Only Jean Schulz has the final say whether Steve Martino's "The Peanut Movie" is going to have a sequel or not, despite the film's success.
Schulz, the widow of "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz, expressed her thoughts about the film's success. In her interview with The Wrap, Jean said that his husband Charles would have been very delighted with "The Peanut Movie" and its success. However, she said that she was no rush to produce a sequel. Jean said that Martino's film had taken eight years, so a sequel might had to be talked again.
According to Cinema Blend, acquiring the core of its source material factored in to the success of "The Peanut Movie." Should Jean give a greenlight for a sequel, then fans who have seen the first film would appreciate the next one.
"The Peanut Movie" follows the iconic beagle Snoopy as he and his friend embark on a huge quest, which is to track their arch-nemesis, while Charlie Brown begins his own mission back home.
After its release on Nov. 6, the film has gotten an estimated domestic gross of $45.9 million and foreign gross of $4.6 million, for an estimated gross of $.50.5 million on a global scale. It followed Sam Mendes' James Bond film "Spectre," which has made an estimated gross of $294.9 million worldwide.
"The Peanut Movie" stars the voices of Trombone Shorty, Rebecca Bloom, Anastasia Bredikhina, Francesca Capaldi, Kristin Chenoweth, Alexander Garfin, Noah Johnston, Hadley Belle Miller, Noah Schnapp as Brown and Bill Melendez as Snoopy, among others.
Coming at the third spot is Ridley Scott's sci-fi film "The Martian," with a weekend domestic gross of $.9.3 million. It is followed by Rob Letterman's fantasy adventure film "Goosebumps," which had a weekend domestic gross of nearly $7 million. Meanwhile, hitting the fifth spot is Steven Spielberg's thriller film "Bridge of Spies," which got a weekend domestic gross of $6 million.
Martino's "The Peanut Movie" is still showing in theaters.