The popular dispensers, which come in a wide variety of character designs, are to be the basis for a new animated filmThe success of The Lego Movie has opened the floodgates for film spin-offs of previously unthinkable products and crazes. Following the news that Sony Pictures has greenlit a movie about emoji, it has now emerged that an animated film is in the works featuring Pez dispensers.Deadline reports that the novelty dispensers – whose flip-up heads have been produced in a wide variety of designs – are set to become the centre of a film that, if it proves successful, could emulate Lego’s all-embracing product-to-screen “universe”.