The makers of “Earth to Echo” said inspiration struck when they realized that if they updated the story of Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” the youthfu… ...

Earth to Echo is Disney’s loss, but it may be Relativity Media’s gain — if the movie does well when it opens July 2. The $13 million PG film about a tiny alien that looks like a robot and ...

Earth to Echo Director Dave Green and I had a short chat about his upcoming (July 2) movie that takes us on a first-person look at first contact. The movie features an interesting film technique ...

‘Earth to Echo’: What the Critics Are Saying. Dave Green's feature follows three friends, played by Teo Halm, Brian "Astro" Bradley and Reese Hartwig, and their new alien comrade as they ...

“Earth to Echo” is such a shameless “E.T.” rip-off that I picture excited dictionary editors rushing to their publishing plants screaming, “Stop the presses!

Any movie about kids and aliens inevitably will draw comparisons to “E.T.,” but “Earth to Echo” also includes the friendship adventure of “The Goonies” and “Stand By Me” combined ...

‘Earth to Echo’ Review: Kids Will Enjoy Found-Footage Faux-Spielberg. This attempt to revive 80s sci-fi for the smartphone crowd results in a harmless lark for air-conditioning-starved parents ...

From the get go, "Earth to Echo" was branded as a found-footage rehash of "E.T." This is no surprise, really, because the two films have a lot in common.

In 1982 it took a whole movie for E.T. to place a call back to his home planet. He might have found more luck with the trio of kids in Earth to Echo, who always seem to have a surplus of cell-phones ...

Earth to Echo is a film that knows its audience. The problem is that its audience, increasingly, needs a special reason to get off the Internet and come to the theater.

Earth to Echo is unsurprisingly, exactly as advertised. Owing a considerable debt to the golden age of “kid empowerment” movies of the ’80s, ...