Fox Offers More Details on CG ‘Peanuts’ Feature

April 21, 2013 by Ramin Zahed 3 Comments

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 will definitely be CG-animated and in stereoscopic 3-D. The studio also confirmed that the film will be released in November 2015 to mark the 65th anniversary [...]

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Good Grief, It’s a CG-Animated Peanuts Pic!

October 9, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 6 Comments

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 [...]

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Beloved Disney Songwriter Robert Sherman Dies at 86

March 6, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments

Iconic songwriting legend Robert Sherman has passed away at the age of 86 in London. Sherman and his brother Richard were behind such timeless classic tunes as Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World After All” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and “A Spoonful of Sugar” (Mary Poppins) and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” Sherman’s agent, [...]

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‘Batman: Brave and the Bold’ and ‘Barbie: A Fairy Secret’ on DVD

March 14, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment

It’s the Caped Crusader and the world’s favorite doll swooping in to the rescue with new video releases perfectly timed to stave off bouts of boredom. Batman: The Brave & the Bold, Season 1, Part 2 (Warner Bros., $14.97) brings 13 episodes from the Cartoon Network series that teams up [...]

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