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 ...

Did you know the 1974 movie Benji was largely filmed in downtown McKinney? Nearly 50 years later, the city is looking to celebrate and commemorate its role in movie history by commissioning a ...

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 ...

There are no showtimes for For the Love of Benji. You can stream it or buy it on digital platforms below. Benji is the name of a dog who has been the focus of several movies from 1974 through the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...