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To celebrate the release of Jamie and the Magic Torch, on DVD from 18th March, we are giving away DVDs to 2 lucky winners!

Every night when his mum calls out ‘Sleep Well Jamie’, the naughty rascal gets out of bed, picks up his magic torch and with his dog, Wordsworth, travels down a helter skelter into the magical world of Cuckoo Land. With 39 fantastic stories to watch, join Jamie and Wordsworth in all three series of their exciting adventures. Presented for the first time as a complete collection on DVD.

Jamie and the Magic Torch ran from 1976-1979 and was made by the Cosgrove Hall animation studios in Manchester, the studio that brought to us other classic shows such as Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, The Wind in the Willows, Chorlton and the Wheelies and The Bfg movie. Brian Truman who narrates the series also wrote it.

Jamie and Wordsworth have...

Exclusive: Disney has acquired remake rights to Quantum Hoops, the 2007 documentary that followed the 2006 Caltech basketball team that had 21 seasons and 245 conference games without a single win, routinely getting walloped by 60 points or more. Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld's Red Hour will produce a comedy based on the story of a group of brainiacs -- future political and industrial titans -- who tried to overcome a lack of athletic skills by getting an exiled Ncaa coach to lead their team to what seemed for two decades an impossible dream: one in the W column. The script will be written by Stan Chervin, who was the first writer to adapt Michael Lewis' Moneyball (Chervin emerged from an arbitration with story credit, while screen credit on the upcoming Brad Pitt film went to Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin.) Red Hour's Erica Steinberg brought in the project and will be executive producer along with Brian Truman,...

Landscape Entertainment has acquired the film rights to the graphic novel "Pretty, Baby, Machine," conceived by Clark Westerman and illustrated by Kody Chamberlain.

Landscape president Bob Cooper will produce, while the company's Brian Truman will oversee the project. Rodney Wilson and Westerman will exec produce.

"Pretty, Baby, Machine," first published in May, is a mystery thriller that takes place during Prohibition in 1933. Gangsters Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Machine Gun Kelly band together to take down reigning kingpin Al Capone.

" 'Pretty, Baby, Machine' is a fabulous story with compelling characters and stunningly beautiful graphics that we feel will resonate with audiences worldwide," Cooper said.

Westerman, repped by the Phoenix Organization, is a producer on the film adaptation of "I, Lucifer." Chamberlain illustrated "30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales," which Sony turned into a feature film last year.