There’s trouble brewing in post-production on Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. I don’t know if you’ve heard or not yet, but Spike Jonze is directing a film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are featuring puppets and hybrid animatronic/CG characters from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Spy reports from early screenings have [...]
Director Anthony Minghella has passed away at the age of 54. I just read the sad news that filmmaker Anthony Minghella has died. He is best known for directing films like The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain and won a Best Director Oscar for The English Patient, but got one of his first big breaks [...]
“SUDS” is the latest offering from the Henson Company’s grown-up Henson Alternative brand. It looks like the latest project from The Jim Henson Company’s “Henson Alternative” brand is SUDS. “SUDS” is an acronym for Simian Undercover Detective Squad, which – as the Tough Pigs point out – for better or worse tells you just about [...]
The Henson Company is launching another adult-oriented project at TBS.com; Del’s Vegas Comedy Binge features Del Kastle – a puppet character from the 2006 Henson/TBS pilot The Late Night Buffet (see previous post) – in a new series of webisodes. Posted so far are five videos of Del at the recent Comedy Festival in Las [...]
The Skrumps are featured in a bunch of new content on Yahoo Kids. This is kind of old news, but there’s some new-ish content featuring the Henson Company’s digital puppetry characters The Skrumps (see previous post) available on Yahoo Kids. The new material includes four new Skrumps videos, ecards and a few other downloadable goodies. [...]
Comicon wrapped up last weekend in San Diego and The Jim Henson Company was there with a booth promoting several different projects including The Skrumps (see previous post) and a new project called Tinseltown, “about a bull named Samson Knight and a pig named Bobby Vegan, a mismatched gay couple living in Hollywood,” that is [...]
Julianne Buescher recently did an interview with The Muppet Newsflash blog. The Muppet Newsflash has posted a new interview with puppeteer Julianne Buescher, best known for her work on oodles of Henson and Muppet projects including Puppet Up. It’s a great read and you can check it out here. In addition to Julianne’s interview there [...]
Sir Linit and his spray come to the rescue of a Housewife’s laundry in this classic 1960s Muppet ad. Here’s another fantastic vintage Henson commercial. This is one of four ads that Muppets, Inc. produced for Linit Fabric Finish in 1966. The ad features a talking spray-can knight named Sir Linit, performed by Jim Henson. [...]
The TAG Blog reports that the Henson Company is diving deeper in to animation. Henson is partnering with the Weinstein Brothers to produce three new animated direct-to-video features called “Unstable Fables” – Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs and Tortoise and The Hare. Henson put out a press release about this a [...]
Jim Henson (seen above with the head of Junior Gorg from Fraggle Rock) died seventeen years ago today at the age of 53. Puppeteers and Muppet fans around the world today are remembering Jim Henson, who died seventeen years ago today. May 16th has become a sort of unofficial day of remembrance for Jim and [...]
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