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American rap musician Cardi B has joined the voice cast of upcoming animation film “Baby Shark’s Big Movie!”

The film is the first feature-length spin-off from “Baby Shark’s Big Show!,” a pre-school series which began in 2021 on Nickelodeon-branded channels and platforms and is now in its second season.

The show is co-produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Seoul, Korea-based The Pinkfong Company and directed by Alan Foreman. Its narrative follows Baby Shark and his family as they move to Chomp City, the big city of sharks.

Cardi B is joined by several members of her own family. While the multi-platinum icon portrays Sharki B, her partner and fellow musician Offset gives voice to Offshark, while children Kulture plays Kulture Sharki and Wave as Wavey Shark.

The film is set to premiere later this year exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S and shortly after on Paramount+ internationally where the service is available.

Embark on an e-norm-ous family adventure when Norm of the North: Family Vacation arrives on Digital, DVD, and On Demand Feburary 25 from Lionsgate. From writers Alec Sokolow, Elie Choufany (TV’s “Arabs in Space”), and director Anthony Bell, Norm of the North: Family Vacation stars Andy Toth, Brian Drummond, Cole Howard, James Higuchi, Jennifer Cameron, Jonathan Holmes, Lee Tockar, Lisa Durupt, and Paul Dobson. Norm of the North: Family Vacation will be available on DVD for the suggested retail price of $14.98.

Overwhelmed by his Kingly duties, Norm struggles to make time for both his kingdom and his family. But when his crown is mysteriously stolen in the dead of the night, Norm must embark on an epic journey — disguised as a family vacation. Norm sets out to track down the thief and find his crown, and learns the valuable lesson that by working together as a family, nothing is impossible.

In 2013 Hasbro Studios did a pretty risky thing with one of their biggest franchises. They decided to take My Little Ponies and humanize them in a movie called My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. In that film one of the characters, Twilight Sparkles, discovers a mirror which allows her to travel into an alternate universe in order to recover a crown that was stolen from the Crystal Empire. Upon her arrival she is horrified to learn that she has turned into a human. This was a risky move for Hasbro because being magical ponies was their schtick.

Though there isn’t any four-legged characters walking around, I’m assuming it was a hit with the My Little Pony community because Hasbro decided to bring the Esquestria Girls back a few more times since. Now the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls have an all-new show which just premiered on Youtube. I had...

So apparently there's going to be a new My Little Pony movie in the works, based on the popular Hasbro toys (and, more specifically, the most recent animated incarnation). This will be the third My Little Pony feature film, following the original 1986 version, and the weird DeviantArt come to life My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. And so far, besides the main core cast of Tara Strong, Ashleigh Ball,... Read More...

Hasbro has announced that the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic animated series has been renewed for a seventh season. The show will return to in Spring 2017. In addition, Hasbro has also announced that My Little Pony: Equestria Girls specials will return for three new specials in 2017.Hasbro Announces My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 7 and New My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Specials for 2017Pawtucket, R.I., Oct 18, 2016 – Today Hasbro, Inc. (Nasdaq:has), a global play and entertainment company, announces the 2017 return of two of the company’s most popular series – My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls.The franchise’s iconic ‘Mane 6’ ponies will experience their most exciting adventures yet in Season 7 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The series will return...

This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of October 29th, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.

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These days, it seems that every single licensed property imaginable is getting its own feature film treatment . and now My Little Pony is the latest title that can be added to the list. But that.s not all. Not only has Lionsgate announced that an animated movie is in development, but they have also revealed a special brand new member of the cast: Kristin Chenoweth. Lionsgate announced the project through the studio.s press site, citing a deal made between the studio and Hasbro . the toy company that produces the My Little Pony line. Meghan McCarthy, who has been a part of the franchise since she wrote 2013.s My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, is penning the screenplay . and Jayson Theissen (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is directing If fans are wondering who exactly Kristin Chenoweth will be playing, the answer is a role that you.re unfamiliar with. The...

In addition to getting their Blu-ray horror and sci-fi fix from Shout! Factory's booth #4118 at this year's Comic-Con, fans can also experience exciting future Scream Factory title announcements at the "Inside Look" panel taking place Friday, July 10th at 7:30pm in Room 24Abc:

Press Release: "Now a mainstay at San Diego Comic-Con International, Shout! Factory returns to the convention in 2015 with a dynamic line-up sure to delight pop culture enthusiasts of all ages. Shout! Factory is a leading multi-platform entertainment company, and its Comic-Con offerings, which span its popular Shout! Factory, Shout! Kids and Scream Factory™ brands, are sure to please devoted fans of popular home entertainment properties, collectors and pop culture enthusiasts alike. This year, Shout! Factory unveils an exciting panel event, new home entertainment products, Comic-Con exclusives and engaging booth activities. Fans and attendees are invited to join in on the excitement at the Shout! Factory...

2014 has been a good year for redemption-through-music stories, with high points such as God Help the Girl and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls — Rainbow Rocks and lesser efforts such as Rudderless.

Rita Merson's Always Woodstock lands somewhere higher up on the list, and not just because any film justifies its existence when it gives Katey Sagal a chance to sing. After a very bad day in which she gets fired from her position as a burgeoning executive at a major New York record label — this right before discovering her fiancé with another woman — twentysomething Catherine (Allison Miller) decides to move upstate to the family home in Woodstock.

She intends to follow in her late parents' footsteps and become a songwrit...

Hasbro Studios has hired Joe Ballarini (“Dance of the Dead”) to write a “My Little Pony” movie, TheWrap has learned. Hasbro will produce the animated feature under its Allspark Pictures label, which allows the company to self-finance or co-finance projects. Allspark's first release will be “Jem and the Holograms,” which was co-financed by Universal and co-produced by Blumhouse. Also read: ‘My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic’ Renewed for Season 5 Megan McCarthy will co-executive produce the full-length feature, having written for Discovery Family's popular TV series “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.” McCarthy was also involved in the “My Little Pony: Equestria Girls” movies,...

Hasbro has greenlighted an animated film about its My Little Pony toy line, producing and financing the movie in-house via its Allspark Pictures film label, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Joe Ballarini (Ice Age: Continental Drift) is writing the script for a planned 2017 release. Read more 'My Little Pony: Equestria Girls — Rainbow Rocks': Film Review The My Little Pony movie comes on the heels of Hasbro's Jem and the Holograms film, also based on a popular 1980s toy line, which Universal Pictures is set to release in theaters on Oct. 23, 2015. The My Little Pony line

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Hasbro Studios has announced that they will be developing a feature film version of their classic franchise My Little Pony. The movie will be developed, produced, and financed in house, through a new production company they set up called Allspark Pictures. They are also producing Jon M. Chu's live-action adaptation of Jem and the Holograms through this company as well.

The studio has hired Joe Ballarini (Ice Age: Continental Drift) to write the script for My Little Pony, and it will be executive produced by Megan McCarthy, who produces and has written for the series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and the straight-to-home video My Little Pony: Equestria Girls films.

Stephen Davis, president of Hasbro Studios, says they are looking to release the film “on the broadest possible number of screens,” and that they are “very excited about the potential of that movie.”

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Here's some news that's going to make a lot of little girls and grown men very happy – My Little Pony is headed to the big screen. Hasbro is developing an animated film that's set to hit theaters in 2017.

The toy company will produce and finance My Little Pony in-house. Hasbro is in discussion with studios to help release the animated feature on the most possible number of screens.

The script is being written by Joe Ballarini (Atlantis 7), and Megan McCarthy, who produced and has written for the series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and straight-to-homevideo My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, film will serve as co-executive producer on the movie.

Stephen Davis, president of Hasbro Studios and global entertainment and licensing for Hasbro Inc. told Variety that the company is very excited about the potential of said movie.

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The peculiar documentary A Brony Tale showed that there's plenty of surprising fans of the Hasbro toyline and animated series My Little Pony, but beyond that, the brand is still something that plenty of young kids adore too. That's what Hasbro Studios has just announced that they're bringing a My Little Pony feature film to theaters in 2017. The project hails from Allspark Pictures, who is launching their feature film venture with the adaptation of Jem and the Holograms hitting theaters in October of 2015. Hasbro will produce and finance the film in-house with the script by Ice Age: Continental Drift scribe Joe Ballarini. Variety also says Megan McCarthy, producer and writer of the animated series "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,” as well as the home video releases "My Little Pony: Equestria Girls," is also serving as co-executive producer. My Little Pony has enjoyed a lot of success in recent years...

Variety reports Hasbro Studios is moving forward with a My Little Pony movie. The film, which will be written by Joe Ballarini (Ice Age: Continental Drift), is scheduled for a 2017 release. As toys, My Little Ponies were first introduced in 1983. Since, they've gone through many incarnations on TV and direct-to-video movies; most recently, they can be seen in the very popular My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic series. Though 2013's My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and 2014's Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks had very limited theatrical runs, this upcoming feature would be the franchise's first wide release. So if you see a bearded man crying while wearing a colorful wig with a horn sticking out of it, you'll know.

Last year's My Little Pony: Equestria Girls often felt like a rewrite of the flawed pilot episode of the Pony series Friendship Is Magic, but it was merely setting the stage for Jayson Thiessen and Ishi Rudell's far superior My Little Pony: Equestria Girls — Rainbow Rocks.

In the mirror universe populated by the ponies' human counterparts, three evil girls arrive at Canterlot High, spreading dark magic and discontent leading up to the school's musical showcase. Lacking in appreciable magic themselves, the Mane Five (Ashleigh Ball, Andrea Libman, and Tabitha St. Germain) and reformed villain Sunset Shimmer (Rebecca Shoichet) summon Twilight Sparkle (Tara Strong) to cross back from the pony realm of Equestria and save the biped world.

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Johnny Darrell's animated Slugterra: Return of the Elementals is a 63-minute episode of the Disney Xd series Slugterra, and little besides.

It makes no attempt to distinguish itself as a feature film, going so far as to recycle the show's opening credits and tacking on "Return of the Elementals" as an episode title. (This is presumably no problem for the preteen boys Slugterra is marketed toward, though it's an interesting contrast with last year's feature film My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, which respected its preteen-girl target demographic enough to be an actual movie and not just a retread of its source series.) After the opening credits and flashback-heavy exposition, series protagonist Eli (Sam Vincent) and his team of heroes must find the f...

What time is it? It’s Thursday, so it must be time for Tweeks!

The Tweeks are back, reviewing the Adventure Time Vol. 1 Mathematical Ed. by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb, published by kaBOOM! Take a look!

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How distinctly we remember, on the day before November; With the gaily costumed children wanting candy at the door. Eagerly we wished the morrow;—vainly we had sought to borrow From our comics breaks from sorrow—and we found the book Lenore. Now the rare and radiant maidens called the Tweeks review Lenore— Posted here for evermore.

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This week the Tweeks give us a sneak peek of their Halloween costumes as Anya shows how she made her Katniss Everdeen costume.

As for Maddy’s costume, it’s a surprise you’ll have to watch til the end to see what she feels is scarier than clown zombies…

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This week the Tweeks give us their take on the show they’ve been looking forward to this fall, as they fall down the rabbit hole and discuss Once Upon A Time In Wonderland, ABC’s new spin-off of the hit show (and Tweeks fave) Once Upon A Time.

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This week on Tweeks, we have My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, discussed as only twin geeks Anya and Maddy Ernst can do so! Watch and learn about how ponies can be transformed into human girls, and logical inconsistencies so obvious that eleven-year-olds can spot them!

Should you bet on these ponygirls? Watch their review and find out!

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The Lone Ranger limps into town, seven films enjoy £1m-plus weekends – and Despicable Me 2 is 2013's biggest film so far

Three kings

Just £100,000 separates the three films battling for the top spot in the weekend chart, with Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa edging out the competition to claim bragging rights. Literal bragging on this occasion, with distributor StudioCanal releasing the following statement from the North Norfolk Digital DJ: "Now is not a time for gloating or celebration, more a time for healing old wounds, a time to say: 'Let us join together in thanks that I am No 1 at the box office.' Hallelujah."

The comedy took £2.18m including £744,000 in Wednesday/Thursday previews, just ahead of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, with £2.14m including £861,000 in previews. However, it's the third-placed title – Grown Ups 2 – that won the battle over the Friday-to-Sunday weekend period, with £2.08m, including just £421,000 in previews.

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The Bronies are going to be so happy!! Shout! Factory and Hasbro Studios are expanding their relationship with a new multiyear agreement unveiled Tuesday that includes home entertainment distribution of five My Little Pony animated family adventures. The deal, coming days after Shout! released a new direct-to-dvd title, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – a big hit at retail – also includes recent TV seasons of Hasbro’s animated Transformers. Many of these titles have been out-of-print or unavailable in the home entertainment marketplace. Story: Hub Network Sets 'My Little Pony Equestria Girls' Premiere For the uninitiated,

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Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week

"The Place Beyond the Pines"

What's It About? In "A Place Beyond the Pines" Derek Cianfrance ("Blue Valentine") weaves together three vignettes starring Ryan Gosling as a bleach blonde, motorcycle-riding bank robber, Eva Mendes as a tough single mother, and Bradley Cooper as a conflicted cop. The first part of the film follows Luke (Gosling) as he robs banks to support his unexpected child and to win back the mother Romina (Mendes). Halfway through "Pines" breaks off to tell the story of Avery (Cooper), a wounded cop who discovers corruption in his department.

Why We're In: While "Pines" breaks off suddenly in various directions, the film's audacious screenplay and structure are what make it so powerful and compelling. Cianfrance's drama is one of novelistic proportions and definitely worth its long running time.

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To me, Bumblebee will always be a Volkswagen Beetle.

That’s how it was for countless children who grew up watching and playing with Transformers in the early 1980s. Yeah, the Beetle isn’t as badass as most cars. It’s small, goofy, and cute — not very powerful. But the same was true of the kids who loved him, 6-to-10 year-olds who longed to prove, like that little battling ‘bot, that they could be brave and strong like the big ones around them.

When Michael Bay’s big-screen smash-and-grab blockbuster Transformers came out in 2007, the characters I loved as a boy were all back,...

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That was followed by Frozen, Disney's Christmas cartoon; it's a (very loose) adaptation of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. Then, biggest of all, the return of Ron Burgundy in Anchorman: The Legend Continues. We said it was kind of a big deal, and it is.

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Everyone's favourite gang of magical nylon-haired quadrupeds pursue a bad pony through a magic mirror to Earth where they, er, become normal Us girls. Pass the booze, let's get started.

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Here's some good news if you're a child or a nostalgist or one of those slightly sinister brony people: there's going to be a new My Little Pony movie.

Yes, for the first time since the 1986 Danny DeVito vehicle My Little Pony: The Movie, everyone's favourite gang of magical, friendship-loving, slightly anthropomorphic, nylon-haired plastic horses are back on the big screen in a new outing entitled My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. Obviously this is big news, so let's waste no time in inspecting the new My Little Pony: Equestria Girls trailer for traces of magic and wonder.

Now, the important thing is that you just let your eyes relax.

Treating her little girl to a day out, Alessandra Ambrosio and Anja attended the premiere of "My Little Pony: Equestria Girls" on Saturday (June 15) at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Dressed in a pale pink sleeveless frock, the Victoria's Secret Angel and her darling mini me posed in front of the Regal Cinemas before heading inside to catch the show.

The animated feature follows pony Twilight Sparkle who travels into an alternate universe in order to recover a crown that was stolen from the Crystal Empire. Upon her arrival she is horrified to learn that she has turned into a human.

Voiced by Tara Strong and Ashleigh Ball "My Little Pony: Equestria Girls" proves the magic of friendship never changes.

Bronies unite! My Little Pony: Equestria Girls is coming to movie theaters June 16!

Sure, we may be in the middle of the summer blockbuster season, but that doesn't mean we won't get some counter-programming to all the superheroes and CGI nonsense. Twlight Sparkle is here to save your summer!

My Little Pony: Equestra Girls will play in limited release at theaters nationwide beginning June 16, with a DVD release in the near future. Here's the trailer to get you all worked up:

Here are the details on the film, in this press release straight from Hasbro Studios:

Screenvision has teamed up with Hasbro Studios and Shout! Factory to bring the full-length feature, My Little Pony Equestria Girls to cinemas across the U.S. and Canada beginning June 16. Information on listings and links to book tickets can be found at: www.Mlpeg.com "We are so pleased to partner with...