The Santa Paws films are prequels to Santa Buddies.
Air Bud (1997) – Josh meets an abused Golden Retriever and finds out that he can play basketball.ĭisney and William Morris Agency were sued in December 2011 over the Santa Paws films being unauthorized copies of a 1991 script for Santa Paws: The Story of Santa's Dog. The concept was a "cross between Ferris Bueller and Home Alone". He intended to make his own sequel, Air Bud: The Next Generation, which was scheduled to start production in the fall of 1999. The puppies were signed to an endorsement deal by DiCicco for Milk-Bone dog biscuits for puppies.
DiCicco bred three offspring of Buddy and trained them for sports like Buddy. Also, DiCicco claimed he was not paid anything for the first film and that he owns the Air Bud rights (based on the name of this production company name). īy April 1998, DiCicco and Robert Vince, the film's producer at Keystone, had a falling out, as Keystone and Vince had gone forward with a sequel, Air Bud: Golden Receiver, without DiCicco. The film did well in the home video market. Keystone indicated that no sequel was planned. Disney's Miramax was brought on as the distribution company. He also formed his production company, Air Bud Productions, that year. He then (in 1991), approached the independent production company Keystone Entertainment to produce Air Bud, a film based on Buddy.
Kevin DiCicco's Golden Retriever Buddy was featured on " America's Funniest Home Videos" and David Letterman's " Stupid Pet Tricks". There are 14 films in the franchise, including five in the Air Bud series, seven in the Air Buddies series, and two Christmas spin-offs of the Air Buddies series. ĭisney Buddies is one of the top direct-to-DVD franchises, just behind Disney Fairies at $300 million, with the first 12 films grossing $220 million by March 2014. The Air Buddies or Disney Buddies spin-off series began in 2006 with the release of Air Buddies and it focuses on the adventures of Buddy's talking Golden Retriever puppies. Following the box office failure of Golden Receiver, the rest of the films in the series were released in direct-to-video form. The franchise began in 1997 with the theatrical release of Air Bud, followed by the theatrical release of Air Bud: Golden Receiver in 1998. Some platforms allow you to rent Santa Buddies for a limited time or purchase the movie and download it to your device.The Air Bud film series (also known as Disney Buddies) is an American film franchise based on a sports-playing Golden Retriever named Buddy, portrayed by Air Buddy. Santa Buddies is available to watch, stream, download and buy on demand at Google Play. It has received mostly poor reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 4.6. Santa Buddies is a 2009 kids & family movie with a runtime of 1 hour and 28 minutes. This makes it hard for them to pull the sleigh for Santa until the Santa buddies come to the rescue just in time for Christmas. All of the power gets turned off to the North Pole because the icicle gets a crack in it and falls, and the reindeer become powerless. Puppy Paws is one of those who doesn’t believe in the magic anymore, and through the movie, you will see how his actions change because of what he learns from spending time with Santa Paws. Santa Paws steps in to try to make others believe in the magic of the holiday. There is an icicle that is starting to melt because no one wants to believe that Santa exists anymore. Most of the action takes place at the North Pole. This is a holiday installment that features the lovable dogs from the Air Buddy series.