Puppetry: Coming Soon To A Theatre Near You?
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Tag Archives: The Jim Henson Company
Sid the Science Kid explains DTV
Sid the Science Kid helps explain digital television for the PBS Kids set.
Confused about this whole DTV thing that everybody (in the U.S. anyway) has been talking about? Well, let Sid the Science Kid help you make sense of it.
Kanye West’s Creature
Kanye West’s recent Glow In The Dark tour featured a giant animatronic creature built by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
Remember that big animatronic puppet that Jim Henson’s Creature Shop was building for Kanye West last year? Well, Sean – who along with his brother Patrick was part of the team that built the monster – sent [...]
Creature Shop Open House Recap
Puppeteers bring characters to life with the Jim Henson Company’s patented Henson Digital Performance Studio.
Debra Kaufman has written a nice recap of the previously-blogged Siggraph/Visual Effects Society event at the Creature Shop (see previous post). A couple people who were there Tuesday night wrote in to tell me about it yesterday; it sounds like it [...]
L.A. Weekly Talks to Brian Henson
Brian Henson spoke with L.A. Weekly about the Jim Henson Company’s improv puppet work.
L.A. Weekly recently sat down for a chat with Brian Henson. In the interview Brian talks about Puppet Up! Uncensored, which has one of its monthly shows at Avalon Hollywood in L.A. tomorrow night at 8 p.m.
Via Tough Pigs.
Spike Jonze Talks About Where The Wild Things Are
Acclaimed director Spike Jonze is adapting the children’s classic Where The Wild Things Are in to a feature film (photo via Ain’t It Cool News).
There’s been a lot of online nervousness and speculation about Spike Jonze’s feature film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are (see previous post). Very little information and even fewer [...]
Behind the Scenes of Sid the Science Kid
The new digital puppetry series Sid the Science Kid (see previous post) is now on the air and TV Guide recently went behind the scenes to see how the Jim Henson Company creates it. The Wall Street Journal has also been covering the show’s unique production process.
Speaking of which, Brian Henson was in Silver Spring, [...]
New Henson TV Shows
Sid The Science Kid is just one of several new shows coming to TV from the Jim Henson Company.
The Jim Henson Company must be a busy place to be these days; they’ve got a bunch of new projects in the works, including the previously-blogged Fraggle Rock movie and three new TV shows for kids! Jim [...]
Fraggle Rock Feature Film Going Ahead
The Jim Henson Company’s planned feature film version of Fraggle Rock is moving ahead.
First, the good news: The Weinstein Company has given the go-ahead to the Jim Henson Company’s Fraggle Rock feature film, which has been in development for a couple years (see previous post). This makes a lot of sense because the Weinsteins want [...]
Go See Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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 musical [...]
