Tag: Peanuts
ABC Signs Five-Year Deal for ‘Peanuts’ Specials
Charlie Brown and his posse will continue to have their animated adventures on ABC. The network announced on Friday that it has extended its...
Heritage to Auction Off Rare ‘Peanuts’ Art
Rare original animation art from the first TV appearance by Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts characters will be offered at the Beverly Hills' Heritage Auctions...
Good Grief! Feig to Produce Fox’s ‘Peanuts’ Movie
Comedy director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat, NBC's Freaks and Geeks) isn't the first name that comes to mind when you think of wholesome...
Introducing Another Memorable French Character
Benoît Chieux speaks about his new animated feature Aunt Hilda! and offers his candid perspectives on the toon business.
Over the past decade, French auteurs...
Peanuts to Star in French-Produced Animated Shorts
Charlie Brown, Linus and Snoopy will be heading over to France for a new animated short-form series produced by Normaal Animation and France Televisions....
Fox Skeds Five Animated Features a Year for 2017-2018
20th Century Fox has upped the ante in the animated feature film game, announcing Monday plans to release five animated movies a year in...
Fox Offers More Details on CG ‘Peanuts’ Feature
Good grief, Charlie Brown! One of the hot items announced at last week’s CinemaCon event in Las Vegas was that Fox’s upcoming Peanuts feature...
Disney Painter Edward Levitt Has Died
Edward Levitt, a background painter for Walt Disney Animation Studios during animation’s Golden Age and a key influence on the Cartoon Modern movement of...
Warner Bros. Greenlights ‘Scalia & Snagglepuss’ Movie
Jumping on the recent spotlight on Judge Antonin Scalia, Warner Bros. has announced that it’s going ahead with a new live-action/animated hybrid feature titled...
A Bill Melendez Christmas
What would the holidays be without A Charlie Brown Christmas, which, believe it or not, premiered 47 years ago? And what would any Charlie...
Good Grief, It’s a CG-Animated Peanuts Pic!
Here’s a piece of news that 2D animation purists may have a tough time to swallow. Deadline.com reports that 20th Century Fox Animation and...
‘Team Snoopy’ and More Play Ball on DVD
If you’re not the types to dance around the May Pole, there’s some sweet family fare launching on DVD today.
First up: It’s another Peanuts...
Rare ‘Calvin & Hobbes’ Artwork at Heritage Auctions
An incredibly rare piece of original artwork from the comic classic Calvin and Hobbes will be offered at Heritage Auctions’ Vintage Comics & Comic...
Roman Knows: What’s In a Name
Phil Roman has settled into being an elder statesman of the animation industry—something of an irony (if an inevitable one) for a man once...
The Best Interview in Animation
There are good interviews and bad interviews. Some interviewees stick to the marketing playbook at all costs while others tell stories they’ve told so...
Sesame Street: “Bert and Ernie Aren’t Gay!”
In response to an online petition on change.org urging Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie to marry, the org has issued a statement noting...
New ‘Snoopy,’ ‘SpongeBob,’ ‘Bob’ Released on Home Video
It's going to be tough to pick from this week's relatively even batch of animation and visual-effects DVD and Blu-ray releases.
The animated releases run...
Giving Linus a Break!
The Peanuts gang is back in a new stand-alone DVD special in Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown.
It’s not every day that...
Disney Gets ‘Tangled’ Up on 3D Blu-ray
The Walt Disney Animation Studios brought a classic fairy tale into modern times with Tangled, and they're doing it again with a home video...
kaboom! Brings New ‘Peanuts’ Special Back to Comics
We've already told you about Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, the new Peanuts animated special. Now the special is getting Peanuts back...
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