{"id":358161,"date":"2025-12-19T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358161\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:06:08","slug":"sony-has-bought-more-peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358161\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Has Bought More &#8220;Peanuts&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sony-has-bought-more-peanuts.jpg\" data-caption=\"20th Century Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sony-has-bought-more-peanuts.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sony-has-bought-more-peanuts\"\/><\/a>20th Century Studios<\/p>\n<p>Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan have acquired a significant stake in Peanuts Holding LLC.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the company that controls the IP rights of Charles M. Schulz\u2019s beloved \u201cPeanuts\u201d characters like Charlie Brown and Snoopy.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase price was disclosed as around $460 million and covers all of the 41% stake previously held by Canadian kids and family entertainment company WildBrain.<\/p>\n<p>The result of this deal means that Sony, which already had a stake in the venture, will now own 80% of Peanuts Holdings, with members of the Schulz family owning the remaining 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Sony will now focus on keeping the characters around and building up the brand.<\/p>\n<p>20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios previously produced \u201cThe Peanuts Movie\u201d in 2015, which was well received.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/sony-is-buying-peanuts-022341467.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/cameron-shoots-down-damons-avatar-claim\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Shoots Down Damon\u2019s \u201cAvatar\u201d Claim<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/youtube-shuts-down-ai-movie-trailers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube Shuts Down AI Movie Trailers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th Century Studios Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan have acquired a significant stake in Peanuts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-358161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}