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Kudos to Walden Media<\/a> on its lengthy profile<\/a> in this week’s Entertainment Weekly. Though not (yet) a household name, Walden is the company behind “The Chronicles of Narnia<\/a>” movie, as well as “Holes,” “Because of Winn-Dixie,” and the upcoming “Hoot” and “Charlotte’s Web.” EW, the arbiter of all things hip in Hollywood, offers a detailed look at the phenomenal success of this young company–a success, as the magazine says, that is “fueled by its exclusive focus on Hollywood’s least sexy genre<\/span>: the family film.<\/span>“
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Yes, the much-maligned, oft-mocked family flick is enjoying its moment in the sun. <\/span>Founded by two old friends, Walden’s strategy seems so simple that you (or at least I) would have assumed it’d been done by a million others before them: Ask children’s librarians and teachers what books they’d recommend, and then make high-quality films from those books. Done and done.
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