The characters, which have been around since the 1950s and hit new heights of popularity with a cartoon in America in the 1980s, are returning to the small screen with a new animated series on ...

In the first few minutes of the animated film “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” I couldn’t help but wonder whether this was going to be a terribly long version of the 1980s TV cartoon series. Fortunately, ...

Smurfblossom (Ellie Kemper), Smurfette (Demi Lovato), Brainy (Dany Pudi), Clumsy (Jack McBrayer), Hefty (Joe Manganiello), Smurflily (Ariel Winter) and Smurfstorm (Michelle Rodriguez) in "Smurfs: The ...

The 1980s TV sitcom ALF will get the big screen treatment via the producer of the Smurfs movie. The Hollywood Reporter claims that Jordan Kerner has teamed with the series' creator Tom Patchett and ...

This week’s featured adaptation is “The Smurfs,” and the movie reviews have been uneven (though they were all were written by adults). It’s a big-screen version of the tale of little blue folks, a ...

GERMANY The late cartoonist Pierre Culliford - best known by his pen name, "Peyo" - first introduced the tiny blue figures in a comic strip in October 1958. He called them Schtroumpf; they became ...