Get ready to feel a wave of high-pitched nostalgia as Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are officially tuning up for a massive ...

Brian Robbins’s Big Shot Pictures takes a stake in the 68-year-old franchise, with plans for short-form content and a new ...

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In 1961, CBS ran an animated series about Alvin and the Chipmunks, "The Alvin Show." It lasted only one season. Those shows were only 30 minutes long, including commercials. Thirty minutes (including ...

Six decades is a long time in the life of a chipmunk. Alvin and his brothers started life as disembodied voices on a novelty record in 1958, and first appeared in animated form in the 1961 primetime ...

Which Alvin and the Chipmunks gift is best? Novelty act Alvin and the Chipmunks have been rocking out since they began recording their squeaky-voiced songs in 1958. Generations continue to enjoy the ...

Being aimed at children isn't a valid excuse for a movie to be simple-minded and illogical. You know that, right? You know that that's what lazy filmmakers fall back on, don't you? "Well, so what if ...