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“Full House Rewind,” PodCo’s upcoming rewatch podcast hosted by Dave Coulier, has set an initial lineup of guests and debuted a trailer. The first episode will premiere on July 21 at 9 a.m. Et.

The podcast will feature Coulier, who starred as Joey Gladstone in “Full House” and the reboot “Fuller House,” as he recounts each episode of the beloved ABC sitcom.

Among the guests confirmed to appear on “Full House Rewind” are John Stamos, who played Jesse Katsopolis in both “Full House” and “Fuller House”; Jeff Franklin, who created both series; Josh Peck, who played Ben in two episodes of “Fuller House”; Marla Sokoloff, who recurred as Gia Mahan in both series; actor, comedian and radio personality Adam Carolla; PodCo partner star of “Even Stevens” and “Kim Possible” Christy Carlson Romano; Mike Binder, who played Steve in an episode of “Full House” and directed “Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute...

Premiere Entertainment has acquired the international rights to family faith-based film “The Girl Who Believes in Miracles” after the film’s solid performance at the U.S. box office over Easter.

The Oklahoma-shot feature was written and directed by “Hannah Montana” co-creator Richard Correll and stars Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino (“The Mighty Aphrodite”); Austyn Johnson (“The Greatest Showman”) and celebrated voice actor Pete Coyote (“The Roosevelts: An Intimate History”).

The feature, co-written by G.M. Mercier, focuses on a child called Sara (Johnson) who achieves overnight fame when her prayers appear to start healing local townsfolk.

These miracles come at a cost however, as the toll of fame and the girl’s deteriorating physical condition force those close to her to take action.

Produced by Trailmaker Productions and Gerson Productions in association with film investors Stephen Hays and Peter Graham’s 120dB Films, the title was released via Atlas Distribution to a total of 1,333 U.

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(Rich Correll with the T-Rex prop from Jurassic Park.)

By Mark Cerulli

After 30+ years as a 007 collector, I understand collecting… how amassing items connected to a movie series or iconic character gets into the blood and forces you to disregard common sense when pursuing a must-have. Like most collectors, I have always been constrained by two factors – money and time. Now imagine a collector who isn’t bothered by either, who has a deep passion for horror and even deeper pockets to acquire almost anything available. Meet Richard “Rich” Correll!

A native Californian, Correll started his career as a child actor on Leave It to Beaver, practically growing up on the Universal lot. “Jerry Mathers is one of my best friends,” he notes. Rich found himself drawn to Universal’s Makeup Department where he became fascinated by the appliances and masks used in...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 25, 2014

Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95

Studio: Criterion

Harold Lloyd gets kittenish in The Freshman.

Harold Lloyd’s (Safety Last!) biggest box-office hit was the 1925 silent comedy classic The Freshman, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student.

Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman’s careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be it on the football field or at the Fall Frolic. But he gets a climactic chance to prove his mettle—and impress the sweet girl he loves—in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed.

The popular, crowd-pleasing movie directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor is a gleeful showcase for Lloyd’s slapstick brilliance and incandescent charm, and it’s accompanied here by a new orchestral score by Carl Davis (Napoleon).

Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo of The Freshman includes...

The guy who helped create “Hannah Montana” says he’s got no problems with Miley Cyrus telling people her alter ego is dead – but he admits he had a different method of death in mind for the former child star. Of course, Miley cracked the joke during her monologue on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend – saying, “I can give you an update on what [Hannah’s] been up to … she was murdered.”TMZ spoke with “Hannah” co-creator...

It’s understandable when someone doesn’t want to re-purchase a film he already owns on DVD, but the Criterion Collection makes it hard to resist by adding such outstanding bonus material. Many titles are also making their debut in the Blu-ray format. In the case of Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last!, I actually hosted its 2005 DVD debut as part of a Harold Lloyd collection from the now-defunct New Line Cinema label, and recorded a commentary track with Lloyd expert Rich Correll. Our conversation is revived on the new release, which adds three newly-restored Lloyd shorts (Take a Chance, Young Mr. Jazz, and His Royal Slyness) and a piece on Lloyd’s location work and visual effects featuring...

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By Raymond Benson

We expect nothing less than greatness from that Cadillac of DVD/Blu-Ray labels, The Criterion Collection, and this month’s releases do not disappoint. I’m betting that even hardcore Cinema Retro readers may not have seen these two brilliant classics—one a silent film from 1923, the other a British work of wonder from 1936—both containing jaw-dropping visuals that will amaze even the most cynical of cinema aficionados.

First up—Safety Last!, the film for which actor Harold Lloyd will be most remembered. Lloyd was often called “the third genius” (after Chaplin and Keaton), and his works were not readily available to Baby Boomers because he had refused to sell them to television at the low price he was offered. Lloyd always felt his films were worth more, and rightly so. This was a guy who made many more pictures than either Chaplin or Keaton and transitioned...

The timeless comic genius of Harold Lloyd shines through in Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor’s 1923 classic Safety Last!, one more silent film championed by the Criterion Collection folks. The indelible bookish, horn-rimmed glasses, straw-hat-wearing comedian show wonderfully how he earned the moniker “the King of Daredevil Comedy”. The “third genius” of the silent era (after Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton), stars in this Horatio Alger-style story of a country boy trying to make good in the big city.

The naive Boy (Harold Lloyd) travels on a train to the big city from the small town Great Bend, promising to send for his Girl (Mildred Davis, Lloyd’s real-life wife) after he has ‘made good’ with fame and fortune. In the opening sequence, he appears behind vertical bars – presumably imprisoning jail bars, but they are actually the train station’s gate. He becomes a low-paid, bookish-looking salesman in the...

I first saw Harold Lloyd's Safety Last! back in 2009. I'd made a list of the current IMDb Top 250 Films and it was the only one I had not yet seen. Problem was, at the time, it wasn't on Netflix and was only available as part of an $80+ boxset of Lloyd films. Fast forward four years later and you can buy a pristine, restored, feature-filled Blu-ray edition of the 1923 silent classic from Criterion and it's worth every penny. For those that read the site on a regular basis, I wrote up some brief thoughts on the film after seeing it for the first time four years ago in what was then only the third installment in my Sunday morning "What I Watched" column, which has grown considerably since. I mention this because my first time viewing Safety Last! was not on DVD or Blu-ray, but by finding it on TCM's...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 18, 2013

Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95

Studio: Criterion

Harold Lloyd clocks his rise to success in Safety Last!

Silent movie star Harold Lloyd lets loose with a torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts in the 1923 comedy classic Safety Last!.

In the film, Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success.

Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, Safety Last! is the first Harold Lloyd film to be released by the Criterion Collection since the Lloyd catalog was acquired by Janus Films in 2012. Janus Films will tour Safety Last! theatrically starting in April to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of its Release,...

 The co-creators of Disney's hit TV show 'Hannah Montana' are taking legal action alleging they are entitled to a share of the profits from the multi-million dollar teen franchise.Barry O'Brien and Richard Correll jointly created the show with screenwriter-producer Michael Poryes who filed a lawsuit in 2008, claiming bosses at multi-media giant Disney owe him royalties for 'Hannah Montana: The Movie', as well as branded merchandise, reports tmz.com.Now his colleagues have followed his lead, filing their own suit against Disney chiefs, alleging they are contractually entitled to proceeds from the franchise.The legal papers also include allegations that Correll was dismissed from his role on the show after he complained to his union, the Writer's Guild of America, about royalty payments.

London, April 12 – The co-creators of Disney’s hit TV show ‘Hannah Montana’ are taking legal action alleging they are entitled to a share of the profits from the multi-million dollar teen franchise.

Barry O’Brien and Richard Correll jointly created the show with screenwriter-producer Michael Poryes who filed a lawsuit in 2008, claiming bosses at multi-media giant Disney owe him royalties for ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’, as well as branded merchandise, reports tmz.com.

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The co-creators of Miley Cyrus' hit TV show Hannah Montana are taking legal action alleging they are entitled to a share of the profits from the multi-million dollar teen franchise.

Barry O'Brien and Richard Correll jointly created the show with screenwriter/producer Michael Poryes.

Poryes filed a lawsuit in 2008, claiming bosses at multi-media giant Disney owe him royalties for Hannah Montana: The Movie, as well as branded merchandise.

And now his colleagues have followed his lead, filing their own suit against Disney chiefs, alleging they are contractually entitled to proceeds from the Hannah Montana franchise

The legal papers also include allegations that Correll was dismissed from his role on the show after he complained to his union, the Writer's Guild of America, about royalty payments, according to TMZ.com.

Washington, April 10 – The Disney channel has been sued by creators of the Miley Cyrus-starrer TV show Hannah Montana for 5 million dollars.

According to owners of the hit TV show Barry O’Brien and Richard Correll, the reason for suing the channel is that the creators of the show were not rewarded with their deserving bonuses, reports RadarOnline.com.

According to Barry and Richard they should be given ” 7.5 percent in contingent bonus compensation.”

The duo also complains that they were never given books for maintaining proper accounts,.

Two of the three co-creators of Miley Cyrus' " Hannah Montana" show claim they are victims of a vicious mouse attack. Barry O'Brien and Richard Correll claim they were contractually entitled to a piece of the "Hannah" pie, but in the bonus department… Read more...

By Brent Lang 

"Hannah Montana" co-creators Barry O'Brien and Richard Correll are suing the Walt Disney Company for $5 million in profits.

In addition to alleging that Disney failed to pay them percentage-based bonuses from the hit children's program, Correll says in a suit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court that the studio "blackballed" him from directing episodes of other series.

The Emmy nominee has directed 179 television episodes for Dis...

"Hannah Montana" will shine on.

Disney Channel has closed a deal for a fourth season of the blockbuster series starring Miley Cyrus.

Additionally, the cable channel has ordered a second season of its breakout new comedy series, "Sonny With a Chance," and has tapped Jeffrey Hornaday, choreographer of such movies as "Flashdance" and "A Chorus Line," to direct and choreograph the fourth "High School Musical" movie.

There had been questions about whether Cyrus would return to the series that made her a global star, with the teen actress-singer recently expressing her intention to continue her small-screen duties as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana for one more year.

As part of the deal, Cyrus will get a long hiatus to work on the feature "The Last Song," with production on the fourth season of "Hannah Montana" slated to begin next year. (Filming on the show's third season wraps this week.)

The series will change settings next season,...

Chicago – This 11-image slideshow contains official press images and schedule information for the recently announced slate of films to be released by Walt Disney Pictures in 2009 including new films starring Isla Fisher, Bruce Willis, Robin Williams, John Travolta, Ryan Reynolds, Josh Duhamel, and the newest Pixar film.

These 2009 Walt Disney Pictures include “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” “Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience,” “Race to Witch Mountain,” “Hannah Montana The Movie,” “earth,” “Up,” “The Proposal,” “G-Force,” “When in Rome,” “Surrogates,” “Toy Story in Disney Digital 3-D,” “Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” “Old Dogs,” and “The Princess and the Frog”. Not all films have images released, but release details and dates were announced for the entire 2009 slate.

The release dates, cast lists, and filmmaker information for these Walt Disney Pictures films can be found below in chronological order, followed by a slideshow of available images.

“Confessions of a Shopaholic”

Cast: Isla Fisher,...