FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WARNER HOME VIDEO
BRINGS ALL-TIME FAVORITE, HOLIDAY PEANUTS FAMILY CLASSICS
TO CONSUMERS ON BLU-RAY™ HI-DEF FOR THE FIRST TIME
WITH THE RELEASE OF
PEANUTS HOLIDAY COLLECTION
OCTOBER 5, 2010
Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales Will Also be Released on the Same Day
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on Blu-Ray Hi-Def for the First Time on 9/7/10
All Titles are Re-mastered and Feature Bonus Material
BURBANK, CA (July 19, 2010) – This holiday season, consumers will have an
opportunity to enjoy some of their all-time favorite animated Peanuts television specials
in a whole new way, when Warner Home Video (WHV) releases the Peanuts Holiday
Collection on Blu-ray™ hi-def format for the first time on October 5, 2010. Peanuts
Holiday Collection, which is comprised of three beloved specials including A Charlie
Brown Thanksgiving, A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s a Great Pumpkin Charlie
Brown.
Available separately on October 5, WHV will also offer consumers Charlie Brown’s
Christmas Tales, with an order due date set for August 31, 2010. A Charlie Brown
Thanksgiving which will be released on Blu-ray™ hi-def format for the first time on
September 21, 2010.
Peanuts Holiday Collection BD features a set of three of the most popular and
memorable Peanuts seasonal classics and loads of bonus episodes. The specials will
come in a Blu-ray + DVD Pack which includes both the Blu-ray and DVD editions of the
specials.
Peanuts Holiday Collection BD Featured Specials:
* A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving – In this Emmy® Award-winning special, Peppermint
Patty invites herself to Charlie Brown’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. Marcie and
Franklin are soon added as dinner guests. Charlie Brown admits that his culinary skills
are limited to “cold cereal and maybe toast.” Snoopy and Woodstock transform the pingpong table in the backyard into a dinner table. As the guests arrive, they are each served
two slices of buttered toast, some pretzel sticks, popcorn and jelly beans. Patty is
outraged at the meal and berates Charlie Brown until embarrassed and dejected, he leaves
the table and goes back into the house.
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* It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown – This Emmy® Award-nominated special, finds
the Peanuts gang outfitted in costumes, ready for trick or treating and crashing Violet’s
Halloween party. Charlie Brown is in a ghost costume (with more eyeholes cut out than
needed), Lucy dressed as a witch and Snoopy in a World War I flying ace costume. Linus
decides to steadfastly hold vigil in the pumpkin patch as he awaits the Great Pumpkin.
* A Charlie Brown Christmas – In this Emmy® and Peabody Award winning classic,
Charlie Brown is upset by how commercial the Christmas holiday has become. To coax
him out of his holiday blues, Lucy suggests he direct the school’s Christmas pageant and
decorate a glorious tree. Charlie Brown concedes. The tree he finds however, is puny,
prompting everyone to ridicule him.
Peanuts Holiday Collection BD Bonus Episodes:
* The Mayflower Voyagers – In this bonus episode from the This is America, Charlie
Brown Series, the Peanuts kids become Pilgrims Sailing to the New World Aboard the
Mayflower and Enduring the First Hard Winter on Plymouth Plantation.
* It’s Magic, Charlie Brown – This bonus episode finds Snoopy putting on a show after
he checks out a book on magic tricks from the library. With Marcie and Sally as his
assistants, he performs many tricks (some that work and some that don’t) before an
audience. The grand finale features the biggest trick of all, making Charlie Brown
disappear. To everyone’s amazement, Snoopy makes him invisible but doesn’t know
how to bring Charlie Brown back. Will Snoopy find a way to reverse the trick?
* It’s Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown – This bonus episode is the second
Christmas-themed Peanuts episode since A Charlie Brown Christmas. Holiday
preparations include Charlie Brown selling wreaths door-to-door to make extra money,
Peppermint Patty sweating out an important book report and the entire crew appearing in
a Christmas pageant.
Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales, which originally premiered on ABC in 2002, is
comprised of a series of delightful animated vignettes, each of which showcase a
different member of the Peanuts gang.
The rarely seen Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? is also featured on this release. Charlie
Brown and pals face the departure of Linus and Lucy, who must move when their father
transferred to a job in another town
WHV will also release the Emmy® Award winning classic A Charlie Brown
Thanksgiving on Blu-ray™ hi-def format for the first time. This release will come in a
Blu-ray + DVD Pack which includes a Blu-ray and DVD. Special features include a
bonus episode, The Mayflower Voyagers and a new featurette titled The Making of a
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. This featurette takes a look at the final installment of the
Peanuts holiday trilogy and what it meant to its creators.
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“To many, watching these seasonal specials on TV each year has turned into an important
tradition. We wanted to capture these programs in one beautiful collection and preserve
them in gorgeous Blu-ray definition so that they could be shared with future generations,”
said Amit Desai, WHV Vice President of Family, Animation & Partner Brands
Marketing. He added, “Peanuts Holiday Collection is a must-have DVD compilation. It
features some of Charles Schulz’s greatest work and we are proud to offer it to
consumers.”
Other classic animated Peanuts specials available in stores now from WHV include It’s
the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown BD (available in a Blu-ray + DVD Pack which
includes a Blu-ray and DVD and in a standard definition edition), Peanuts Holiday
Collection (standard definition edition), I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown
Deluxe Edition (standard definition edition), A Charlie Brown Christmas BD (Bluray™ hi-def format and standard definition editions) and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Deluxe Edition (standard definition edition).
Important Information for Retailers
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving BD and Peanuts Holiday Collection BD will both be
available in Blu-ray + DVD Packs from WHV on September 7, 2010 and October 5,
2010 respectively. Peanuts Holiday Collection BD will retail for $42.93 SRP and A
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving BD will retail for $24.98 SRP with order due dates set for
August 3 and 31, 2010 respectively. Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales will also be
available from WHV on October 5, 2010 and will retail for $14.97 SRP. Order due date
has been set for August 31, 2010.
Advertising
The release of Peanuts Holiday Collection BD, will be supported by an extensive
national online media campaign estimated to generate millions of impressions among
Peanuts collectors and kids and moms of kids ages 6-11.
The Basics
Peanuts Holiday Collection BD
Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
Street Date:
October 5, 2010
Order Due Date:
August 31, 2010
DVD SRP:
$42.93
Peanuts Holiday Collection BD
$14.97
Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
UPC #:
Peanuts Holiday Collection BD
Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
883929101191 (BD)
883929084579
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving BD
Street Date:
September 7, 2010
Order Due Date:
August 3, 2010
DVD SRP
$24.98
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving BD
UPC#
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving BD
883929145478 (BD)
The Credits
About Peanuts Worldwide
Iconix Brand Group, in a joint venture with Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates has
formed Peanuts Worldwide, a new home to the global PEANUTS property and a wide
range of other brands including Fancy Nancy, Raggedy Ann & Andy, Dilbert, Hallmark’s
Rainbow Brite, hoops&yoyo and Maxine, Babymouse, Dirty Dancing, Deadliest Catch,
Iron Chef America, Pet Project, Ed Emberley, Poptropica, and Goodnight Moon.
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About Warner Home Video
With operations in 90 international territories, Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros.
Entertainment Company, a division of the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group,
commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner
Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and
vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle
Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.
About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
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home video, digital distribution, interactive entertainment/videogames, direct-to-DVD
production, technical operations and anti-piracy businesses in order to maximize current
and next-generation distribution scenarios. WBHEG is responsible for the global
distribution of content through DVD, electronic sell-through and VOD, and delivery of
theatrical content to wireless and online channels, and is also a significant worldwide
publisher for both internal and third party videogame titles.
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