EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has adopted Clifford The Big Red Dog, after Universal Pictures put the pooch to the curb. Paramount sparked to a pitch by Justin Malen, who’ll write the script for a film that will be a live-action/CG hybrid. Universal had developed it for years, and even once dated the picture for…

UPDATED, 6:05 PM: Universal Pictures has unveiled a new title for Michelle Darnell, Melissa McCarthy’s follow-up to the summer hit Spy. The new comedy, about a titan of industry who is busted for insider trading and tries to rebrand herself after prison, now is known as The Boss. The pic keeps its April 8 release…

Norman Bridwell, creator of the beloved children’s book character Clifford the Big Red Dog, has died. He was 86. Scholastic Trade Book Publishing said the author and illustrator died Friday on Martha’s Vineyard. "Norman Bridwell's books about Clifford, childhood's most loveable dog, could only have been written by a…

The studio has dated its adaptation of the best-selling children’s books that spawned a PBS series. The live-action/animated 3D pic Clifford The Big Red Dog has fetched an April 8, 2016, release slot. Scholastic Media’s Deborah Forte will produce and Matt Lopez (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the just-announced The Day The…