Part of the issue involves the fact no one knows who owns the licensing rights to the Archie characters - the lender, Raven Capital, claims they acquired those rights through a previous foreclosure and that Archie Comics’s 2025 deal with Universal for a film violated them.
“New York, please look after this bear”: after making a smash in London Paddington is set to cross the pond and land on Broadway this spring.
The final episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” featured a joke about multiple lawsuits over the unauthorized use of Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” soundtrack, leading to Colbert’s band performing “Linus and Lucy” in the hopes CBS would be forced to pay.
Jason Mendelson, son of the “Peanuts” producer, called the Colbert joke “funny and entertaining” and hoped that it would bring awareness to the studio’s current campaign informing the public that Vince Guaraldi’s iconic music cannot be publicly used without their permission.
Jealous of his more well-known brother from the opposite pole, the imperfect Anta Claus attempts to discover the secret to a perfect Christmas while discovering in the process that it’s not how it’s celebrated but who it’s celebrated with.
Ah, my favorite WWF wrestler, No Face from Spirited Away
Archie Comics is no stranger to legal troubles, and they are currently in the middle of a bizarre, complicated one as a company they have owed $40 million to since 2022 is threatening to foreclose at auction, risking a 25% stake in the company: www.9fin.com/insights/deb...
Mickey Mouse will star in a new Disney Jr. Christmas special paying homage to the now-Disney-owned “Home Alone”.
“Mickey Home Alone” sees Mickey and Pluto left behind on Christmas as a raccoon and weasel try to steal their Christmas dinner.
The folks at Lee Mendelson Productions loved the joke - but still required CBS to pay as Colbert predicted. In the spirit of goodwill, they’ll be donating the undisclosed amount to Chef José Andrés World Central Kitchen.
Cordell Barker, who directed the iconic short “The Cat Came Back” for the National Film Board of Canada, is returning to animation with a Christmas special from the NFB and Tonic DNA, “The Anta Claus of the South Pole”:
