{"id":2180,"date":"2012-10-10T10:07:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2012-10-10T10:07:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:07:42","slug":"what-the-new-film-will-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/what-the-new-film-will-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What the new film will mean"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about the newly-announced Peanuts film and what it will all mean for those of us in the Peanuts fan\/Peanuts stuff-buying community. Here are some quick thoughts:<\/p>\n

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  1. This will not be a minor film. This is coming from Blue Sky Productions, who have so far released seven movies, the weakest-performing of which did over a quarter billion dollars box office worldwide, about half of that being domestic.<\/li>\n
  2. It is reasonably likely that there will be more than one movie. Blue Sky has so far released four non-sequel movies (Ice Age<\/em>, Robots<\/em>, Horton Hears A Who<\/em>, Rio<\/em>), of which Ice Age<\/em> has three sequels released to date, and Rio<\/em> has one in the works.<\/li>\n
  3. There is apt to be a lot of Peanuts “stuff” released along with the movie. This is particularly true because the film is slated to come out November 25th, 2015 – which means it’s there for Christmastime viewing, and stuffed Snoopies will be just the thing to put under the tree.<\/li>\n
  4. “Stuff” will include books. Now, on one hand, one can look at a release like Rio<\/em> and say that it didn’t have many books (less than a dozen), so it won’t have that much impact. However, Rio was an original; there was no Rio<\/em> stuff laying around. I suspect we’ll see a lot of Peanuts kids books brought back into print, as well as new movie-specific stuff. The AAUGH Blogger will be kept busy.<\/li>\n
  5. A success is likely, because while the kids have not had as much exposure to Peanuts as in previous generations, the previous generations carry along positive feelings. As a parent, I can tell you that sometimes I look at the new kid movie offerings with a presumption that they’re dire, so I’m not encouraged to want to take the kids out for a bucket of popcorn.<\/li>\n
  6. While the trend these days is to cast big-name stars for voices for their marquee value, I suspect this is one film that won’t go that way. They may get some good names for the music.<\/li>\n
  7. A lot of the kiddie films have animated Christmas tie-in specials, so you can see an Ice Age Christmas, or a Shreck Christmas, or whatever. So I make this prediction: there will be a Peanuts Christmas special on TV the year of the film’s release!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Having said all that… it’s still three years away, so I suspect it will be at least two years before I have any news on tie-in books. About the only real news I can think of having earlier is casting news, and as I said, that is more likely to be kids than stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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