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Movie nights at home just got a whole lot Bigger! Clifford The Big Red Dog starring Jack Whitehall is available now to Download & Keep and is unleashed on Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 14th March with exclusive, never before seen bonus content! To celebrate the home media release, we’re giving away a Clifford The Big Red Dog prize bundle containing a copy of the film on Blu-ray, an adorable Clifford plush toy from Posh Paws and a copy of Clifford the Big Red Dog: The Movie Graphic Novel to one lucky winner!

When Emily (Darby Camp) discovers her little red puppy named Clifford has grown ten feet overnight, she turns to her eccentric Uncle Casey for help. But when an evil scientist tries to capture the larger-than-life playful pup, it takes the entire neighbourhood to hide Clifford as they race across the city. Get ready for the incredible, laugh-out-loud...

The holidays are about to get a whole lot Bigger when Clifford The Big Red Dog becomes available to purchase on Digital* December 14, 2021 with exclusive, never-before-seen bonus content from Paramount Home Entertainment. The film will be unleashed on Blu-ray & DVD February 1, 2022, in time for Valentine’s Day.

Called “a movie families need right now”, Clifford The Big Red Dog is the perfect movie for the whole family to cozy up at home and watch during the holidays. Plus, fans can have twice the fun with a two-movie collection featuring Paw Patrol: The Movie and Clifford The Big Red Dog exclusively on Digital together for one pup-tastic price.

The Digital* release of Clifford The Big Red Dog features supersized and fun-filled bonus content, including a behind-the-scenes tour with the cast, a closer look at the puppeteers who helped bring Clifford to life, an exploration of Clifford’s beginning with creator Norman Bridwell,...

"Magic is all around us," says John Cleese in voiceover. We will later discover that he, and, one suspects a number of stand-ins, are playing a Mr Bridwell. Named for the eponymous animal's creator, Norman Bridwell created Emily Elizabeth and Clifford The Big Red Dog back in 1963. The book where he goes to Hollywood was 1980, but it took a few more years for screen adaptations. Variously released already, in some cinemas at some points, this is a family animal picture in a traditional fashion. While it's got some quirks it's relatively inoffensive, and if it feels like damning it with faint praise to say it's got nothing drastically wrong with it then fair enough.

It is less off-putting than the quota of saliva, urine, snot and flatulence jokes that are as much a part of dog movies like Turner & Hooch and Beethoven as weirdly obsessed baddies. Here (among...

As the film relocates the action to NYC, Emily Elizabeth and co try to keep Clifford out of the hands of a nefarious company

Author Norman Bridwell’s picture book series about Clifford the Big Red Dog represented a wholesome slice of mid-century Americana, with the self-explanatorily named title character, an enormous vermillion hound, loved and cared for by his owner Emily Elizabeth Howard, perhaps in the way an American dad of the period would have loved and cared for a Cadillac. A few TV series based on the story moved with the times but largely stuck to the kiddie-centric, suburban world of the books.

This reboot feature film has clearly taken its inspiration from the peerless Paddington films, which cleverly updated classic children’s literature property by resituating the setting to contemporary London, idealistically envisioned as a multicultural melange populated by lovable eccentrics. So here we have Clifford as...

Paramount Pictures is beginning development on a sequel to eOne’s Clifford the Big Red Dog.

The live-action family movie based on the 1963 Norman Bridwell children’s classic book, opened on Nov. 10 in theaters and dropped on Paramount+ in homes day and date. The movie has grossed $34.6M stateside to date. Clifford in his first weekend on the studio’s Ott service was the most watched original film to date. No release date has been set yet for the sequel, and it’s yet to be determined whether the film gets a hybrid or exclusive theatrical window.

The news about a Clifford sequel comes in the wake of Paramount greenlighting a sequel to Paw Patrol: The Movie, that movie grossing $130.1M worldwide and buzzed to be a profitable title for the Melrose lot, even with a day and date release stategy on Paramount+ in the U.S.

Clifford the Big Red Dog...

A sequel for Clifford the Big Red Dog is in the works.

On Tuesday, Paramount Pictures confirmed the move after a 5-day theatrical opening of $22.2 million for the original Clifford the Big Red Dog, which launched simultaneously in theaters and on Paramount+ around Veterans Day. The family film adapted Norman Bridwell’s beloved children’s book series about a young New Yorker named Emily whose tiny new puppy grows to be 10 feet tall overnight.

Clifford the Big Red Dog starred Darby Camp as Emily, as well as Jack Whitehall, John Cleese and Tony Hale. Walt Becker directed the film and Jay Scherick, David ...

A sequel for Clifford the Big Red Dog is in the works.

On Tuesday, Paramount Pictures confirmed the move after a 5-day theatrical opening of $22.2 million for the original Clifford the Big Red Dog, which launched simultaneously in theaters and on Paramount+ around Veterans Day. The family film adapted Norman Bridwell’s beloved children’s book series about a young New Yorker named Emily whose tiny new puppy grows to be 10 feet tall overnight.

Clifford the Big Red Dog starred Darby Camp as Emily, as well as Jack Whitehall, John Cleese and Tony Hale. Walt Becker directed the film and Jay Scherick, David ...

“Eternals” will keep its crown at the domestic box office, as the Marvel entry is projected to repeat as No. 1 with an estimated $27 million gross in its second weekend.

Should current projections pan out, the MCU entry will fall approximately 62% in its sophomore outing. Measured against the second weekends of other Marvel Studios releases this year, that’s a much steeper drop than the 52% sink of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and a healthier one than the 67% tumble “Black Widow” took. However, that latter film simultaneously debuted as a rental on Disney Plus through the streamer’s Premier Access program, a release strategy that undoubtedly impacted its ultimate box office performance.

“Eternals” is headed for one of the larger second weekend drops in the MCU’s eleven-year history. “Black Widow” outstanding, the only other franchise entries to fall at least 62% in their sophomore outings are 2018’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp...

Clifford the Big Red Dog fetched a pleasing $2.3 million Wednesday at the North American box office.

The kid-friendly film from Paramount Pictures opened in cinemas midweek in order to take advantage of Veterans Day, which falls on Thursday.

Clifford placed second on its opening day behind Marvel’s superhero pic Eternals, which earned north of $4 million for a six-day domestic total of $85 million.

Eternals is only available in cinemas, while Clifford is launching simultaneously in theaters and on Paramount+, a hybrid release strategy following the success of fellow family film Paw Patrol: The Movie.

Clifford the Big Red Dog adapts Norman Bridwell’s beloved children’s ...

Clifford the Big Red Dog fetched a pleasing $2.3 million Wednesday at the North American box office.

The kid-friendly film from Paramount Pictures opened in cinemas midweek in order to take advantage of Veterans Day, which falls on Thursday.

Clifford placed second on its opening day behind Marvel’s superhero pic Eternals, which earned north of $4 million for a six-day domestic total of $85 million.

Eternals is only available in cinemas, while Clifford is launching simultaneously in theaters and on Paramount+, a hybrid release strategy following the success of fellow family film Paw Patrol: The Movie.

Clifford the Big Red Dog adapts Norman Bridwell’s beloved children’s ...

For those who grew up reading Norman Bridwell's sweet and heartwarming book series, Clifford the Big Red Dog is an exciting and nostalgic movie. Emily finds her New York City life changed forever when Clifford is in her apartment, and she and her uncle have a fun adventure over the course of the movie.

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After watching this adorable movie, fans can watch several other films that focus on adorable pets and the people whose lives they alter for the better. These include some '90s movies that bring on a lot of nostalgia along with some newer ones.

It’s important to acknowledge one’s pre-existing biases in criticism, so here goes: I’ve never really cottoned to Clifford the Big Red Dog. It’s always struck me as one of the most inexplicable of popular children’s properties – so it’s a dog, and it’s red, and it’s big. Kind of a one-note thing, really, and Norman Bridwell’s books (and the various cartoons and other media inspired by it) mostly just coast on the premise.

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Clifford the Big Red Dog was born in a series of children’s books, the first of which was published in 1963. In the decades since, the adventures of the scarlet canine mascot-hero have been spun into three popular PBS Kids TV series, a live musical, video games, and the 2004 animated feature “Clifford’s Really Big Movie,” which was adapted from one of the TV series (and did very little business). All of which is to say that unlikely as it may sound, the new “Clifford the Big Red Dog” is the first really big Clifford movie. So what does that mean?

It means that the film retains some of the benign humanistic qualities of its source, but that it has also been shoved into the knockabout slapstick high jinks paradigm of such CGI-critter-meets-live-action comedies as “Sonic the Hedgehog” and “Garfield: The Movie” and the “Alvin and the Chipmunks” films. Most...

It may seem like damning with faint praise to suggest that the reason Clifford the Big Red Dog succeeds as well as it does is that it doesn’t try to do too much in the first place. It’s not reinventing the wheel or breaking new ground; it’s unlikely to wow audiences with its bold artistic vision or profound emotional depths. But there’s a place for sturdy and familiar entertainment that delivers exactly what it intends, and Clifford the Big Red Dog is just that.

As in the Norman Bridwell books it’s based on, the film’s entire ...

It may seem like damning with faint praise to suggest that the reason Clifford the Big Red Dog succeeds as well as it does is that it doesn’t try to do too much in the first place. It’s not reinventing the wheel or breaking new ground; it’s unlikely to wow audiences with its bold artistic vision or profound emotional depths. But there’s a place for sturdy and familiar entertainment that delivers exactly what it intends, and Clifford the Big Red Dog is just that.

As in the Norman Bridwell books it’s based on, the film’s entire ...

"People don't like things that are different." Paramount Pictures has debuted the second official trailer for their live-action Clifford the Big Red Dog movie, based on the classic Scholastic book series by Norman Bridwell. The first trailer arrived in the summer and was made fun of by almost everyone, mostly because the giant red dog look so odd. Technically this is a "hybrid" movie because Clifford is actually entirely CGI, though they did use a giant maquette on set during filming. A girl's love for a tiny puppy named Clifford makes the dog grow to an enormous size. Emily and her fun but impulsive uncle Casey then set out on an adventure that will keep you on the edge-of-your-seat as our heroes take a bite out of the Big Apple. Clifford the Big Red Dog features Darby Camp, Jack Whitehall, Tony Hale, Sienna Guillory, David Alan Grier, Russell Wong and John Cleese as Mr.

After delaying its initial release, Paramount Pictures announced that the live-action “Clifford the Big Red Dog” will open both in theaters and on Paramount Plus on Nov. 10.

Based on the children’s book series written by Norman Bridwell, the film will follow middle-schooler Emily Elizabeth (Darby Camp) who meets a magical animal rescuer (John Cleese) and is given a little, red puppy only to wake up to find a giant ten-foot hound in her small New York City apartment. While her single mom (Sienna Guillory) is away for business, Emily and her uncle Casey (Jack Whitehall) set out on an adventure for audiences to behold.

The film was originally set to release on Sept. 17 but was pushed back due to concerns surrounding the delta variant like several other films were this past year, including Tom Cruise’s latest installment of “Top Gun.” Now premiering in both theaters and on Paramount’s streaming service,...

Clifford the Big Red Dog is back on track for release. Paramount has put the children’s film back on the calendar for Nov. 10 for a day-and-date release in theaters and on Paramount+. It currently has that weekend to itself in terms of movies opening nationwide.

Clifford the Big Red Dog adapts Norman Bridwell’s beloved children’s book series about a 25-foot-tall red dog and his young owner, Emily Elizabeth. The film stars Darby Camp as Emily Elizabeth, as well as Jack Whitehall, John Cleese and Tony Hale. Jay Scherick directs and has a screenplay credit along with David Ronn and Blaise ...

Clifford the Big Red Dog is back on track for release. Paramount has put the children’s film back on the calendar for Nov. 10 for a day-and-date release in theaters and on Paramount+. It currently has the date to itself.

Clifford the Big Red Dog adapts Norman Bridwell’s beloved children’s book series about a 25-foot-tall red dog and his young owner, Emily Elizabeth. The film stars Darby Camp as Emily Elizabeth, as well as Jack Whitehall, John Cleese and Tony Hale. Jay Scherick directs and has a screenplay credit along with David Ronn and Blaise Hemingway. A popular animated Clifford ...

Paramount’s Clifford the Big Red Dog has officially been pulled from its planned September release amid growing concerns over the Covid-19 Delta variant, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Originally set to release on September 17, the Walt Becker-directed film’s new release date is unknown at this time.

Clifford the Big Red Dog will offer a big-screen adaptation of Norman Bridwell’s beloved children’s book series about a 25-foot-tall red dog and his owner, a child named Emily Elizabeth. The film stars Darby Camp as Emily Elizabeth, as well as Jack Whitehall, John Cleese and Tony Hale. A popular animated Clifford ...

Paramount’s Clifford the Big Red Dog has been pulled from its planned September theatrical release amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and a surge in cases due to the delta variant.

The movie had been set to open in theaters on September 17. A new release date for the Walt Becker-directed film has yet to be announced.

Clifford the Big Red Dog is a big-screen adaptation of Norman Bridwell’s beloved children’s book series about a 25-foot-tall red dog and his owner, a child named Emily Elizabeth.

The film stars Darby Camp as Emily Elizabeth, as well as Jack Whitehall, John ...

Darby Camp and Jack Whitehall star in Clifford The Big Red Dog from Paramount Pictures. Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures.

Catch the brand new trailer for Clifford The Big Red Dog, coming to the Big screen September 17.

When middle-schooler Emily Elizabeth (Darby Camp) meets a magical animal rescuer (John Cleese) who gifts her a little, red puppy, she never anticipated waking up to find a giant ten-foot hound in her small New York City apartment. While her single mom (Sienna Guillory) is away for business, Emily and her fun but impulsive uncle Casey (Jack Whitehall) set out on an adventure that will keep you on the edge-of-your-seat as our heroes take a bite out of the Big Apple. Based on the beloved Scholastic book character, Clifford will teach the world how to love big!

Stars Jack Whitehall, Darby Camp, Tony Hale, Sienna Guillory, David Alan Grier, Russell Wong and John Cleese.

Clifford the Big Red Dog has been a good boy since his creation in the pages of Norman Bridwell’s books in 1963. Since then, he’s gotten his own animated series, straight-to-video movies, video games, and plenty of merchandise. Now he’s being turned into nightmare fuel in a new live-action adaptation from Paramount Pictures, and the […]

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Clifford is at his biggest yet in the new official trailer for Clifford the Big Red Dog. Based on the children's book series of the same name, the new movie brings the gargantuan canine to a live-action world for the very first time. Ahead of the release of Clifford in theaters in September, Paramount Pictures has released a new poster along with the new official trailer, which you can watch below. A photo of the movie was previously leaked, but this is our first official look at the new Clifford.

The official synopsis reads: "When middle-schooler Emily Elizabeth (Darby Camp) meets a magical animal rescuer (John Cleese) who gifts her a little, red puppy, she never anticipated waking up to find a giant ten-foot hound in her small New York City apartment. While her single mom (Sienna Guillory) is away for business, Emily and her fun but impulsive uncle Casey...

"Clifford the Big Red Dog" is a new live-action/CG-animated adventure comedy feature, directed by Walt Becker ("Van Wilder") based on the book series of the same name by Norman Bridwell, starring Darby Camp, Jack Whitehall, Kenan Thompson, Paul Rodriguez, Tony Hale, Russell Peters, Rosie Perez, and John Cleese, with David Alan Grier as the voice of the title character, releasing in theaters September 17, 2021:

"...as 'Emily Elizabeth' struggles to fit in at home and at school, she discovers a small red puppy who is destined to become her best friend from a magical animal rescuer. 

"But 'Clifford' becomes a gigantic red dog in her New York City apartment and attracts the attention of a genetics company who wish to supersize animals. Emily and her clueless 'Uncle Casey' have to fight the forces of greed as they go on the run across New York City and take a bite out of the 'Big Apple'.

A new teaser trailer for Clifford The Big Red Dog has been released and it wants us to get ready for one big adventure! Clifford The Big Red Dog is based on Norman Bridwell's series of children's books of the name and per the film's synopsis, "When middle-schooler Emily Elizabeth (Darby Camp) meets a magical animal rescuer (John Cleese) who gifts her a little, red puppy,…...

"Heroes don't get bigger than this!" Paramount Pictures has released an official trailer for their live-action Clifford the Big Red Dog movie, adapted from the classic Scholastic book series by Norman Bridwell. Technically this is a "hybrid" movie because Clifford is actually entirely CGI, though they did use a creepy maquette thing on set during filming. A girl's love for a tiny puppy named Clifford makes the dog grow to an enormous size. Emily and her fun but impulsive uncle Casey set out on an adventure that will keep you on the edge-of-your-seat as our heroes take a bite out of the Big Apple. Clifford the Big Red Dog stars Darby Camp, Jack Whitehall, Tony Hale, Sienna Guillory, David Alan Grier, Russell Wong and John Cleese as Mr. Bridwell. Thankfully this doesn't look as bad as it could, but it also doesn't look that great. There's not much of a...

No media property is “real” until it becomes as big as it possibly can be, until it becomes a movie. Every novel, every comics series, every TV show, every webseries, every nonfiction book, every song, every TikTok sea shanty aspires to turn into a big budget motion-picture that will dilute and adulterate what was special about the original thing while making vast amounts of money for the same few global multimedia conglomerates and making the newly shiny, market-tested and subtly stupider thing vastly better known among people who would never bother to pay attention to the original thing.

This is yet another sign that our world is inherently flawed, and that, if there are any gods, they hate us.

Norman Bridwell wrote and illustrated over fifty books about Clifford the Big Red Dog, using first his own imagination, his wife’s stories of her childhood imaginary playmate, and his daughter...

Did Hollywood learn nothing from the toothsome first version of Sonic the hedgehog?

After Paramount debuted a first look at the new CGI version of the children’s classic “Clifford the Big Red Dog” on Wednesday, fans took to the internet to express their displeasure at the title Labrador retriever’s “scary as hell” appearance.

“This isn’t Clifford, it’s a dog covered in blood,” Twitter user Mevans2703 wrote.

Twitter user @Kathriller suggested that the new film might be a horror movie, posting an image of the character dwarfing much smaller canines: “Clifford is already drenched in the blood of his enemies and he isn’t finished.”

The movie, based on Norman Bridwell’s beloved children’s books and subsequent PBS TV series, follows Clifford and his human pal, Emily Elizabeth (played by Darby Camp), who adopts the little, red puppy from a magical animal rescuer (John Cleese) — and...

Our first official look at the live-action/CGI-animated movie version of Clifford the Big Red Dog has arrived. On the official Twitter account for the upcoming movie, a sneak peek video reveals the giant, red-furred dog as he compares to other normal-sized canines. "This holiday season, we're thankful for the pets who've love got us through the year, but next year, get ready to love even bigger," a narrator says, encouraging fans to share pictures of their pets using the hashtag #LoveBig.

It’s here: your very first look at Clifford The Big Red Dog! #CliffordMovie hits theatres next year, but today we’re celebrating the pets who inspire us to #LoveBig.

On the Wednesday ahead of Thanksgiving, Paramount Pictures shared the first look at the title hound in the upcoming feature film “Clifford The Big Red Dog.” But we’re definitely not giving thanks for this visual monstrosity of the monster-sized (and usually lovable) pooch.

We can’t quite put our paw on what we hate about this CGI animation, but for starters, that fur color…

In the movie, Clifford’s pal/owner from the books Emily Elizabeth, played by Darby Camp, meets a magical animal rescuer (John Cleese) who gifts her a little, red puppy. She never anticipated waking up to find a giant 10-foot hound in her small New York City apartment, according to Paramount’s provided plot.

“While her single mom (Sienna Guillory) is away for business, Emily and her fun but impulsive uncle Casey (Jack Whitehall) set out on an adventure that will keep you on the...

Paramount Pictures has offered up a brand new first-look at their live-action/computer-animated adaptation of Clifford The Big Red Dog and if this is any indication, it's bound to fun for the entire family. Clifford The Big Red Dog is based on Norman Bridwell's series of children's books of the name. The film follows Emily Elizabeth (Darby Camp) as she struggles to fit in at home and at school. Soon she discovers a small red puppy who is destined to become her best friend.…...

Saturday Night Live stalwart Kenan Thompson, Rosie Perez and David Alan Grier are joining Paramount's Clifford the Big Red Dog movie.

Walt Becker is directing the project, which is set to begin shooting next month in New York and is being produced by Jordan Kerner and Scholastic Entertainment’s Iole Lucchese.

Norman Bridwell's Clifford books follow the misadventures of the titular giant red dog and his owner, a girl named Emily Elizabeth.

The movie will see Emily (Big Little Lies' Darby Camp), who is struggling to fit in at home and at school, discover a small red puppy who ...

Saturday Night Live stalwart Kenan Thompson, Rosie Perez and David Alan Grier are joining Paramount's Clifford the Big Red Dog movie.

Walt Becker is directing the project, which is set to begin shooting next month in New York and is being produced by Jordan Kerner and Scholastic Entertainment’s Iole Lucchese.

Norman Bridwell's Clifford books follow the misadventures of the titular giant red dog and his owner, a girl named Emily Elizabeth.

The movie will see Emily (Big Little Lies' Darby Camp), who is struggling to fit in at home and at school, discover a small red puppy who ...

Clifford has found some new friends.

John Cleese and Sienna Guillory have joined Paramount's film adaptation of Clifford the Big Red Dog, along with newcomer Izaac Wang.

Walt Becker is directing the project, which is set to begin shooting next month in New York and is being produced by Jordan Kerner and Scholastic Entertainment’s Iole Lucchese.

Norman Bridwell's Clifford books follow the misadventures of the titular giant red dog and his owner, a girl named Emily Elizabeth.

The movie will see Emily (Big Little Lies' Darby Camp), who is struggling to fit in at home and at ...

Clifford has found some new friends.

John Cleese and Sienna Guillory have joined Paramount's film adaptation of Clifford the Big Red Dog, along with newcomer Izaac Wang.

Walt Becker is directing the project, which is set to begin shooting next month in New York and is being produced by Jordan Kerner and Scholastic Entertainment’s Iole Lucchese.

Norman Bridwell's Clifford books follow the misadventures of the titular giant red dog and his owner, a girl named Emily Elizabeth.

The movie will see Emily (Big Little Lies' Darby Camp), who is struggling to fit in at home and at ...

Paramount has shuffled around their release calendar a bit, providing one long-awaited movie with a release date, delaying another and removing one more from its 2019 slate entirely. Starting with the big one, the studio has removed Are You Afraid of the Dark? from this year's calendar. The live-action take on the kid-friendly horror series was originally slated to hit theaters later this year on October 11. Now, the studio has taken it off of the 2019 calendar altogether. They have also added new release dates for the upcoming Rugrats movie and Clifford.

According to a new report, Are You Afraid of the Dark? has not been given a new release date. Does that mean they just need more time to get it ready? Or is there something more going on here? Whatever the case may actually be, it doesn't mean that anyone should panic, or that this movie isn't happening because there's no indication that's the case.

Paramount’s untitled Clifford the Big Red Dog movie is set to prance into theaters on Nov. 13, 2020, the eve of the lucrative Thanksgiving box office corridor.

Walt Becker (Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip) is directing the big-screen adaptation of Norman Bridwell's beloved children's book series about a 25-foot-tall red dog and his owner, a child named Emily Elizabeth. A popular animated Clifford series has been a fixture on PBS since 2000.

Rugrats, another Paramount family pic, will now open Jan. 29, 2021, instead of Nov. 13, 2020.

In a separate move, Paramount has taken Are You ...

Paramount’s untitled Clifford the Big Red Dog movie is set to prance into theaters on Nov. 13, 2020, the eve of the lucrative Thanksgiving box office corridor.

Walt Becker (Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip) is directing the big-screen adaptation of Norman Bridwell's beloved children's book series about a 25-foot-tall red dog and his owner, a child named Emily Elizabeth. A popular animated Clifford series has been a fixture on PBS since 2000.

Rugrats, another Paramount family pic, will now open Jan. 29, 2021, instead of Nov. 13, 2020.

In a separate move, Paramount has taken Are You ...

Decades ago, Lassie Come Home was a pretty big feature film, but this news about an on-screen dog is even bigger -- at least in physical size. Scholastic is rebooting the beloved, animated Clifford the Big Red Dog TV show for PBS Kids and Amazon Prime, with a start date Tbd in 2019. The updated series is based on the character created by the late author and illustrator Norman Bridwell, who published his first Clifford the Big Red Dog book in 1963. The original Clifford the Big Red Dog premiered on PBS in the year 2000 and ran for three seasons. The late John Ritter voiced the title character. A prequel, Clifford’s Puppy Days ran from 2003 to 2006 and featured the vocal talents of Lara Jill Miller and Henry Winkler. Read More…...

Clifford the Big Red Dog is getting a reboot.

Amazon Prime Video and PBS Kids are set to launch a "reimagined" version of the animated show, inspired by the Scholastic Entertainment book series by Norman Bridwell, in 2019.

The animated show — which follows Clifford, an oversize red dog, and his best friend, Emily Elizabeth — is currently in production for 39 episodes.

Clifford the Big Red Dog has been a staple on PBS Kids since it first premiered in 2000. (John Ritter was the voice of Clifford in the series, which ran through 2003.)

The new version, while ...

Paramount’s Clifford the Big Red Dog movie project has a new leash on life.

Walt Becker, who directed Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, has come aboard to helm the feature, which is intended to be a live-action hybrid.

Clifford adapts the children’s books by Norman Bridwell, which have made their mark on generations of kids since first being published in 1963.

The books told of the adventures of a 25-foot-tall red dog and his owner, a child named Emily Elizabeth. The girl picked up the dog when he was a puppy and the runt of the litter, but...

Legion: A new photo from upcoming television series Legion reveals a new look at Dan Stevens (The Guest). Stevens plays David Haller, a mutant dealing with schizophrenia. In the Marvel comic book series New Mutants, the character is the son of Professor Charles Xavier. Aubrey Plaza, Jean Smart and Rachel Keller also star. The series will "likely feature all-new characters from the X-Men universe." Noah Hawley (TV's Fargo) wrote the pilot episode and will serve as showrunner for the FX series. [ScreenCrush]   Clifford the Big Red Dog: Paramount Pictures has acquired rights to Clifford the Big Red Dog. Written by Norman Bridwell and first published in 1963, the children's book series followed an 8-year-old girl and her adventures with a dog who grows to...

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Legion: A new photo from upcoming television series Legion reveals a new look at Dan Stevens (The Guest). Stevens plays David Haller, a mutant dealing with schizophrenia. In the Marvel comic book series New Mutants, the character is the son of Professor Charles Xavier. Aubrey Plaza, Jean Smart and Rachel Keller also star. The series will "likely feature all-new characters from the X-Men universe." Noah Hawley (TV's Fargo) wrote the pilot episode and will serve as showrunner for the FX series. [ScreenCrush]   Clifford the Big Red Dog: Paramount Pictures has acquired rights to Clifford the Big Red Dog. Written by Norman Bridwell and first published in 1963, the children's book series followed an 8-year-old girl and her adventures with a dog who grows to...

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Legion: A new photo from upcoming television series Legion reveals a new look at Dan Stevens (The Guest). Stevens plays David Haller, a mutant dealing with schizophrenia. In the Marvel comic book series New Mutants, the character is the son of Professor Charles Xavier. Aubrey Plaza, Jean Smart and Rachel Keller also star. The series will "likely feature all-new characters from the X-Men universe." Noah Hawley (TV's Fargo) wrote the pilot episode and will serve as showrunner for the FX series. [ScreenCrush]   Clifford the Big Red Dog: Paramount Pictures has acquired rights to Clifford the Big Red Dog. Written by Norman Bridwell and first published in 1963, the children's book series followed an 8-year-old girl and her adventures with a dog who grows to...

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Though Universal first adopted Clifford the Big Red Dog, tentatively placing a big-screen movie on course for release in 2016, Deadline brings word that the giant canine has now found a home at Paramount.

Enlisting screenwriter Justin Malen (Baywatch), it’s understood the rejuvenated feature film will incorporate both CGI and live-action sequences in a manner not dissimilar to Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book.

A product of celebrated author and cartoonist Norman Bridwell, Clifford the Big Red Dog first roared to life all the way back in the early ’60s, going on to become a fixture of childhoods nationwide through Bridwell’s own novels and the eventual TV adaptations. Now, a bona fide feature film is in the works.

Orbiting around Emily Elizabeth, a pint-sized young girl who grows up in a rural community, Clifford kicks into gear when, inexplicably, Emily’s loveable birthday present grows to be 25 feet tall.

Paramount Pictures has picked up the film rights to the beloved children's book series "Clifford the Big Red Dog" and is developing it as a live-action/CG hybrid feature (ala "The Smurfs," "Garfield").

Justin Malen, who penned the upcoming "Baywatch" film, will adapt the script from the 75-book strong series created by Norman Bridwell in 1963. The story follows the 25-foot-tall canine and his owner, the young Emily Elizabeth, and their misadventures together.

The books were previously adapted into a video series in the 1980s, two television series, and a 2004 animated film. David Bowers ("Astro Boy") was attached to helm this film when it was previously setup at Universal Pictures.

Source: Deadline...

She helped found Action for Children’s Television, which paved the way for kids to get fewer harmful commercials and more educational programming

Peggy Charren, a children’s advocate and pioneer in kids’ programming, has died. She was 86.

Charren had suffered from vascular dementia in later years, according to media reports. At the time of her death she was living in a Dedham, Massachusetts retirement community with her husband Stanley, who is a retired businessman and engineer.

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All dogs go to heaven! Norman Bridwell, the creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog, has died at the age of 86.  The beloved author passed away on Friday, Dec. 12, in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., his publisher Scholastic wrote in a release. Bridwell wrote more than 150 titles with the book company, largely centered on his famed character Clifford.  In Bridwell's celebrated children's books, the oversized red dog belongs to a little girl named Emily Elizabeth and grows from the smallest in his litter to a massive pup [...]...

Norman Bridwell, creator of the beloved children’s book character Clifford the Big Red Dog, has died. He was 86. Scholastic Trade Book Publishing said the author and illustrator died Friday on Martha’s Vineyard.

“Norman Bridwell’s books about Clifford, childhood’s most loveable dog, could only have been written by a gentle man with a great sense of humor,” Scholastic chief Dick Robinson said. “Norman personified the values that we as parents and educators hope to communicate to our children – kindness, compassion, helpfulness, gratitude – through the Clifford stories which have been loved for more than 50 years.”

Bridwell created Clifford in 1963 and went on to publish more than 150 Clifford titles, which have sold a combined 129 million copies and been translated into 13 languages. The stories follow the adventures of Clifford, who is loved so much as a puppy by his young owner Emily Elizabeth — named after Bridwell’s daughter — that he...