Peanuts distribution rights. Peanuts Worldwide has partnered with Normaal Animation and France Télévisions to produce 500 90-second animated short films, adapted from the strip "Peanuts", which aired in fall 2014, including on French television station France 3. In October 2012, it was announced that a 3D computer-animated feature film titled "The Peanuts Movie" would be released on November 6, 2015, coinciding with the 65th anniversary of the debut of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the television special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Written by Charles Schulz's son, Craig, his grandson, Bryan, and Cornelius Uliano—who are also producing the film
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special) (alternatively titled "The Cat in the Hat Gets Grinched"), aired on ABC in 1982. Though credited to DePatie-Freleng, it was produced by Marvel Productions, which had taken over DePatie-Freleng in 1981. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special) How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (also known as Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!) is a 1966 Christmas animated television special directed and co-produced by Chuck Jones. It is based on the eponymous children's book by Dr. Seuss, the story of the Grinch trying to take away Christmas from the townsfolk of Whoville below his mountain hideaway. Originally telecast in the