Chicken Little

48
Metascore
2005
1 Hr 21 Mins
Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
G

When a "piece of the sky" falls on a well-intentioned chicken's head, he assumes that his world's coming crashing down. Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken. When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day?

48
Metascore
2005
1 Hr 21 Mins
Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
G

Idol's "Chicken Little" Gets Plucked

Chicken Little ran out of cluck, I guess you could say. (OK, that's it for the nickname jokes.) Last week on Fox's American Idol (Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8 pm/ET), no amount of cooing from Paula could save Kevin Covais' goose, as the little-too-adorable 16-year-old sang his final song, a rendition of this reporter's wedding song, "When I Fall in Love" (not that I hold it against him). If anything, the extrication from the spotlight might — someday — let Kevin's adopted moniker fade away, not that he minded it much. "I'm loving it," he told TVGuide.com the morning after his ouster, "because I'm a fun-loving guy and I enjoy that type of stuff. I'm sarcastic and witty, I have a sense of humor, so I really appreciate it. And it's nothing agains

Tue, Mar 28, 2006

AT THE MOVIES

John Travolta and Tim Allen are in talks to star in Wild Hogs, a Disney comedy about middle-aged biker wannabes who, while on an open-road folly, butt heads with Hell's Angels.... The scribes behind Chicken Little are now at work on a live-action comedy, The Missing Link, which is pegged as a "monkey spy adventure in the vein of The Bourne Identity." Um, OK.

Fri, Jan 6, 2006

CHICKEN RUNS

Chicken Little fended off a string of newcomers — including the new Jennifer Aniston thriller, Derailed — to hold on to the top spot at the box office for the second consecutive weekend. Dipping a minuscule 20 percent, Chicken grossed $32 million to bring its cumulative haul to $80.8 million. The sci-fi fantasy Zathura debuted at No. 2 with $14 million, followed by Derailed (No. 3 with $12.8 million) and 50 Cent's semiautobiographical drama Get Rich or Die Tryin' (No. 4 with $12.5 million). Overall receipts were down 15 percent from the same weekend last year.

Mon, Nov 14, 2005