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Monster House (2006 Film)
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Monster House
Released on October 28, 2006 by Columbia Pictures.

Produced by
Amblin Entertainment
Columbia-TriStar Imageworks

Notes
ITTL, Monster House is the first completely CGI film produced by Columbia-TriStar Imageworks, the special effects arm of CBS. The second will be Stuart Little 3, which will be released next summer.
- Open Season, which Columbia released IOTL, will instead be released Christmas Day by Luxor with animation produced by Dream Quest Images.​
 
Great!

And what's the difference between the original version and the American version of Tracy Beaker?
The only real differences in the American version of Tracy Beaker is that it takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania instead of Manchester, England, mainly to keep any blue collar backgrounds for the secondary or tertiary characters. Instead of an orphanage, Tracy lives in a foster home with multiple foster siblings. Instead of seeing Manchester United gear on a secondary character, you might see the black and gold of the Steelers, Pirates or Penguins.

Other than that, it's mainly just changes in certain words for things. Like for instance, a "flat" in Manchester would translate to an "apartment" in Pittsburgh.
https://www.theenglishisland.com/lessons/american-and-british-words-that-mean-the-same-thing/

Basically, the only changes made were cosmetic adjustments made to help the show translate better in North America. In Canada, the Paramount version of Tracy Beaker airs on YTV.
 
We'll great! But we will get to the movies of November, including 20th Century-Fox/Jerry Bruckheimer's Deja Vu, Disney's Santa Clause 3, Miramax 2.0's Breaking and Entering, Gramercy Pictures/Peacock Releasing's The Return, Universal/Peacock's Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix, Miramax 2.0's Bobby, Dimension Films' (OTL MGM made the film) Griffin & Phoenix, New Line Cinema/Luxor Pictures' The Prestige and Disney/Legendary's Bonkers 2.

But New Line Cinema will release two personal movies, founder Bob Shaye's The Last Mimzy in 2007 and studio head James Cameron's The Legend of Pandora (OTL title is Avatar) in 2009.
 
The only real differences in the American version of Tracy Beaker is that it takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania instead of Manchester, England, mainly to keep any blue collar backgrounds for the secondary or tertiary characters. Instead of an orphanage, Tracy lives in a foster home with multiple foster siblings. Instead of seeing Manchester United gear on a secondary character, you might see the black and gold of the Steelers, Pirates or Penguins.
Why?

Who are the foster siblings? Will Crash, Jackie, Justine Littlewood, Elaine and the Wellards be in the American version of the show?
Other than that, it's mainly just changes in certain words for things. Like for instance, a "flat" in Manchester would translate to an "apartment" in Pittsburgh.
https://www.theenglishisland.com/lessons/american-and-british-words-that-mean-the-same-thing/

Basically, the only changes made were cosmetic adjustments made to help the show translate better in North America. In Canada, the Paramount version of Tracy Beaker airs on YTV.
Ok, is it possible for the original version of the show to be imported? Perhaps, running on Odyssey?
71750.jpg

Monster House
Released on October 28, 2006 by Columbia Pictures.

Produced by
Amblin Entertainment
Columbia-TriStar Imageworks

Notes
ITTL, Monster House is the first completely CGI film produced by Columbia-TriStar Imageworks, the special effects arm of CBS. The second will be Stuart Little 3, which will be released next summer.
- Open Season, which Columbia released IOTL, will instead be released Christmas Day by Luxor with animation produced by Dream Quest Images.​
Cool, I haven't see this movie since I was little, must've be somewhere between 3 to 7 when Cartoon Network would probably used to air it...
 
Very cool! But can't wait for November 2006! For summer 2007, we will see the Mean Girls sequel from Paramount, Nancy Drew: Mean Girls 2 (OTL Warner Bros. made the film as Nancy Drew).
 
Very cool! But can't wait for November 2006! For summer 2007, we will see the Mean Girls sequel from Paramount, Nancy Drew: Mean Girls 2 (OTL Warner Bros. made the film as Nancy Drew).
It'll be the first time Nancy Drew has been adapted since the infamous Walter Lantz/Filmation co-production in the mid to late Seventies.
 
Some notes on the Big Nate Fifteenth Anniversary Revival:

- Scott Grimes reprises his role as the voice of Nate, having played the character on the original series back in '91. Grimes had previously been the voice of Theo on the George Lucas/Screen Gems series Theo and Gretchen three years earlier.
- Other than Scott Grimes returning as Nate, all other characters on the series have been recast.
- Creator Lincoln Peirce was hired straight out of high school by DiC, where he worked on the Madeline movie and series.
- In January of 1991, an NBC executive became aware of the Big Nate newspaper strip while on vacation and immediately ordered 26 episodes from Murakami Wolf Swenson to be produced at an accelerated schedule for a September '91 debut on the network's Saturday Morning lineup.
- Jeffrey Scott, who had written many Muppet Babies episodes for Hanna-Barbera, was hired by MWS and RKO Radio Pictures to be the headwriter for the original Big Nate.
- Also part of the writing staff was freelance screenwriter Linda Woolverton, who contributed to many SatAM series with multiple studios along with a few Fox Movietoon revival shorts before going on to greater success with Disney. It was she who scripted the 1991 commercial break bumpers in which Nate wears a peacock costume while using an oversized drumstick to play the 50's era NBC xylophone, accompanied with a voiceover by Mark Elliott.
- Merchandise for the original series included a tie-in with the Burger King Kids Club in February 1992.
- NBC/RKO Video released 12 volumes of the show on VHS from Spring '92 until Spring '94. Peacock plans to reissue these same volumes through Limited Run.

The copyright notice on Big Nate merchandise produced between '91 thru '95:
(c) [year] RKO Radio Pictures and Andrews McMeel Syndicate. All Rights Reserved
 
@WB18

In case you're wondering, the Big Nate newspaper strip was picked up by the Arizona Republic in March of 1992, five months after kids in Phoenix had been tuning in to NBC affiliate KPNX to catch the animated show.
 
71750.jpg

Monster House
Released on October 28, 2006 by Columbia Pictures.

Produced by
Amblin Entertainment
Columbia-TriStar Imageworks

Notes
ITTL, Monster House is the first completely CGI film produced by Columbia-TriStar Imageworks, the special effects arm of CBS. The second will be Stuart Little 3, which will be released next summer.
- Open Season, which Columbia released IOTL, will instead be released Christmas Day by Luxor with animation produced by Dream Quest Images.​
The two lads look like Rowley and Greg
 
Perfect job on the 15th anniversary of Big Nate! But Kevin Feige wanted a companion to the upcoming King Features universe, an adaptation of the Red Circle comics, starting with The Black Hood, for 2009 release, along with the Fawcett and Charlton superheroes. But Blue Beetle will going to be out Thanksgiving.
 
Perfect job on the 15th anniversary of Big Nate! But Kevin Feige wanted a companion to the upcoming King Features universe, an adaptation of the Red Circle comics, starting with The Black Hood, for 2009 release, along with the Fawcett and Charlton superheroes. But Blue Beetle will going to be out Thanksgiving.
Right now, a lot of industry insiders are making a pretty big deal on Peacock's investment in the King Features and Archie/Gemini universes and how that pretty much has turned up the heat on DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Eclipse, Malibu, etc. And not one installment of KFS or Archie/Gemini's cinematic threads have come out yet.

Marvel in particular is in a pickle, whether to keep the Dekkerverse continuing or start a whole new Canon. Meanwhile, they and DC are scrambling to see if they can switch production from animation to live action on at least half of the crossovers they have lined up for at least the next six or seven years.
 
Right now, a lot of industry insiders are making a pretty big deal on Peacock's investment in the King Features and Archie/Gemini universes and how that pretty much has turned up the heat on DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Eclipse, Malibu, etc. And not one installment of KFS or Archie/Gemini's cinematic threads have come out yet.

Marvel in particular is in a pickle, whether to keep the Dekkerverse continuing or start a whole new Canon. Meanwhile, they and DC are scrambling to see if they can switch production from animation to live action on at least half of the crossovers they have lined up for at least the next six or seven years.
Hold on wait a minute, Ecilpse still exists? What happened here?
 
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