Nickelodeon Australia has announced six animated short films will hit its network over the course of 2009.  The animated movies will air during the first half of the year, between now and July.

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For the rest of January and all of February, PBS Kids Goes To The Movies will feature episodes of Curious George, Martha Speaks and a music video from PBS Kids’ SteveSongs.  Kidtoons , a family-friendly matinee movie program, will be offering these showings at participating Kidtoons theaters.  Check out the locations and show times on their site, here: www.kidtoonfilms.com.

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Bolt had yet another strong weekend in the theaters.  It was not as large as its first or second weekend, but still impressive enough to finish up in third place overall — another $10 million dollars to …dogpile on!  Not bad for Disney’s latest super hero!

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Bolt, Disney’s super dog movie, continues to do well in theaters.  While it opened in third place, it made an impressive $26.2 million dollars in it’s opening weekend.  Even more impressive is that it made $26.5 million dollars in it’s second weekend, a few days ago!  Not many movies go up!  With the third weekend just a few days away, who knows how high it could soar!  Let’s all go see the film and support animation!!!

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Sure, you can use it to record shows.  It’s great!  No tapes, no mess.  Soon, TiVo will be able to provide footage instead of just recording it.  The company plans on making a number of Disney’s cartoon movies available to users of the service.  As a subscriber, all you’d have to do is order the film through the TiVo box, and it’s yours.  It is not yet known which movies will be available, and in what order, but you know that info is coming soon — and you REALLY know that we’ll have it here for you!

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