Charles Martin Smith

With Gary Oldman getting strong reviews and Oscar buzz for his performance as spy George Smiley in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, the Arclight in Hollywood is offering a six-film retrospective of the British actor’s career beginning...

A fine all-family attraction sensitively guided by director Charles Martin Smith - alias, as an actor, Toad of "American Graffiti" - this fact-inspired drama is a natural for the "Free Willy" faithful. It leans heavily on young Nathan Gamble, playing a...

CLEARWATER -- Winter, a cute, tailless dolphin with a perky personality, has saved Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Now it's starring in a family film that could bring millions of tourists and dollars to this Gulf Coast community. Expecting "Dolphin Tale"...

SEPT. 9 All's Faire in Love A college football star has to make up for his many absences by working at a Renaissance fair, where he falls for an aspiring actress. With Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Cedric the Entertainer and Matthew Lillard. Written...

When a movie like "Dolphin Tale" films in Florida, it's not just local actors such as Tom Nowicki, Betsy Landin and Rus Blackwell who got work on the Clearwater shoot. Local crew picked up jobs, including work on storyboards. Storyboards are the movie...

Dolphins are so cute that many kids wish they could have them as pets. These marine cuties are too big for the home aquarium, so kids will have to content themselves with watching pint-sized characters nurse an injured dolphin back to health in "Dolphin...

The story of how Winter, a New Smyrna Beach dolphin, lost her tail and became the star attraction of the Clearwater Aquarium becomes an adorable kids' film in “Dolphin Tale.” No, this isn't how it really happened. But director Charles Martin...

Can Brad Pitt open a movie, REALLY open a movie? It's been a while since he's tried. “Moneyball” is his best Oscar shot since “Benjamin Button,” and I think, a better movie. VERY good reviews, overall, for this one. But will his...

Thinking about a trip to The Clearwater Aquarium? Think again. Dolphin Tale, the movie about the aquarium's most famous resident, Winter, the dolphin with the artificial tail, begins production on Friday, Sept. 10. Expect production to eat up a couple...

Kris Kristofferson has joined the cast of the family-friendly drama “Dolphin Tale” which Alcon is filming over in Clearwater, with Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick Jr. Kristofferson, 74, will play the father of the Connick...

Headed over today to the Clearwater set of the new kid-friendly movie about Winter the Dolphin, how he came to be rescued and re-habbed with a prosthetic tale and have a new home in the Clearwater Aquarium. Harry Connick Jr. is among the stars of this...

I dropped by the Clearwater Aquarium to watch a bit of the filming on Alcon/Warner Bros. production, “Dolphin Tale,” a fall 2011 family film shooting there through Dec. 10. It's a fictionalized account of the plucky little dolphin Winter,...