Set in a cold, eerie old mansion and centered on an angry old man who is visited by supernatural apparitions, "A Christmas Carol" is ripe for being adapted into a truly terrifying horror movie. But on Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by three ghosts, who share with him visions of the past, present, and future that teach him sorely-needed lessons that help him become a better person. Bitter at the world, Scrooge has no spirit left when the holidays roll around, and forces everyone to be as miserable as he is. The most famous Christmas story ever written, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" introduced Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old codger who seems to hate everything and everyone. ![]() Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh copyright expired at the end of 2021 (it had been 95 years since the publication of the first story), opening the floodgates for something like "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey," as long as the filmmakers were careful to stay away from things like Tigger, Winnie's red shirt and other Disney hallmarks. Sometimes, public domain material yields new hits, like Disney's 1973 "Robin Hood," 1993's "The Three Musketeers" or 2010's "Alice in Wonderland." Just as often, however, it yields uninspired clunkers like "Dracula 2000," "I, Frankenstein" or Roberto Benigni's "Pinocchio." While Disney has built a cottage industry of animated adaptations of public domain stories, what often makes public domain adaptations so compelling is that they don't have to be a faithful translation. ![]() After something enters the public domain, there's no going back anyone can use it, free of charge. Although modern copyright law can be complicated, and extensions and renewals come into play, generally speaking works enter the realm of public domain after a period of time neighboring 100 years, many determined by the date of death of the author.
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