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The film company behind the adaption of The Chronicles of Narnia is being honored by the AAP. For its educational efforts, and for raising the awareness of various children’s titles by turning them into movies, Walden Media is receiving the 2009 AAP Honors award.

The company was founded in 1999 and has made films based on a number of iconic children’s titles – including Holes, Because of Winn-Dixie and Bridge to Terabithia – while establishing a significant educational outreach program in the process. Walden’s president, Michael Flaherty, will be presented with the honor at the AAP’s Annual Meeting in New York on March 11.

Congratulations, Walden Media!

Margulies Perruzzi Architects (formerly Margulies & Associates) announced that it has completed the design of a 5,000 square foot office in Burlington, Massachusetts for Walden Media, the film studio behind “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “Journey to the Center of the Earth.”
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Cary Granat is leaving Walden Media, the company he co-founded. In a decision that both Granat and Walden say was mutual, Granat ceases to be co-CEO of the company that he formed for Phil Anschutz to generate educational family films and books. Michael Bostick, who came aboard as co-CEO of Walden earlier this year, will now oversee the company’s creative vision.

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Sister screenwriters Carley and Chelsea Steiner have sold “Tough Cookies,” a family-comedy spec script, to Walden Media.

The story centers on a deadbeat dad ordered by a judge to form a Girl Scout troop with his rebel daughter and her friends. The troop uses its unconventional ways to compete against snobbish rivals at the National Scout Rally.

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Congratulations to Heather Johnson Phillips, the new Marketing VP of Walden Media.

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Walden Media is becoming a publisher, partnering with HarperCollins Children’s Books to launch Walden Pond Press.

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Veteran exec Michael Bostick has been named Co-CEO of Philip Anschutz’ Walden Media, where he’ll share responsibilities with Walden’s Cary Granat.

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Walden Media invites you to discover how great ideas become great stories by joining their BookShare Club.

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For the 2008 Young Artist Awards, a whole slew of Walden Media films have been nominated in many categories. For the full list of nominees, visit the Young Artist Awards website.

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Ordinary sixth-grader Simon Bloom has just made the biggest discovery since gravity – and it literally fell into his lap, or onto his head anyway. Simon has found the Teacher’s Edition of Physics, a magical reference book containing the very formulas that control the laws that govern the universe! By reciting the formulas out loud, he’s able to do the impossible – like reverse the force of gravity to float weightlessly and reduce friction to glide on air!

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