Oct 30 2009 Day Care is Going to the Dogs! 'Doggy Day Care' Being Made

Excited about Toy Story 3 and its tale of toys that take on personalities when left alone in a daycare center? Want to see that same premise with dogs instead of toys? No? You'd rather suffocate in shit? Well, regardless:

DreamWorks has snapped up Laurie Craig's comedy pitch "Doggy Day Care."

Based on a story by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Julie Goldstein and Craig, the project, set in a dog day care, concerns what really happens when dogs get together without human supervision.

Above, an IWS exclusive, is the official poster for the film. I know, it's really weird Dreamworks would make the poster so early after buying the script, and even weirder they'd just assume Eddie Murphy would play the hapless doggy day care owner in a part that looks eerily similar to his Daddy Day Care role, but that's just the way it is.

DreamWorks snaps up 'Doggy' [Variety]

Jul 1 2009 'Santa Buddies' Trailer: Sports Enthusiast Dogs on the Hunt for Dog Santa!

Air Bud's speech-capable, eternally-youthful stereotype-based scions are back for another adventure, and this time they're straying even farther from the innate athleticism that made their family such a popular target for dognappers. This time they're on the search for Santa Paws! Yes, "Paws"! The Santa Claus that has paws! Because it's a dog!

I'm not really sure if this concept is more or less absurd than when the talking puppies went to space:

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Dec 1 2008 'Space Buddies' Takes Air Bud to Next Level (Space)

As a bit of an Air Bud scholar, let me catch everyone up: since the original Air Bud, everyone's favorite basketball-playing dog has learned he also has the ability to play at least four other sports at the level of a pro athlete (often actually playing in professional leagues, because no one thought to make rules against non-human players), stopped a jewel heist, and spawned a littler of equally-athletic puppies. In the current Bud chronology, the offspring have aged to adulthood, decided to each specialize in one sport, and have been kidnapped by crooks and their trained raccoon (Air himself would later liberate his scions).

But prior to that unfortunate but ultimately failed kidnapping, the puppies had an interesting adolescence: apparently, as this trailer for Space Buddies tells it, they were astronauts at one point, and walked on the moon, and could talk, because who else would you want exploring space but our nation's greatest athletic, partially-sentient dogs? This is so insane:

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Oct 7 2008 A Grid Detailing How Money Has Been Flushed Down the Toilet

I was just looking at Box Office Mojo, seeing if Get Smart really made enough to warrant a sequel (sadly, it did), and I noticed a link to the above chart on the front page. Is this depressing to anyone else? Just that Disney alone has made enough talking dog movies to warrant a comparison grid is bad, but seeing exactly how much people have paid into this detestable genre is vomit in my face holes. I mean, just the idea that talking dogs in a movie is not a bizarre anomaly but an entire genre, that's awful. But dogs playing human sports is a separate genre from that! Those are two individual things that, as a society, we've decided we want to see repeatedly. Forget drama, comedy, romance--we don't need them. Let's just find more things for dogs to do unexpectedly. Dogs doing construction? Driving bulldozers, mixing concrete? Have we done that yet? Let's do that then. Then let's make a grid detailing exactly which dog construction movies made the most money, and let's stop making any more entertainment.