Peanuts loses to a Seuss
The final weekend tally for The Peanuts Movie in North America is in, and at $44,213,073, it remains the second biggest opening weekend for a non-Pixar G-rated movie, beaten out by Horton Hears a Who…. which was also directed by Steve Martino. (Not that any of this is directly important; the long-term …
Snoopy in Chinese English
Go here for some coverage by CNC World, a China-based English language news channel, of the Snoopy Hollywood Walk Of Fame dedication. Yes, I’m blogging this mainly so that certain people can see my incompetency at trying to hold my book up to the camera (I appear at 2:19). I’m trying to …
Free – the part of The Peanuts Movie my audience is least interested in.
For some reason, Fox has put the full cartoon short “Cosmic Scat-tastrophe” on the web for free. This is the Ice Age short that runs before The Peanuts Movie. Alas, they have not chosen to do that with the feature itself yet. (And it’s hard to blame them on that!)
The Peanuts Movie, of course
I’m just back from my second viewing of The Peanuts Movie (the kids wanted to see it), this time in 2-D… and I was right, it works just fine in 2-D. And I see that the weekend box office estimates are up. Now, these are a silly thing, they release these …
How to be a Grrrl!
I just got How to Be a Grrrl! which according to its cover is by Lucy Van Pelt herself. This is a collection of strips (and selections from strips) starring Lucy, about feminism and power. They attempt to use a ‘zine-style design asthetic, with the strips put in front of backgrounds that …
Big Book sighting
AAUGH Blog reader Bobby just dropped me an email to let me know that he’d sighted the 1960s volume of The Big Book of Peanuts, with all the daily strips from that decade, in a big pile at his local Costco in Virginia, along with copies of the 1970s and …
Box officing
The box office numbers game is, well, a game, and lots of folks playing it seem to have little idea what they’re talking about. Whether a film like The Peanuts Movie is a financial success has to do with a lot more than how much it makes in its first weekend, …
transparency statement
I’ve been doing the AAUGH Blog (in blog or its original email newsletter form) for almost 16 years now, and my situation has changed in various ways during that time. As it’s a blog with opinion, recommendations, and occasional snark, I find it in my ethical interest to post, from …
Schulz’s bridge cartoons for the Kindle
Timed totally coincidentally to launch on the day of The Peanuts Movie release is the Kindle edition of Bridge Mix: the Bridge Cartoons of Charles M. Schulz, the collection of the bridge-themed cartoons from Schulz’s single-panel newspaper feature, “It’s Only a Game”. The publisher is About Comics, which is… hey, that’s me! …
3-D or not 3-D, that is the question
AAUGH Blog reader Jason asks me whether he should see The Peanuts Movie in 3-D. Here’s my reaction: you really don’t have to… but for the exact same reason you don’t have to, you can. Most of the film isn’t using the 3-D in any aggressive ways. Things aren’t springing out …