– even the cases fit together to complete a unified action scene!    

Cowabunga!!!  Don’t forget the pizza when you watch your favorite episodes!

I’ll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue
And it’s hey to the starboard, heave-ho
Look out, lad, a mermaid be waiting for you
In mysterious fathoms below …

Click on the invitation and discover the gathering last Thursday evening at Woodbury University in Burbank, California where most of the original crew that worked on this Academy Award winner gathered with animation fans and friends to celebrate the movie that gave new life to the second golden age of Disney feature animation.

Chuck (123) is the winner!

Catch up with Carly, Sam, and Freddie with 12 episodes, bonus features, and more.

My daughter just loves this DVD with all the crazy situations that come up on the show.  She rather watch the DVD than on cable television.

Join Carly, Sam, and Freddie as they deal with all the craziness of school, growing up, and crankin’ out the best web show out there, iCarly.com!