Paramount loses Peanuts to Warner

[radagast]

"Peanuts Properties Pulled from Paramount, Goes to Warner & Announces 2 Remastered DVDs"

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Cha...To-Warner/8197


I don't know how viable these properties are, but Paramount deserves to lose them. Maybe Warner will release these on Blu-ray.

[Joe Cain]

My wife will be pleased. Restored versions of the theatrical releases (A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Snoopy Come Home) on BD would be nice. Having the 5 big holiday favorites on a single BD would be nice, too.

[w_tanoto]

Originally Posted by radagast

"Peanuts Properties Pulled from Paramount, Goes to Warner & Announces 2 Remastered DVDs"

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Cha...To-Warner/8197


I don't know how viable these properties are, but Paramount deserves to lose them. Maybe Warner will release these on Blu-ray.

good. next, spielberg's movies. that will be a huge loss

[Rob Zuber]

Peanuts Properties Pulled from Paramount

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[jamclaur]

Awesome!

[davidPS3]

Can't wait to see what Paramount has to say on this one, what kind of spin they will weave!

[divedeeper]

Clearlyl Peanuts does not have the correct price point to continue production. Paramount cites lower costs with its other movies/media as reason for droping Peanuts. Even though Peanuts has out-sold most of its other titles, Paramount feals other titles the better choice.

Paramount CEO: "In a continued effort to remain profitable, we are looking at other ways to limit choices in the name of profit. Its more expensive to produce then other movies, so Paramount made its decision to support other, lower cost media instead"

You heard it hear first.

[NuSoardGraphite]

sweetness. I'm gonna start collecting those for my little boy, since they almost never show them on TV anymore (cept holloween...Great Pumpkin). I'm already collecting Thundercats on DVD to show my boy when he gets older...I'll add Charlie Brown collection to that as well.

[bluflu]

HaHa! Paramount has literally lost its nuts!

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Joe Cain

My wife will be pleased. Restored versions of the theatrical releases (A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Snoopy Come Home) on BD would be nice. Having the 5 big holiday favorites on a single BD would be nice, too.

And as ABNCD happens to be widescreen, that might not be a bad idea for Warner to play with their new acquisition.
(Seeing as we probably won't get classic-cartoons in Blu until Warner experiments with Bugs Bunny, and that won't come until they rationalize a collector's market for 4:3 classics...)

But, as the article points out, Warner knows they can make any cartoon look good in 4-disk Collector's sets, and unlike Paramount, WB thinks they've got an idea on how to sell all those dozens of non-holiday specials.

[The Big Blue]

Peanuts rock!

Warner will do them right. Unfortunately only sd dvd talk at this point.