The Peanuts Movie

Spectre and The Peanuts Movie once again topped the weekend box office, but it's not like anyone offered any real competition. Despite a trio of newcomers, this weekend was all about letting those two films have a victory lap — no one wanted to release anything in the direct wake of James Bond and Charlie Brown. Their victory was always assured.

Hey, there’s a new James Bond movie. And, to the surprise of exactly no one, it did quite well at the box office. Spectre didn’t quite reach the high bar set by Skyfall, but it still had the second biggest opening in the franchise’s 53-year, 24-film history. It didn’t dominate the box office alone, either. Those too young to enjoy a new 007 movie flocked to The Peanuts Movie, which also had a very strong start.

Charlie Brown has given us enough specials for all the best holidays, but did you know the very first Christmas episode came together in a record six months? Or that it served as inspiration for The Grinch and Frosty the Snowman? Grab a blanket and brush off that dirt, as the 30th episode of ‘You Think You Know TV?’ pulls the football right out from under you with some holiday facts from Charlie Brown!

A recent featurette for The Peanuts Movie showed off the hard work that went into keeping the new film’s animation faithful to the original comic strip, and you can see that in the latest trailer for the movie, which features Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang in their first big screen outing.

Making a contemporary Peanuts movie isn’t as easy as just creating some CGI characters on a cartoony background — original comic creator Charles M. Schulz’s style of drawing beloved characters like Charlie Brown and Snoopy wasn’t entirely polished, which was part of its charm, and to replicate that feeling takes some serious attention to detail. A new featurette shows off the hard work that went into creating The Peanuts Movie and how hard the team strived to capture the spirit of Schulz’s work.

This new extended trailer for The Peanuts Movie hints at a film that's a bit more charming than you might expect. It also looks like it could be a legitimately good coming-of-age film, which seems about right with Paul Feig involved as a producer — he may be best known these days for his female-driven comedy films, but Feig is also the guy responsible for Freaks and Geeks, one of the greatest television shows of all time.