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Wanda Sykes and George Lopez are both getting their own talk shows in the next week.

Eugene Levy is one of the few comic actors in Hollywood whose voice is as recognizable as his face.

Paranormal Activity Despite being hyped as the "scariest movie of the 21st century" - with one quivering testimonial coming courtesy of none other than Steven Spielberg - Oren Peli's shoestring indie chiller Paranormal Activity is more profitably analyzed as a sly domestic f The Stepfather Lo and behold, this is not the feel-good family movie of ...

SINGAPORE: I did not have high hopes for the family comedy 'Imagine That' when the trailer depicted a hyperactive Eddie Murphy demanding and whining for a 'goo-ga' in the middle of the night.

Eugene Levy arrives at the premiere of 'Astro Boy' in Los Angeles on Oct. 19, 2009.

Eugene Levy says he relishes doing voice work for animated films such as "Astro Boy" because it requires him to stretch as an actor.

Catherine O'Hara arrives at the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter held at the Sunset Tower on February 22, 2009 in West Hollywood, California.

How lucky is Bruce Willis ? Not only did he go, seemingly overnight, from tending bar to starring in ABC's hit Moonlighting , marrying Demi Moore, and scoring a Top 10 single, but he also made the transition to movie megastardom -- and then survived the Great Action Hero Purge of the 1990s, jumping to smart indie features while the Stallones and ...

Genre: Family Comedy Directed by: Karey Kirkpatrick Starring: Eddie Murphy, Yara Shahidi, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari Parker, Martin Sheen, DeRay Davis There's a scene in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories where someone asks, "Why do all comedians turn out to be sentimental bores?" If you need an example of this, Eddie Murphy and Imagine That are ...

Eddie Murphy's latest movie is not worth paying to see. Gee, imagine that? Pun aside, Murphy's "Imagine That" is exactly the kind of family comedy that you would expect from him at this point in career - a tired, boring affair where you can count the amount of laughs on one hand.

When a friend suggested to Karey Kirkpatrick that he make his live-action directing debut with the Eddie Murphy vehicle Imagine That , Kirkpatrick says his first thought was "Oh, that's a bad idea for me." Not because he has anything against family-friendly movies-- he helped write the screenplay for movies like Charlotte's Web and The Spiderwick ...

It feels like I've already seen this movie four times, after witnessing the parade of commercials for other junk Over the Hedge 's characters are pimping.

Karey Kirkpatrick has been writing screenplays for about 22 years, and, he jokes, "about 18 of those have been spent putting voices in furry creatures' mouths." As the co-writer of such animated films as The Rescuers Down Under, Chicken Run , and Over the Hedge , Kirkpatrick has given voice to virtually every being in the animal kingdom.

"Imagine That" director Karey Kirkpatrick had a little more input on the movie's soundtrack than many directors might: He produced nine of the album's 11 tracks and performs on another.

The news avalanche is getting started on Disney's John Carter of Mars , as the production prepares to set up in Utah this fall, and Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins prepare for their starring roles in Wall-E director Andrew Stanton's adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs series.

IMAGINE THAT : Evan lives the hectic life of a financial advisor to the rich and prosperous in Denver.

"All You Need is Love" serves as the theme song for Imagine That the way "It Only Takes a Moment" did for Wall-E . When driven financial analyst Evan Danielson uses it to teach his 7-year-old daughter Olivia how to carry a tune, the scene sums up what Kirkpatrick thinks fathers and kids should do together: not act in perfect harmony, but raise a ...

Just because you're the director of an Eddie Murphy movie doesn't mean you're in charge.

In his latter-day career in family movies, Eddie Murphy has seen decidedly mixed results, but "Imagine That" is pretty much in his wheelhouse.

It's a name that would probably strike fear into the hearts of many directors. So, when Karey Kirkpatrick heard that a film he wanted to do was attached to the notorious Eddie Murphy, he had some concerns.