Feb. 26—Benji Maldonado 1974-2025 Benji Maldonado, age 50, of Socorro, New Mexico. Born October 7, 1974. He passed away peacefully in his home on February 16th, 2025, after a long battle with health ...

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 ...

Benji is back. The adorable stray returns in a family film that tries to recapture (and slightly improve upon) the feel-good formula of Joe Camp's 1974 underdog success. Before Air Bud, before ...

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 ...

MCKINNEY, Texas — From directors to actors to producers, there's a lot of cinema weaved into North Texas history. While there are plenty of people worth mentioning, there's a well-known, four-legged ...

The 2018 remake of Benji, the 1974 film about a precocious and precious pup, is fairly predictable family fun. Children bond with a dog, he helps them through trouble, it’s all very cute. The 2018 ...

Thirty years, three feature follow-ups and assorted TV spinoffs after "Benji" (1974), his indie sleeper hit about a lovably resourceful mutt, filmmaker Joe Camp returns to his roots with a pleasant, ...

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 ...

Camp died at his home in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, about 55 miles south of Nashville, his son, Brandon Camp, said in a statement. The cause of death was an unspecified illness, The New York Times ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Netflix has released a Benji trailer for a ...

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 ...