Charlotte's Web is a live-action/computer-animated feature film, based on the popular book of the same name by E.B. White. It is directed by Gary Winick and produced by Paramount Pictures, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, and Nickelodeon Movies. The screenplay is by Susannah Grant and Karey Kirkpatrick, based on White's book.

It is the second film adaptation of White's book, preceded by a 1973 cel-animated version produced by Hanna-Barbera for Paramount Pictures. It was distributed in Switzerland, Spain, and Netherlands by Universal Pictures.

The film was at one time intended for a June 2006 release, but was pushed back to December 2006 to avoid competition with two other films from Nickelodeon Movies - Nacho Libre and Barnyard - as well as Over the Hedge and Cars among other films. It was released in Australia on December 7, 2006 and in the United States and Canada on December 15, 2006. The U.S. and Canadian release date matches that of 20th Century Fox's Eragon, another film with fantasy elements and a young protagonist. The scheduled release date in the UK is February 9, 2007.

The film was rated G by the MPAA, being Paramount's first theatrical film to be rated G by the MPAA. The DVD was released on April 3, 2007 in the United States and Canada and was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on May 28.

The slogan of the film, according to the trailer and website, is "Help is coming from above."

Charlotte's Web, a children's book by E. B. White, was adapted into an animated musical film by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions in 1973. The song score is by the Sherman Brothers. The film, distributed to theatres by Paramount Pictures on March 1, 1973, is the first of only three Hanna-Barbera features not based upon one of their famous television cartoons—Heidi's Song (1982) and Once Upon a Forest (1993) being the other two—and was a moderate critical and commercial success.

Paramount released a direct-to-video sequel, Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure, in the US in 2003 (Universal released the film internationally). A live-action film version of E.B. White's original story was released in December 2006.

Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen. Written by Murray Chapman

This is the story of a little pig named Wilbur who was born a runt, and Mr. Arable decides to kill it! His daughter Fern begs him to let the helpless little pig live. Her father decides to let Fern keep him as a pet. Wilbur meets a bunch of new friends including Charlotte. Once Wilbur turns five weeks old Fern has no choice but to sell him to another farm. Mr. and Mrs. Arable calls up Fern's uncle Mr. Homer L. Zuckerman. Meanwhile, Wilbur has notice that Mr. Zuckerman and Lurvy are plotting to kill him! So he hatches a plan with his dear friend Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider. It's up to Charlotte to save Wilbur's life before he'll end up on the dinner table at Christmastime! Written by Anthony Pereyra

Most of the shooting was done in Victoria Australia. As it wasn't the correct season in Melbourne during the county fair scenes, the trees surrounding the location were spray painted with non-toxic orange and yellow paint to make it seem as though it was autumn. And, rather than have extras getting motion sickness on the rides, the art department sculpted bodies out of polystyrene and took casts of their own faces that were put onto the dummies. These dummies were painted and dressed up and strapped into rides; going round and around for about a week - and no motion sickness. Each of their faces (about 5 of them) were on all of the 60 or so dummies.

Chloe Greenfield auditioned for the part of Fern.

Danny Elfman dropped out of Spider-Man 3 (2007) to score this film.

The Australian extras in the County Fair scene were told at one point to make some sounds for the microphones to pick up, to sound like real Fair-goers. After one take with their normal accents, they were reminded to be American. Most promptly started just repeating, "Oh My God" and some other modern-day Americanisms.

There were 47 Wilburs on set because the piglets grew up so fast. Also, each one was taught only one "trick", like to stare up or to walk a certain distance.

The spider introduces herself as "Charlotte A. Cavatica," which refers to the barn spider's scientific name, Araneus cavaticus. The old scientific name was singular - Aranea cavatica.

Tim Burton (I) turned down an opportunity to direct so he could direct Sweeney Todd (2007)

The book that Fern was reading to the animals in the barn was "Make Way for Ducklings", by Robert McCloskey.

The emblem on Fern's red jacket represents the Brownie Scouts. The emblem was a "brownie" (elf) in a trefoil. Brownies are the level of Scouts for girls in grades 1-3.

For security reasons, early prints of the film were shipped under the title "Bacon".

The names of the two crows, Elwyn and Brooks, is a reference to author E.B. White, whose full name was Elwyn Brooks White.

According the the 2007 DVD Director's Commentary, Templeton's feasting at the fair sequence was expanded after a test audience missed the Sherman brothers song, "A Veritable Smorgasbord," they remembered from the 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated feature.

Charlotte is voiced by model-actress Laetitia Casta on the French language version.