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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 Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age, Rio) will be developing the popular Peanuts comic-strip into a CG-animated feature film franchise. Fox is ready to turn the hugely [...]
‘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 compilation, Charlie Brown! The latest collection, Happiness Is…Peanuts: Team Snoopy, celebrates Charles Schulz’s much-adored characters at their most athletic. First up, one player on Charlie [...]
Costumed Toons Glitz Up White House Easter Egg Roll
Animated characters will help the first family and the nation celebrate Easter this year, with costumed characters ranging from Babar, the Cat in the Hat and the Smurfs to Spider-Man, Charlie Brown, Jake and Finn, and Alvin and the Chipmunks slated to appear Monday at the 134th annual White House [...]
Warner to Release Sports-Themed Peanuts DVD
Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy and the gang will get their own sports-themed package on May 8, when Warner Home. Ent. releases the new DVD Happiness is … Peanuts: Team Snoopy. This title pairs the TV special Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown with an episode from The Charlie Brown and [...]
Fox to Air New ‘Ice Age’ Christmas Special on Nov. 24
Fox TV will premiere the new Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special on Nov. 24 at 8 p.m.. The Blue Sky-produced half-hour adventure finds Sid and Manny on their way to the North Pole to make things right with Santa after their accidentally end up on Santa’s naughty list. Directed [...]
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 the full gamut, from modern kid fare such as Hero 108: Season 1, Vol. 1 (VIZ, $14.97) to more nostalgic releases like Peanuts: Happiness Is … [...]
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 an animator chooses to quit his day job at Pixar for a better offer, but that’s exactly what director Andy Beall decided to about a year [...]
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 release that includes a 3D Blu-ray edition. Tangled (Disney, $29.99 DVD, $39.99 Blu-ray and DVD combo pack, $49.99 3D Blu-ray and DVD combo pack) comes packed [...]
‘Archer,’ Classic ‘Peanuts’ Lead DVD Releases
The week after Christmas is a great time to relax, catch up on some shopping and trade in those unwanted gifts for brand-new animation! Released this week is Archer: The Complete Season One (Fox, $29.98), which collects all 10 episodes of the goofy spy series that aired last year on [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
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Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
