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...DreamWorks' Monsters vs Aliens would be among the year's top-grossing pictures, but who saw Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs coming? The success of Meatballs, G-Force and Where the Wild Things Are underlines the movie industry's hope that in every jaded teen or wizened adult there's an inner child whose sense of wonder and spending money are waiting to be tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astro Boy: Sweet Sci-Fi for Your Inner Child | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...guys with beards" and send them to his New York station. The punch line: "And you know what I'm gonna send you? A postcard from Puerto Rico." For that he got suspended. He said that the kids were hipper than his bosses: many sent him Monopoly money. One adult enclosed a few dollars and wrote: "Now go to Puerto Rico." (See an excerpt from Richard Zoglin's book Comedy at the Edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to the Pieman: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009 | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...turn into a bat and stuff?” wonders starry-eyed Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia), the newest vampire-adolescent to hop aboard the young-adult bloodsucker bandwagon. “No,” replies his vampire mentor, the cloaked and mysterious Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly), “that’s bullshit.” This is not the only instance in Paul Weitz’s new film, “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant,” in which Crepsley correctly associates his young apprentice with tedium, puerility...

Author: By Alex E. Traub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Halloween's resilience in the face of a recession would seem to make some sense. It's relatively cheap fun, and parents aren't about to steal candy from their babies by grounding trick-or-treating. The kiddies, however, aren't driving the growth. "Sales of adult items are surprisingly strong," says Nick Pardasani, CEO of costumes4less.com, an online retailer. "Children's costumes used to dominate. Now it's about half and half." Pardasani says his sales are up 40% this year. Michael Jackson, Bernie Madoff and Kate Gosselin outfits are flying off the shelves, according to Spirit Halloween. (Read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halloween: One Holiday Not Scared by Recession | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...Nightlight” is the Lampoon’s spin on the awkward-girl-meets-dreamy-vampire series created by Stephanie Meyer that has taken the tween, teen, and even some of the adult market by storm...

Author: By EESHA D. DAVE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revamping Vampires | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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