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Guests: ‘Transformers: EarthSpark’ EPs Ant Ward & Dale Malinowski

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New CG animated series “Transformers: EarthSpark” premieres this Friday November 11th on Paramount+. (You can also watch the one-hour debut episode Friday at 4pm on Nickelodeon.) “EarthSpark” comes from EP Ant Ward and Co-EP Dale Malinowski. They spoke with me about how some legendary characters — and whole-hearted new ones — will excite franchise fans […]
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Cruise and Paramount on a Box Office Mission

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When “Top Gun: Maverick” finally opens on May 27th… or actually May 26th (Thursday showings)… or actually May 24th (pay preview screenings in premium formats)… it will be the first Tom Cruise film to be released in nearly four years. The last time Cruise appeared in a movie was exactly 3 years and 10 months […]
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Guests: ‘Big Nate’ EPs John Cohen & Mitch Watson

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Nickelodeon’s newest animated series is based on a popular comic and book franchise from Lincoln Peirce. “Big Nate”, about a 6th Grader ready to take on the world… or at least his middle school… premieres this Thursday Feb. 17 on Paramount+. Executive Producers John Cohen and Mitch Watson discuss how the show makes the grade. […]
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Animation Scoop: ‘The Musician’ Q&A

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Reza Riahi directs and Eleanor Coleman produces Oscar contender animated short film “The Musician”, which you can watch on Paramount+. Here’s my Animation Scoop Q&A with them about “The Musician”. ——————————————– Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written […]
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Guest: ‘Rumble’ Director Hamish Grieve

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Hamish Grieve is the director of the new animated wrestling comedy Rumble, which premieres this Wednesday December 15th on Paramount+. I go 10 rounds… I mean questions… with Grieve, who discusses his WWE influences, the all-star cast and why Rumble is worth the multi-year wait. —————————————– LCJ Q&A Podcast is hosted by Emmy award-winning film […]
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15 Years of Paramount Family Films

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When you think of family films, the studio that probably comes to mind is Disney. But Paramount has had its fair share over the years too. From 2006 – 2012, Paramount distributed DreamWorks Animation movies. They topped the studio’s yearly box office results in 2006 (“Over the Hedge”), 2007 (“Shrek the Third”) and 2012 (“Madagascar […]
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Guests: ‘Rugrats’ EPs Eryk Casemiro and Kate Boutilier

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Eryk Casemiro and Kate Boutilier are the executive producers of the new CG animated Rugrats reboot series. It premieres this Thursday May 27th on Paramount+. Casemiro and Boutilier are excited to return to this franchise – and hope fans do the same. They also talk about how they want to reach out to a new […]
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Paramount Ends Unique Year with + Launch

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Out of the major “theatrical” movie studios, Paramount has probably had the most interesting year. In February 2020, they released “Sonic the Hedgehog” to big box office. And then COVID happened. A big question on everyone’s minds was: Is Paramount going to send some of its films to the CBS All Access streaming service? The […]
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Guests: ‘Kamp Koral’ EPs Vincent Waller & Marc Ceccarelli

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Streaming service Paramount+ launches this Thursday March 4th with the brand new CG SpongeBob prequel series Kamp Koral. Nickelodeon’s beloved sponge is 10 years old, joining pals Patrick and Sandy at summer camp. Co-executive producers Vincent Waller and Marc Ceccarelli have worked on SpongeBob for years, and they’re thrilled to bring this new series to audiences of ALL ages. —————————————– […]
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‘Love and Monsters’ Movie Review

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Actor Dylan O’Brien raced through “The Maze Runner” trilogy. Now he follows that up with a starring role in Paramount’s post-apocalyptic action/adventure romantic comedy (with some drama too), “Love and Monsters”. O’Brien plays Joel Dawson. For the past seven years, the 24-year-old has been living in an underground bunker with a dozen fellow survivors. Joel […]
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