{"id":4158,"date":"2016-01-06T08:27:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2016-01-05T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T00:03:18","slug":"the-relative-success-of-the-peanuts-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/the-relative-success-of-the-peanuts-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The relative success of The Peanuts Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, box office receipts is kind of a stinky way to talk about movies&#8230; but I&#8217;m a math person at heart and by training, and when I see numbers, I cannot help but to process them. So I think about\u00a0<strong>The Peanuts Movie<\/strong> and the $129 million in domestic ticket sales it&#8217;s gotten so far, and I reflect on the fact that Peanuts was really not a big name brand in theatrical animation going in. Sure, there were movies over a third of a century ago, but even those saw very modest results. You know what is a name brand in modern animation. Pixar. Pixar is\u00a0<em>the<\/em> name brand. Their new film was going to be the thing that shoved\u00a0<em>The Peanuts Movie<\/em> out of people&#8217;s minds. And yet&#8230; that new film,\u00a0<em>The Good Dinosaur<\/em>, has done only $115 million, and is unlikely to eclipse\u00a0<em>The Peanuts Movie<\/em>. In the foreign market,\u00a0<em>Dinosaur<\/em> has done a lot more than\u00a0<em>Peanuts<\/em> ($129 million versus $77 million), but\u00a0<em>Peanuts<\/em> is catching up, having taken in (in the territories thus far reported, some have not yet been reported) $16.7 million this weekend to\u00a0<em>Dinosaur<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0$9.5 million. All in all,\u00a0<em>Dinosaur<\/em> may take in a wee bit more worldwide&#8230; but given that it cost twice as much to make, it&#8217;s clear that\u00a0<em>Peanuts<\/em> was at least playing in big-league terms here.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, if you want a copy of the movie for your own home, you can now preorder it on <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B018WXLHFI\">DVD<\/a>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B018WXLHVM\">Blu-ray<\/a>, and on <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B018WXLK0K\">3D Blu-ray<\/a>\u00a0for release in the spring. That 3D one is listed as a Collectors&#8217; Edition, so it seems likely (although no guarantee from me) that it will come with a 2D format and digital access. I can&#8217;t find any word\u00a0yet on what the special features will be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, box office receipts is kind of a stinky way to talk about movies&#8230; but I&#8217;m a math person at heart and by training, and when I see numbers, I cannot help but to process them. So I think about\u00a0The Peanuts Movie and the $129 million in domestic ticket sales &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animated-peanuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}