{"id":2204879,"date":"2025-12-19T01:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2204879"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:30:45","slug":"sony-acquires-peanuts-majority-stake-from-wildbrain-for-457-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sony-acquires-peanuts-majority-stake-from-wildbrain-for-457-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Acquires \u2018Peanuts\u2019 Majority Stake From WildBrain for $457 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0001799\/\">Sony<\/a> has acquired the majority stake in \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt13957868\/\">Peanuts<\/a>\u201d from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0765605\/\">WildBrain<\/a> for $457 million, the companies announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, and the rest of the Peanuts will now be under Sony\u2019s umbrella after they acquired the 41% of the rights previously held by WildBrain. Sony now owns 80% of the \u201cPeanuts\u201d rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Peanuts\u2019 is enduring and iconic,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8407096\/\">Ravi Ahuja<\/a>, President and CEO, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0732568\/\">Sony Pictures Entertainment<\/a>, said. \u201cWe value the deep collaboration we have with our Smej colleagues and look forward to building on their meaningful partnership with WildBrain and the Schulz family. With our combined strengths, we have the unique capability and extraordinary opportunity to protect and shape the future of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has acquired the majority stake in \u201cPeanuts\u201d from WildBrain for $457 million, the companies announced Thursday. Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, and the rest of the Peanuts will now be under Sony\u2019s umbrella after they acquired the 41% of the rights previously held by WildBrain. Sony now owns 80% of the \u201cPeanuts\u201d rights. \u201c\u2018Peanuts\u2019 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2204882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2204879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sony-Acquires-\u2018Peanuts-Majority-Stake-From-WildBrain-for-457-Million.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204883,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204879\/revisions\/2204883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}