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Showing posts with label peanuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peanuts. Show all posts

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Happy Halloween!

THE PERFECT PUMPKIN
Trick or Treat! Snoopy and Woodstock hit the pumpkin patch to find the perfect pumpkin for their Halloween celebrations. The Snoopy Show is available on Apple TV+.

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Peanuts producer Lee Mendelson dies at age 86

Lee Mendelson
[March 24, 1933 - December 25, 2019]
Executive-producer of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas', dies at age 86
Lee Mendelson, the executive producer behind a multitude of Charlie Brown animated specials, passed away Christmas day in his San Francisco Bay Area home. He was 86.
 
Mendelson's son Jason confirmed to CNN the cause of death was congestive heart failure after a battle with cancer.

As an executive producer, Mendelson helped bring some of the most famous newspaper comic strips into the animated world. They include Mother Goose and Grimm, Cathy, and Garfield and Friends.

His most well-known work was with Charles Schultz and the Peanuts gang. In 1965, he helped bring their first animated special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, to the small screen. He also co-wrote its classic song “Christmas Time is Here” with Vince Guaraldi.

He also produced another seminal classic, It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and through 2015 spearheaded approximately 50 Peanuts specials and series.

Jason Mendelson told CNN, “We are very sad to lose our wonderful father, but Lee would have said it was serendipitous to pass on Christmas when the song he wrote with Vince Guaraldi is being heard everywhere and the program he created with Charles Schulz and Bill Melendez is being celebrated around the world. "While it was not a great time for us, it was not a bad time for him to pass.”

Mendelson was also given a tribute by the Charles M. Schultz Museum, who tweeted the following on December 27th.

Monday, August 10, 2015

Happy Birthday, Snoopy!


THE PEANUTS MOVIE
Snoopy’s birthday is on Monday, August 10, so The Peanuts Movie director Steve Martino is showing everyone how to #DrawSnoopy to get ready for the big day. We’d love to see your drawings! Post a picture of your penciled (or penned!) puppy to your favorite social channel using hashtag #DrawSnoopy.

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the beloved “Peanuts” gang make their big-screen debut, like they’ve never been seen before, in state of the art 3D animation. Snoopy, the world’s most lovable beagle – and flying ace – embarks upon his greatest mission as he takes to the skies to pursue his arch-nemesis The Red Baron, while his best pal, Charlie Brown, begins his own epic quest. From the imagination of Charles M. Schulz and the creators of the ICE AGE films, THE PEANUTS MOVIE will prove that every underdog has his day.

Visit the official site at: http://www.peanutsmovie.com/

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Peanuts-Guardians of the Galaxy mashup

Peanuts of the Galaxy
Artist Matthew J. Fletcher has created a perfect pairing of the classic Peanuts gang and Guardians of the Galaxy's mighty misfits.  The cosmic tumblers have aligned to deliver this divine union we never realized we wanted so badly, with Lucy as Gamora, Charlie Brown as Star-Lord, Linus as Drax the Destroyer, Snoopy as Rocket Raccoon and Woodstock as a dancing Groot.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

'Peanuts' - New CGI Movie Coming Soon!

For the first time ever, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang we know and love from Charles Schulz's timeless "Peanuts" comic strip will be making their big-screen debut; like they've never been seen before in a CG-Animated Feature film in 3D.