I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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European Buildings built out of paper by Megan Brain.
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Hand craved foam puppet head by Phil Fletcher.
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Simpsons couch gag animated by John K.
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Peter Jackson’s cult classic Meet The Feebles screens as part of the Midnight Marionettes series this weekend in Toronto. The Fox Theatre in Toronto is reviving its Midnight Movies at the Fox series by screening a couple great puppet movies this weekend in an event they call “Midnight Marionettes”. Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds Are Go is...
Jason Segal writes a Dracula puppet musical in the new feature film Forgetting Sarah Marshall. If you’re looking for something to do this weekend go see Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It’s a great comedy with a great cast, including Russell Brand who almost steals the movie. Especially neat is that the finale involves a Dracula puppet...
A biopic of Muppet creator Jim Henson is preparing to go before the cameras this summer. A report hit the web today that Empire Films is planning a biographical movie about Jim Henson called “Henson”. According to the Muppet Newsflash, Empire plans to start production later this summer with a budget of $30-million and a...
Josh Harnett will star in a new movie called Bunraku. Actor Josh Harnett – who’s been on a good run in Hollywood acting in blockbusters like Sin City and Pearl Harbour – is headed to Romania to shoot a new film called Bunraku, which he describes as taking place in a “weird kind of papier-mâché...
Wool War II rages and times are tough for sock puppets. Terrence M. Cotton, a washed-up gumshoe, finds himself knee-high in debt and praying for a big case. Enter Heelda Brum, a finely spun piece of high-end hosiery who hires Cotton to find Darnell, her missing mate. Cotton takes the missing sock case but the...
Well, I suppose that it was inevitable…the extended version of the simulated sex scene from Team America has surfaced online. While this sequence is very similar to what was seen in theatres, certain shots (you may be able to guess which ones) had to be edited out of the theatrical version in order to avoid...
It’s disappointing to hear that despite great word of mouth and a ton of publicity Team America opened the weekend box office in the number three position behind Friday Night Lights and Dreamworks’ latest Pixar rip-off, Sharktale, which held strong at number one for the second week in a row. Still, it could have been...
Less than a week to go until Team America hits theatres (a sneak preview is available today in select cities) and National Public Radio has a story about their visit to the set and discusses the technical problems Matt Stone and Trey Parker encountered while making the film – filming has been so hectic production...
