Joe Camp, the writer, director and producer who taught that old dog Hollywood new tricks about animal movies as the creative force behind the 1974 franchise-spawning Benji, has died. He was 84. Camp ...

The new Benji movie is 97 minutes long. That's 11 hours and 19 minutes in dog years. It feels like it, too. The Benji movies, for those who have forgotten them, featured a cute bathmat of a dog ...

Benji is the name of a dog who has been the focus of several movies from 1974 through the 2000s. It is also the title of the first film in the Benji franchise. The eponymous canine character is a ...

When studios wouldn’t bite, director Joe Camp raised financing for his movie, told from a dog’s-eye view, and even formed his own distribution company to release it — creating a beloved canine star.

It's not every day when the folks in Mississippi can say a big Hollywood movie made its premiere here in the Magnolia state, but, that's what happened in Jackson Thursday evening. Benji Returns-Rags ...

It's been a mere 14 years since the last "Benji" movie. But in dog years, that's an eternity. "Benji," which lands on Netflix on Friday, is an earnest attempt to rekindle the most earnest of film ...

Joe Camp, a North Texas adman turned filmmaker who bootstrapped his way to a smash-hit with Benji, the 1974 live-action film starring a shaggy-haired pooch, after being turned away by Hollywood ...

He made and distributed the first film about the scruffy dog on his own and found great success. “We got it by depicting what the animal was feeling, not what the animal was doing,” he said. By Mike ...