• MrFappy@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    The movie that was made about them in 2015 cost 99M and made 246M worldwide, which in movie rules is ~50M profit, which is absolute pittance compared to most movies considered successful, especially the computer animated ones.

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      12 days ago

      The brand… not just the movies.

      Go to any department store… Peanuts is all over the place.

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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        12 days ago

        Genital herpes are all over the place too but that doesn’t mean it’s what people want. Peanuts IP seems like itd only be valuable to out-of-touch boomer CEOs, a group that’s only going to continue to shrink with time.