Post by dave on Jul 15, 2013 8:20:06 GMT -5
Just when you thought they'd driven a stake through the heart and buried the last dog movie ....
DreamWorks Animation grooming Lassie for a return to the spotlight
Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation plans to put the charismatic collie Lassie, still the world's most famous dog, back in the public eye.
By Richard Verrier
July 15, 2013, 5:00 a.m.
She's an American icon with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
But it has been four decades since she had her own prime-time TV show, on which her courage, loyalty and knack for saving the day endeared her to millions of baby boomers.
Can Lassie really come home again?
A Hollywood studio is hoping so. DreamWorks Animation, creator of the "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda" movies, plans to put the charismatic collie back in the public eye, along with Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and other decades-old characters.
Lassie, who will celebrate her 75th anniversary in December, is still the world's most famous dog. Introduced in a 1938 Saturday Evening Post short story, and then popularized in a bestselling novel, the fictional dog became the star of the 1943 motion picture "Lassie Come Home," opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall, after catching the eye of MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer. Six more films followed.
Continued:
www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-lassie-comes-home-20130715,0,6353448.story
What next? The Lone Ranger? This is what happens when bankers take over Hollywood.
DreamWorks Animation grooming Lassie for a return to the spotlight
Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation plans to put the charismatic collie Lassie, still the world's most famous dog, back in the public eye.
By Richard Verrier
July 15, 2013, 5:00 a.m.
She's an American icon with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
But it has been four decades since she had her own prime-time TV show, on which her courage, loyalty and knack for saving the day endeared her to millions of baby boomers.
Can Lassie really come home again?
A Hollywood studio is hoping so. DreamWorks Animation, creator of the "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda" movies, plans to put the charismatic collie back in the public eye, along with Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and other decades-old characters.
Lassie, who will celebrate her 75th anniversary in December, is still the world's most famous dog. Introduced in a 1938 Saturday Evening Post short story, and then popularized in a bestselling novel, the fictional dog became the star of the 1943 motion picture "Lassie Come Home," opposite Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall, after catching the eye of MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer. Six more films followed.
Continued:
www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-lassie-comes-home-20130715,0,6353448.story
What next? The Lone Ranger? This is what happens when bankers take over Hollywood.