America’s favorite lovable loser Charlie Brown and his faithful dog snoopy are headed to the big screen in 2015. The peanuts gang recently celebrated their 62^nd birthday and now the wonderful world of Charles Schulz is being made into a feature length film by Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios. The companies made the announcement today and said that Steve Martino, who directed children’s hit like “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who” and “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” will be directing the film based on a screenplay written by the son of Charles Schulz, Craig Schulz and his grandson Bryan Schulz. The film has yet to be given a title but is expected to be released Nov. 25^th 2015, also known as the 65^th anniversary of the first appearance of the peanut comic strip and the 50^th anniversary of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas.’ “We have been working on this project for years,” said Craig Schultz. “We finally felt the time was right and the technology is where we need it to be to create this film.”

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Keri Russel, former Mouskateer and star of the hit drama Felicity, is returning to television ona new Fox series called The Americans. Joining Russel will be her former Felicity love interests Scott Speedman and Scott Foley along with Matthew Rhys and Noah Emmerich. FX president John Landgraf announced to critics this week that the pilot has been picked up and is set to premier in early 2013. The Americans will take place in Reagan era Washington D.C. Russel and Rhys will play 2 KGB spies hiding in plain sight as a married American couple with 2 children. The series will follow the relationship that evolves between the two characters, whose children no nothing about their true identities and drama will be added in the form of a counter-intelligence FBI agent neighbor played by Noah Emmerich. Landgraf said in his statement “we’re proud to welcome The Americans, a taut series that crackles with incredible performances rooted in character perspectives never explored on a U.S. television series.”

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