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The Max Holiday 2024 collection That Time of Year is now live on the streaming service. The collection will serve as the hub for holiday content, showcasing an extensive selection of series, films, and more, guaranteed to bring joy and cheer to viewers during the festive season.

The That Time of Year collection kicks off the festivities today by spotlighting themed curations like “Comfort & Joy,” “Families We’re Thankful For” and “Season of Romance,” featuring new Max Original film Sweethearts (debuting Nov. 28) and others, making it seamless for subscribers to discover holiday classics and new favorites on Max.

On top of celebrating the 20th anniversary of Polar Express, viewers can also dive into nostalgic fan favorite films such as A Christmas Story, Elf, Holiday Harmony, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and ageless holiday classics like A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Story, A Carol for Another Christmas, Meet Me In St. Louis (Dec.

‘That Time of Year’ 2024 on Max

Max is celebrating the winter holidays with the “That Time of Year” collection, a special page featuring selected holiday films and series. The streamer’s also bringing back its special Yule log collection, with the 2024 selection including “World of Westeros Dragon Egg Yule Log,” “Harry Potter: Fireplace,” and “A Very Merry Rickmas Yule Log.”

2024’s been a tough year so holiday favorites Elf, A Christmas Story, and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation will help take our minds off the world. Max’s lineup also includes the classic holiday films A Christmas Carol, A Carol for Another Christmas, Meet Me In St. Louis, and The Shop Around the Corner. And beginning November 29, the streamers highlighting favorite holiday episodes of Friends, Abbott Elementary, Young Sheldon, and The Big Bang Theory.

Max’s “That Time of Year” Highlights:

Holiday Essentials

8-Bit Christmas (2021)

A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)

A Christmas Carol...

Ready to enter a new “Ice Age?”

Disney has announced that a sixth “Ice Age” film, the first proper installment in the franchise since 2016’s “Ice Age: Collision Course,” will arrive in theaters in 2026. And what’s more, original cast members Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Queen Latifah are set to return. (It’s unclear if Denis Leary will be back; let us pray.)

The news comes out of D23 Brazil, the first South American version of the Disney fan convention that had previously been held at the Anaheim Convention Center across the street from Disneyland.

One of the most successful animated franchises in history, the series has amassed more than $6 billion over those original five movies.

One of the bigger question marks surrounding a sixth “Ice Age” is who will be animating the feature. Famously, the earlier films were done by Blue Sky Studios, an animation studio in Greenwich,...

I had low expectations for Monster Summer. Based on the trailer, it comes across as a Goosebumps and Stranger Things wannabe. The movie has a cast with a few notable names past their primes in such minor roles that you wonder who cashed in a favor or two.

Then there is Mel Gibson, the controversial Hollywood legend, who elevates this adventure horror film into something worth the price of admission. Gibson’s performance single-handedly elevates Monster Summer, which could have been a cheap knockoff, into something substantive.

Not to mention, this is a family “horror” film with a surprising amount of heart.

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The story follows a young teenager, Noah (The Black Phone’s...

“Night of the Zoopocalypse,” the spooky animated family comedy featuring the voices of David Harbour (“Stranger Things”), Scott Thompson (“The Kids in the Hall”), Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (“The Mandalorian”) and Gabbi Kosmidis (“Unicorn Academy”) has been picked up by Viva Pictures for the U.S. The deal was brokered with Charades and Anton, who were handling sales, ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival on Oct. 6.

“Night of the Zoopocalypse” will be released across North America on March 7, 2025. Elevation Pictures will distribute theatrically in Canada.

Inspired by a concept from best-selling genre author Clive Barker (“The Thief of Always”), the film sees a meteor unleash a virus that turns zoo animals into mutants. A mountain lion (Harbour) and wolf (Kosmidis) must lead a team of surviving animals to stop the virus and rescue their zoo.

The film was directed by veteran animators Ricardo Curtis and Rodrigo Perez-Castro.

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Three years after its shutdown, the legacy of BlueSky Studios is somewhat being forgotten within the animation community. Originally the successor to the defunct Fox Animation Studios, BlueSky Studios was one of the earliest companies to work with 3D animation. Founded in 1987, they worked on multiple commercials and short films. They made movies like Robots, Epic, the Rio series, and The Peanuts Movie. But perhaps they were best known for the Ice Age series.

From 2002 – 2016, the Ice Age series consisted of five theatrical films with over $3.2 Billion in profit, making it one of the most successful animated movie franchises of all time.

The series technically finished with the fifth film, Collision Course, when it performed far lower than previous entries.

However, the original series ended when Disney acquired BlueSky’s parent company, 20th Century Fox,...

The Black Phone star Mason Thames is gearing up for a Monster Summer, a spooky family adventure from director David Henrie (“Wizards of Waverly Place”). A brand new trailer debuted today, introducing a supernatural coming-of-age story.

Monster Summer arrives in theaters on October 4, 2024.

In the film, “When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.”

The new trailer below leans into the nostalgia of childhood summers with a suspenseful twist, while giving nothing away. It’s also packed with familiar faces.

Lorraine Bracco, Nora Zehetner (“The Right Stuff”), Noah Cottrell (“The Spiderwick Chronicles), Abby James Witherspoon (Secret Headquarters), Lilah Pate (“Outer Banks”), Julian Lerner (“The Wonder Years”), Patrick Renna (The Sandlot), and Mel Gibson also stars.

The spooky family adventure movie, formerly titled Boys of Summer, was...

For decades, Memorial Day weekend has traditionally been a hugely busy weekend at the box office, often offering the biggest of franchise sequels — or in this case, two potential franchise prequels? Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

The Memorial Day bump that has helped so many franchise installments before will certainly be in play for George Miller‘s return to the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max with “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” a prequel that tells the earlier story of Charlize Theron‘s character from “Mad Max: Fury Road.” This one stars Anya Taylor-Joy as the title character, joined by Chris Hemsworth as a new antagonist called Dementus, as well a mix of new characters and ones that appeared in “Fury Road.”

Miller’s career as a filmmaker pretty much began back in 1980 with “Mad Max,” a cult action movie that introduced Mel Gibson to the world,...

Nickelodeon today revealed the official trailer and key art for the all-new original animated series The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish, sharing a glimpse into the reimagined Fairy World and new city of Dimmadelphia.

Produced by Nickelodeon Animation, the 20-episode series premieres Monday, May 20 at 4:30 p.m. Et/Pt on Nickelodeon in the U.S. and will be available on Netflix internationally later this year.

In the half-hour premiere, “Fly,” 10-year-old Hazel Wells tries to run away from home, leading her to discover that her weird neighbors, Cosmo and Wanda, are really Fairy Godparents in disguise. New episodes of The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish will continue to roll out weekdays at 4:30 p.m. Et/Pt on Nickelodeon.

In The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish, ten-year-old Hazel Wells has just moved to the big city of Dimmadelphia because of her dad’s new job. On top of being in an unfamiliar environment,...

When Chris Wedge's animated film "Ice Age" first came out in 2002, it was considered novel and striking for many reasons. It was set in prehistoric times yet eschewed dinosaurs in favor of megafauna living in the Pleistocene Epoch. The three main characters were a sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo), a smilodon named Diego (Denis Leary), and a mammoth named Manfred aka Manny (Ray Romano), and they were engaged in a great migration to flee the oncoming Ice Age. The plot of their first movie apes John Ford's 1946 Western "3 Godfathers," as the three animals discover a human infant that they must keep safe and deliver back to the then-evolutionarily-novel homo sapiens living nearby.

The design of "Ice Age" was striking, aiming for broad, stylized characters that were markedly different from the friendly, big-eyed protagonists of Disney pictures. It certainly helped that the "Ice Age" movies featured a character named Scrat,...

Nickelodeon is reimagining its Emmy Award-winning series The Fairly OddParents by launching the animated series Fairly Oddparents: A New Wish this spring.

The network promises the new iteration will extend the fairy universe for a new generation while honoring the original series, The Fairly OddParents, which ran from 2001-2017 and was created by Butch Hartman.

The 20-episode new series follows Hazel Wells (Ashleigh Crystal Hairston) a 10-year-old who has just moved to the big city of Dimmadelphia because of her dad’s new job. On top of being in an unfamiliar environment, it’s the first time she’s been without her brother, Antony, who’s just left for college, leaving her lonely and unsure of herself. All that changes when the pink-and-green-haired neighbors next door reveal that they are no ordinary neighbors — they’re fairy godparents Cosmo (Daran Norris) and Wanda (Susanne Blakeslee).

Fairly OddParents: A New Wish is...

Curb Your Enthusiasm returns to Max this month in what’s being called the show’s final season (for now). If you’re not ready for the Larry David-centric comedy series to end, you can binge all eleven of the show’s previous seasons on Max right now before hitting the new episodes.

Tokyo Vice will also be back in February for season 2. Stars Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, and Ayumi Ito are joined by Kubozuka and Miki Maya this time around, as Jake Adelstein feels the danger closing in on him. Max also welcomes you to the premiere of the highly acclaimed (and highly depraved) Dicks: The Musical this month, as a couple of self-obsessed businessmen discover they’re identical twins and decided to bring their divorced parents back together.

Here’s everything coming to (and leaving) HBO and Max this month…

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February may be the shortest month, but Max is staying true to its name with a jam-packed schedule of additions all month long!

In addition to dozens of library shows and movies getting added to the platform throughout February—from classics like “Citizen Kane” and “A Clockwork Orange” to recent A24 favorites like “Midsommar” and “Dicks: The Musical“—several major HBO premieres are coming this week to the cabler and its streamer, including Season 11 of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and the final season of the long-running “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Find out The Streamable’s top picks for February, and continue below to the full list of everything new on Max this month!

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Curb Your Enthusiasm begins its 12th and final season and Tokyo Vice returns for season two as part of Max’s February 2024 lineup. The streaming service has also set a February 18th launch date for season 11 of the award-winning, critically acclaimed series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Chef and bestselling author Carla Hall’s Chasing Flavor makes its debut on February 1st, and one of the best seasons of True Detective, True Detective: Night Country with Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, wraps up its too-short season on February 25th. The popular animated series Clone High releases new season two episodes beginning on February 1st.

‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ (Photograph by Courtesy of HBO) Series & Films Arriving On Max In January 2024

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Bad Education (2004)

Batman vs. Robin (2015)

Batman: Bad Blood (2016)

The Bling Ring (2013)

Brooklyn (2015)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Citizen Kane (1941)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Dying of the Light (2014)

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(Welcome to Animation Celebration, a recurring feature where we explore the limitless possibilities of animation as a medium. In this edition: "Nimona.")

Following the Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Fox, Blue Sky Studios, the animation company behind films like "Ice Age," "The Peanuts Movie," and "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" was shuttered. This meant the already-in-progress adaptation of Nd Stevenson's graphic novel, "Nimona," was canceled. It's a tragedy when any project is unceremoniously scrapped as what boils down to a corporate cost-saving measure but for a film like "Nimona," whose production was already fighting to be presented authentically as Disney attempted to stifle the overtly queer elements of the film, it felt like yet another example of a corporation devaluing the stories of an already marginalized community to appease the status quo.

Fortunately, a savior appeared in the form of Annapurna Pictures, who rescued the production, brought it to Netflix,...

Sony Pictures Animation just dropped a trailer for their upcoming film, ‘The Garfield Movie,’ and it’s catching everyone’s attention. Chris Pratt, known for his role in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ brings life to the iconic, lasagna-loving cat. The trailer hints at a unique story, showing how Garfield and his owner Jon Arbuckle meet, wrapped in a theme reminiscent of ‘The Peanuts Movie.’

What’s really exciting is the twist in the story. The movie promises a high-stakes heist, which is a departure from the usual Garfield antics. According to the studio’s synopsis, Garfield, after reuniting with his long-lost father Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson), gets dragged into a thrilling adventure. He’s not alone, though; his pal Odie joins in on the action too.

The casting for this movie is impressive. Along with Pratt and Jackson, the film features talents like Hannah Waddingham, Nicholas Hoult, Ving Rhames,...

“The Bear” Renewed for Season 3

The Beef is back open for business! FX and Hulu have announced the Season 3 renewal of its critically acclaimed and award-winning series “The Bear.”

Jeremy Allen White stars in the high-energy dramedy as Carmy, a young trained chef who inherits his family’s Chicago sandwich shop after the suicide of his older brother, where is inherits its debts and drama whilst dealing with his grief. Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Abby Elliott, and Matty Matheson co-star with Jon Bernthal, Oliver Platt, Edwin Lee Gibson, Corey Hendrix, and more rounding out the ensemble.

In Season 2, White’s Carmy, Edebiri’s Sydney, and Moss-Bachrach’s Richie work to transform the grimy sandwich shop into a next-level spot, stripping down the restaurant and sending the crew on transformational journeys of their own.

Watch the trailer for Season 2 of “The Bear” below:

Season 1 is currently nominated for 13 Emmy Awards,...

There are three types of people in the world: "Garfield" people, "Calvin and Hobbes" people, and "Peanuts" people. As a practicing worshipper of The Great Pumpkin and the human result of what happens when Lucy van Pelt and Peppermint Patty go through the Brundlefly machine, I am firmly in the latter camp. There's no such thing as a bad "Peanuts" movie, in my opinion, only films that are special to a smaller number of fans.

The characters created by Charles M. Schulz have been entertaining generations for over 75 years, and there's no sign of stopping. Apple won the rights to much of the "Peanuts" library in the streaming wars, releasing the hybrid "Peanuts" special/Schulz documentary "Who Are You, Charlie Brown?" as well as two series, "Snoopy in Space" and "The Snoopy Show." Now, Apple TV+ is developing its first "Peanuts" original feature, bringing Charlie Brown and the gang to the Big City.

A full length 'Peanuts' movie is in development.Apple has confirmed plans for a new family feature film as the gang - including Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown and more - head to the Big City as they learn the true meaning of friendship and make new pals on their journey.Karey Kirkpatrick has co-written the screenplay from an original story by co-writers Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz and Cornelius Uliano.The trio were also behind 2015 film 'The Peanuts Movie', with director Steve Martino returning at the helm.The untitled movie will mark Apple's first original Peanuts feature, with WildBrain and Peanuts Worldwide also on board.Tara Sorensen, Apple’s head of children’s programming, said: "Fans of all ages have been enamored with Peanuts on Apple TV+."With our unmatched library of Peanuts titles, and award-winning collection of stories that bring kids and families together, Apple...

Snoopy, Woodstock, and the rest of the Peanuts gang are ready to return to the big time with help from Apple, WildBrain, and Peanuts Worldwide! Production on an untitled Peanuts feature film starts in 2024, with WildBrain Studios leading the charge! The project finds the Peanuts gang embarking on an epic adventure to the Big City, learning the true meaning of friendship, and making shocking new friends along the way!

Karey Kirkpatrick is co-writing the screenplay alongside The Peanuts Movie scribes Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, and Cornelius Uliano. The Peanuts Movie director Steve Martino returns to direct the new film, with Bonnie Arnold producing.

“Fans of all ages have been enamored with Peanuts on Apple TV+,” said Tara Sorensen, Apple’s head of children’s programming. “With our unmatched library of Peanuts titles, and award-winning collection of stories that bring kids and families together, Apple TV+ is the preeminent home for Snoopy and friends,...

Charlie Brown & Co. are heading to the Big City, in an original Peanuts movie.

It was announced on Monday that Apple TV+, the streaming destination for “all things Peanuts” (including classic holiday movies), has greenlit its first original Peanuts film.

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The new, CG-animated film from WildBrain and Peanuts Worldwide will follow the Peanuts gang as they embark on...

AppleTV+ is adding to its treasure chest of “Peanuts” content with a new movie from WildBrain and Peanuts Worldwide. The untitled feature, set to begin production in 2024, will send Charlie Brown and Snoopy to the Big City. Expect new friends, adventures and some lessons about the true meaning of friendship.

Karey Kirkpatrick is co-writing the feature from an original story from Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz and Cornelius Uliano.

That trio wrote the previous “The Peanuts Movie,” which earned $246 million worldwide in theaters. Two-time Annie Award nominee Steve Martino, director of the 2015 “Peanuts” film, will helm this latest offering. Two-time Academy Award nominee Bonnie Arnold will produce.

“Fans of all ages have been enamored with Peanuts on Apple TV+,” said Apple head of children’s programming Tara Sorensen. “With our unmatched library of Peanuts titles and award-winning collection of stories that bring kids and families together, Apple TV+ is the preeminent home for Snoopy and friends,...

Apple TV+ has announced a new original Peanuts feature film from WildBrain and Peanuts Worldwide. The film will follow Snoopy and Charlie Brown’s biggest challenge yet, as the Peanuts characters embark on “an epic adventure to the Big City, learning the true meaning of friendship, while meeting some surprising new friends along the way.” Production from WildBrain Studios will begin in 2024.

“Fans of all ages have been enamored with Peanuts on Apple TV+,” Tara Sorensen, Apple’s head of children’s programming, said in a statement. “With our unmatched library of Peanuts titles, and award-winning collection of stories that bring kids and families together, Apple TV+ is the preeminent home for Snoopy and friends, and offers a world class selection of series and films featuring the most globally cherished animated characters. We can’t wait for everyone to experience this heartwarming new adventure with Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the gang in the Big City.

Company producing with WildBrain, Peanuts Worldwide; remains invested in animated children’s, family space.

Apple is moving ahead on its first original Peanuts feature, the company announced on Monday.

Two-time Annie Award nominee Steve Martino, director of 2015’s The Peanuts Movie, helms the new project from WildBrain and Peanuts Worldwide.

Bonnie Arnold is producing the CG-animated feature as Snoopy and Charlie Brown embark on an adventure through the Big City, learning the true meaning of friendship and meeting surprising new friends along the way.

Karey Kirkpatrick is writing the screenplay from an original story by co-writers Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz and Cornelius Uliano,...

Apple, which holds the rights to the late Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts catalog, has ordered its first original animated film from Wildbrain Studios and Peanuts Worldwide.

Apple TV+ has commissioned the computer-generated animated film, which will follow Snoopy and Charlie Brown as they and the rest of the Peanuts gang go on an epic journey to the big city. The project marks the first Apple original film from the partnership with Peanuts Worldwide and WildBrain that has been preceded by the streaming of library Peanuts originals and specials.

Steve Martino will direct the untitled Peanuts film from producer Bonnie Arnold and co-writer Karey Kirkpatrick, who has animated screenwriting credits for Chicken Run, Smallfoot and Over the Hedge. Kirkpatrick will work from an original story by co-writers Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz and Cornelius Uliano, the team that wrote The Peanuts Movie for 20th Century Fox, which was based on the...

Annapurna Animation has ramped up the creative leadership of its team with the addition of Nimona director Nick Bruno and producer Julie Zackary. Zackary, a former Blue Sky Studios executive, will serve as Annapurna’s Head of Animation.

Also joining the division is Erica Pulcini as Creative Executive.

First out of the gate for the division is a feature take of BlueTwelve videogame, Stray.

Zackary will oversee all aspects of production throughout Annapurna Animation’s division. Zackary served as VP of Production Management at Sony Pictures Imageworks before joining Blue Sky Studios as Vice President of Production.

In Pulcini’s role as Creative Executive, she will help curate, develop and further define Annapurna Animation’s feature film slate.

Also in development is Foo, the next project from renowned director Chris Wedge.

Bruno is already on tap to develop and direct an untitled original feature film, and he is actively developing...

The son of 'Peanuts' creator Charles M. Schulz is hoping for a new movie based on the comic strip.Snoopy and Charlie Brown last hit the big screen with 'The Peanuts Movie' in 2015 but Craig Schulz is optimistic about the possibility of another film.In an interview with Screen Rant, Craig said: "I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you."Nothing is off the table, we're always exploring different ideas and different things in this co-view series ('The Snoopy Show') that we've done, which touched upon the environment, the love for teachers, Mother's Day, and how it interacts with enough people."Those subjects are just really fun, and as you know, the 'Peanuts' universe is sort of endless."There have been five movies based on Schulz's comic strip and Craig believes there is plenty of scope for the character to return to the big screen.

Craig Schulz, the son of “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz, is hopeful a new movie based on the comic strip will happen.

In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Craig discussed the possibility of another “Peanuts” film.

“I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you. [Laughs] Nothing is off the table, we’re always exploring different ideas and different things in this co-view series [‘The Snoopy Show’] that we’ve done, which touched upon the environment, the love for teachers, Mother’s Day, and how it interacts with enough people,” he said. “All those subjects are just really fun, and as you know, the ‘Peanuts’ universe is sort of endless.”

There are currently five features in the “Peanuts” franchise: “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” (1969), “Snoopy Come Home” (1972), “Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown” (1977), “Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!!)” (1980) and “The Peanuts Movie” (2015). The 2015 computer-animated...

It’s been eight years since The Peanuts Movie was released and there’s been no official word if another movie will be produced.

Ahead of the Apple TV+ special Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie, Charles Schulz’s son Craig Schulz said in an interview that he’s hopeful a new Peanuts movie would happen.

“I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you. [Laughs] Nothing is off the table,” Craig said in an interview with Screen Rant. “We’re always exploring different ideas and different things in this co-view series that we’ve done, which touched upon the environment, the love for teachers, Mother’s Day, and how it interacts with enough people. All those subjects are just really fun, and as you know, the Peanuts universe is sort of endless.”

He continued, “There are so many great characters to work with, there’s so many great themes to...

Netflix’s “Nimona” marks an LGBTQ breakthrough for a mainstream animated film. Based on Nd Stevenson’s best-selling queer graphic novel about the titular teen shapeshifter (Chloë Grace Moretz) in a futuristic medieval world, “Nimona” explores timely issues of identity and xenophobia. It additionally pushes 2D stylization into 3D with a uniquely illustrated look.

“Nimona” is also a minor miracle. It was rescued from the dead by Annapurna Animation and Netflix after Disney halted production in 2021 when they shuttered Fox-owned Blue Sky Studios, where the project originated. As it was, the film’s LGBTQ themes were watered down and a same-sex kiss between bestie knights (voiced by Riz Ahmed and Eugene Lee Yang) was a cause of concern at Disney.

But former Blue Sky co-presidents Andrew Millstein and Robert Baird refused to let “Nimona” die in 2021. Together with producer Julie Zackary and directors Nick Bruno and Troy Quane (“Spies in Disguise...

Exclusive: Anonymous Content is elevating longtime literary managers and producers Ryan Cunningham, David Kanter and Nicole Romano to partner.

Cunningham joined Anonymous Content in 2019 from Madhouse Entertainment where he had been a manager and producer for a decade. On the management side, his clients include filmmakers Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (65), Derek Tsang (The Three Body Problem), Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei (How to Blow Up a Pipeline); showrunners and writers Steven DeKnight (Spartacus), Jewel Coronel (The Chi), Seamus Fahey (Walker: Independence) and Sonya Winton & Jonathan Kidd (Lovecraft Country), Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts), Neil Uliano and Bryan Schulz (The Peanuts Movie), and Ben Queen (The Addams Family 2). Cunningham most recently produced the Sky/Relativity feature The Independent, and executive-produced Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman, which will be released in June by 20th Century Studios and Disney.

Kanter is a producer and manager at Anonymous...

Animation producer WildBrain has unveiled a deal to acquire House of Cool for $15.5 million in Canadian cash and stock (about $11.3 million in U.S. dollars).

The owner of Teletubbies will pay for the transaction with $10.25 million in issued WildBrain shares and $5.25 million in cash. The management of Toronto-based House of Cool also has an earn-out of up to $6 million based on the future collection of outstanding production tax credits from the closing of the deal.

House of Cool specializes in early-stage animation pre-production, which develops and sets creative choices on the look, feel, style and pacing of an animated project ahead of full production. As part of the deal, House of Cool co-founders Wes Lui and Ricardo Curtis will be joining the WildBrain Studios senior management team as co-general managers of their company, and reporting to Josh Scherba, president of WildBrain, who oversees the content and studio businesses.

“The acquisition...

Apple TV+ today unveiled the first trailer for “Lucy’s School,” a new original special celebrating educators based on the “Peanuts” comic strip by Charles M. Schulz.

In this new tale, the Peanuts gang enjoy summer break but are anxious about starting at a new school in the Fall, inspiring Lucy to start her own school instead. But, unsurprisingly, teaching isn’t as easy as it sounds. “Lucy’s School” is a love letter to teachers, and an appreciation of the impact a teacher can have on a child. It explores the fear of change, and shows how Lucy, supported by her friends, faces and overcomes her own fears.

Produced for Apple TV+ by Peanuts and WildBrain, the special is directed by Raymond S. Persi, written by Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, and Cornelius Uliano, who also executive produce alongside Paige Braddock, Josh Scherba, Stephanie Betts, Amir Nasrabadi and Anne Loi,...

Can the venerable Scripps National Spelling Bee take on the look of a Winter Olympics or “American Idol”? Its backers are about to find out.

Organizers of the event, which has kept Americans trying to figure out how to connect the right letters for words ranging from “sanitarium” to “xanthosis” for nearly a century, want to add new elements to the mix that might make the contest look less like something for elementary-school students and more like “America’s Got Talent.”

Actor LeVar Burton, known for his turn as the host of public television’s “Reading Rainbow,” is joining the proceedings. And producers hope to boost “the Bee” with backstage looks at contestants and a set of vignettes that give viewers a peek at how the spelling champions made their way from school competitions to the national stage. It all takes place as Scripps, the longtime owner of the contest, takes...

Charlie Brown and friends are celebrating their mothers (and fathers) in the latest Peanuts special, To Mom (And Dad), With Love. Set to premiere Friday, May 6 on Apple TV+, we’re giving Peanuts fans an exclusive sneak peek at the special’s first seven minutes along with an extra bonus clip featuring the cast of familiar characters as they come up with ways to celebrate their moms. (Credit: Apple TV+) In To Mom (And Dad), With Love, everyone in the Peanuts gang is excited about gearing up for Mother’s Day, everyone except for Peppermint Patty. For her, it’s a reminder that she didn’t grow up with a mom, making for mixed feelings surrounding the popular day. Thankfully, good friend Marcie helps Peppermint Patty see that families come in all shapes and sizes, meaning that the day doesn’t have to be a sad event. Along with finding...

Kirby Mizrachi is a young woman who narrowly survived a brutal attack years before Shining Girls gets underway, and all she wants to do is go about her life with some degree of normalcy. But the Apple TV+ thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ novel quickly establishes that a normal life will prove elusive: Adding insult to literal injury, the years since Kirby’s assault have brought on shifts in her reality.

This manifests in Kirby’s never being certain if the apartment she leaves in the morning will still be her home when she comes home at night, whether a...

The Peanuts gang will band together to celebrate Mother’s Day — while also respecting mom-less Peppermint Patty’s sensitivity about the holiday — in the new Apple TV+ special To Mom (And Dad), With Love, premiering Friday, May 6.

Based on the classic “Peanuts” comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, To Mom (And Dad), With Love is described as a sweet Mother’s Day celebration of friendship and family featuring the aforementioned Peanuts gang.

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“The Real Housewives” are going international, and the first stop is Dubai. “The Real Housewives of Dubai” will premiere on June 1 at 9 p.m. Et, Bravo announced Friday. The network also revealed the first promo for the first official international iteration of the franchise.

Dubai marks the 11th city in the “Housewives” franchise, and the first new one following the premiere of the hit “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” series in 2020. “Dubai” was first announced in November, and according to Bravo, it “follows a powerful group of lavish women as they run business empires and expertly navigate a highly exclusive social scene within this ultra-luxe billionaires’ playground … When new group dynamics threaten long-standing friendships, tensions inevitably reach a boiling point, so if you can’t handle the heat… get out of Dubai.”

Bravo announced that the cast will include Nina Ali, Chanel Ayan, Caroline Brooks, Dr. Sara Al Madani,...

It’s time to celebrate the Earth, Charlie Brown!

“Peanuts” is back for a new Earth Day special on Apple TV+, titled “It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown.” The program follows Sally’s bond with a special little flower on the baseball field that may spell disaster for the big game. For Charlie Brown and the team, it’s just the inspiration they need to make a positive impact on their environment.

On Thursday, the streamer released a trailer for the special, which also features an original song from Ben Folds. The sneak peek, which you can watch above, begins with the Peanuts’ baseball game getting interrupted by Sally, who is smack dab in the middle of the field talking to her favorite flower.

“Well, hello little flower. Do you ever feel like you just don’t fit in?” she ponders. “Small guys like us, we oughta stick together.

One of Disney's many acquisitions from the $71.3 billion merger was Blue Sky Studios, the animation studio behind "Ice Age," "Robots," "The Peanuts Movie," and "Ferdinand." Blue Sky was founded 1987 by a team of computer animators including Carl Ludwig, Eugene Troubetzkoy, Alison Brown, David Brown, Michael Ferraro, and Chris Wedge, who directed "Ice Age" and "Robots" among others. After 17 years of making hit films, Blue Sky was shuttered by Disney in April of 2020, reportedly because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Apart from the 450 animators who had to begin looking around at the new company for jobs, one...

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Shameless vet Emmy Rossum is taking on a motherly new role: The actress has joined Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried in the Apple TV+ anthology The Crowded Room, our sister site Deadline reports.

Written and executive-produced by Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind), the 10-episode drama explores inspirational stories of those who have struggled with mental illness and learned to live successfully with it. The first season, which is based on the biography The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes, will tell the story of Billy (played by Holland), the first person ever acquitted of a crime because...

Peter Robbins, who was the first person to voice Charlie Brown in several “Peanuts” TV specials in the 1960s, has died. He was 65.

His family told Fox 5 San Diego on Tuesday that he died by suicide last week.

At 9 years old, Robbins first voiced Charlie Brown in “A Boy Named Charlie Brown,” which was a television documentary about “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz released in 1963. He followed that up with the holiday classics “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in 1965 and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” in 1966.

Throughout the ’60s, Robbins provided his voice for “Charlie Brown’s All Stars,” “You’re in Love, Charlie Brown,” “It’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown,” “It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown” and the 1969 feature film “A Boy Named Charlie Brown.” The film was directed by veteran animator Bill Melendez, who also provided the voices of Snoopy and Woodstock in dozens of TV specials,...

Peter Robbins, who voiced Charlie Brown in the 1960s Peanuts cartoons, and Kathryn Kates, a veteran actress known for her roles in Seinfeld and Orange Is The New Black, have died. According to Robbins’ family, the former child actor, who suffered from bipolar disorder, committed suicide last week, as first reported by San Diego’s Fox 5. He was 65. Best known for voicing Charlie Brown in holiday classics such as A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966), Robbins voiced the iconic Charles M. Schulz-created character for four years. Outside of his work on the Peanuts cartoons, Robbins guest-starred on TV series such as The Munsters, Rawhide, Get Smart, The Donna Reed Show, F Troop, My Three Sons, and he had a recurring role in the 1968 sitcom Blondie. He later worked as a DJ. Robbins returned to the spotlight in 2015 when he was arrested and sentenced...

Peter Robbins, who voiced Charlie Brown in the classic 1960s Peanuts cartoons, has died. The former actor died by suicide last week, his family told San Diego’s Fox 5. He was 65.

Robbins (real name Louis G. Nanasi) was born in 1956 in Los Angeles. He began acting in 1963 and was the first to play the Charles M. Schulz-created character of Charlie Brown, including in such perennial holiday animated classics as A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966).

In addition to voicing Charlie Brown for four years, Robbins recurred on the 1968 comedy Blondie and guest starred on such TV series as Rawhide, The Munsters, The Donna Reed Show, F Troop, Get Smart and My Three Sons. Robbins quit acting in 1972. For awhile, he worked as a DJ in Palm Springs.

Robbins, who suffered from bipolar disorder, made headlines in 2015 when he was sentenced to five...

Exclusive: Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos), Nora Zehetner (Grey’s Anatomy), Julian Lerner (The Wonder Years), Abby James Witherspoon (Secret Headquarters) and Noah Cottrell (Punky Brewster) have joined the cast of Boys of Summer, the family adventure film from actor-director David Henrie that is now in production in North Carolina.

They will star alongside the previously announced Mel Gibson and Mason Thames.

In the film scripted by Cornelius Uliano and Bryan Schulz (The Peanuts Movie), a local boy (Thames) whose best friend is mysteriously taken begins to suspect that a supernatural entity may be hunting the children of Martha’s Vineyard. Soon after seeking the help of an aging detective (Gibson), he discovers that he’s on the path of a witch who has recently retired to his island.

Mark Fasano, James Henrie, John Blanford and Dan McDonough are producing, with Darren Moorman, Scott Pomeroy,...

Apple TV+ has launched the trailer for the Snoopy and Friends original holiday special ‘For Auld Lang Syne.’

Based on the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip by Charles M. Schulz the special is the first new original holiday special to come from Apple’s expanded partnership with WildBrain. It follows after Lucy experiences a disappointing Christmas because her Grandma couldn’t visit, she resolves to throw the best New Year’s Eve party ever for the entire Peanuts gang, while Charlie Brown struggles to accomplish just one of his resolutions before the clock strikes twelve.

Also in trailers – It’s time for the pets to suit up and save their superhero owners in ‘DC League of Super-Pets’

The special will be available globally on Friday, December 10, 2021.

The special is just one of this year’s with holiday lineup of new specials and episodes of award-winning Apple Original series from the Peanuts gang,...

Maybe 2021 wasn't so bad after all! Before the calendar year flips to 2022, the Peanuts gang will be gracing us with a new holiday special just in time for the new year. On Monday, Nov. 29, Apple TV+ released the first trailer for its upcoming Peanuts special, For Auld Lang Syne, which premieres Dec. 10. Much like its predecessors A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, the new special follows the beloved animated characters as they celebrate a major holiday. However, instead of Charlie Brown, it's Lucy stepping into the spotlight, as the just-released trailer shows her trying to plan the perfect New Year's Eve party. As Linus details in the...

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Earlier this year, The Walt Disney Company shut down Blue Sky Studios, the creators 'of the "Ice Age" franchise as well as "Robots," "The Peanuts Movie," and the recent "Spies in Disguise." But that's not stopping Disney from releasing another "Ice Age" movie on Disney+. Originally slated to be an animated series, "The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild" will now be the sixth installment of the film franchise, and we've got all the details you need...

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Washington, Nov 13 (Ians) US space agency NASA has announced that Snoopy will ride on the Artemis I mission, slated for 2022, as the zero gravity indicator. Snoopy is an anthropomorphic beagle in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, and has contributed to the excitement for NASA human spaceflight missions for more than […]...

Mel Gibson will star alongside Mason Thames, the rising actor who leads upcoming horror thriller The Black Phone, in Boys of Summer, an indie fantasy adventure thriller.

David Henrie, best known for his work as an actor on such shows as Wizards of Waverly Place, will direct the project, which hails from Nickel City Pictures, Novo Media Group and Pastime Pictures.

Written by Cornelius Uliano and Bryan Schulz (The Peanuts Movie), the script centers on a local boy (Thames) who, after his best friend mysteriously disappears, begins to suspect that a supernatural entity may be hunting the children of Martha’s Vineyard. He seeks the help ...