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R.I.P. Jane Nebel Henson, Who Helped Pull The Strings To Form The Muppets

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 3:06pm PDTTags: Jane Nebel Henson, Jim Henson, The Muppets
Mike Fleming

Jane Nebel Henson died in her Connecticut home today after a long battle with cancer. A memorial mass is planned for next week. She met Jim Henson in a puppetry class at the University of Maryland and soon after became an integral creative and business partner with him to form the Muppets. They began performing together on NBC’s D.C. affiliate station WRC-TV while she was an undergraduate. Their show, Sam And Friends, took off and soon they were doing guest spots on Steve Allen’s Tonight Show. They were married in 1959, and she gave birth to Lisa Henson, Cheryl Henson, Brian Henson, John Henson and Heather Henson. Brian is currently chairman and Lisa is CEO of The Jim Henson Co, which continues to generate Muppets films. READ MORE »

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Pixar Sets 3 Original Toons; Disney Confirms ‘Muppets 2′: CinemaCon

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 24, 2012 @ 7:42pm PDTTags: CinemaCon, Disney, Pixar, The Muppets

UPDATE: The Walt Disney Studios made news during its presentation  at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas tonight. Its upcoming slate includes new titles from its Pixar Animation Studios including two with Hispanic flavor, and confirmation of a sequel to 2011′s The Muppets:

The Muppets director James Bobin will return to helm with a script written by Bobin and Nicholas Stoller. A release date has not been announced.

The Good Dinosaur – The Pixar comedy is from director Bob Peterson, co-director Peter Sohn and producer John Walker. According to Pixar, it’s about what would happen “if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct?” It will be released in the U.S. on May 30, 2014.

Related: Hot Trailer: Disney/Pixar’s ‘Brave’

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Disney Planning A ‘Muppets’ Sequel; Sees ‘Avatar’ Park Attraction in 2015

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday March 13, 2012 @ 9:20am PDTTags: Disney, The Muppets, Theme Parks

The Muppets Movie Sequel DisneyDisney CEO Bob Iger let the frog out of the bag at the company’s annual meeting in Kansas City today. “Somewhere in my mind I know that work is being done on a sequel,” he said, … Read More »

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OSCARS: Miss Piggy And Kermit To Present

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 17, 2012 @ 10:53am PSTTags: 84th Academy Awards, Oscars, The Muppets

Beverly Hills, CA – Hollywood icons Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy will present at the 84th Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today. This is the Muppets fifth appearance at the Academy Awards.

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Fox Business Says Muppets Movie Anti-Biz

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday December 6, 2011 @ 12:01am PSTTags: The Muppets

How did we miss this? Fox Business news on the network’s “Follow the Money” program last week opined that Disney’s The Muppets movie storyline featuring an evil oil baron made it the latest example of Hollywood’s anti-corporate liberal agenda. “They’ve been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they … Read More »

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No Box Office Bounty For T-Day Weekend: ‘Breaking Dawn’ Still #1, ‘The Muppets’ #2, ‘Happy Feet’ #3, ‘Arthur Xmas’ #4, ‘Hugo’ #5

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday November 26, 2011 @ 2:31am PSTTags: Arthur Christmas, Breaking Dawn Part 1, Happy Feet Two, Hollywood box office, Hugo, My Week With Marilyn, The Artist, The Muppets, The Twilight Saga Franchise

FRIDAY PM/SATURDAY AM, 4TH UPDATE: Full analysis later this morning. But overall Thanksgiving holiday weekend moviegoing … Read More »

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‘SNL’ Ties Season High In Adults 18-49

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday November 20, 2011 @ 9:28am PSTTags: Jason Segel, Saturday Night Live, The Muppets
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Last night’s Saturday Night Live hosted by Jason Segel with musical guest Florence + The Machine, averaged a 4.6/11 in metered-market households and a 2.8/12 in adults 18-49 in Local People Meters. The late-night sketch show was up a … Read More »

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The Muppets As Oscar Hosts? …Really?

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 9, 2011 @ 5:56pm PSTTags: Brian Grazer, Facebook, The Muppets, Twitter

With freshly picked Oscars producer Brian Grazer now looking for a host, one of the first calls some people suggest he make is to The Muppets. A Facebook page has been advocating for the Muppets to host the Oscars since February 28th and … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Muppets’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 2:49pm PDTTags: Disney, Movie Trailer, The Muppets

Here’s the second trailer for Walt Disney Pictures’ The Muppets, which stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper and the whole Muppet gang. Its release date is November 23. In this one they are pumping up the celebrity cameo angle, a staple of the past Muppets films.

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Hot Parody: Disney’s ‘The Muppets’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 15, 2011 @ 11:11am PDTTags: Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Disney, James Bobin, Jason Segel, The Muppets
Mike Fleming

Taking a page from the quick-cut teaser trailer done by director David Fincher for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the makers of The Muppets have generated their own to promote the family comedy that premieres November 23 through Disney. James Bobin directs and Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Chris … Read More »

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Who Needs Comic-Con? Disney Reveals All At D23 Expo

By PETE HAMMOND | Sunday August 21, 2011 @ 2:50am PDTTags: 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Billy Crystal, Brave, Cars 2, D23 Expo, David Fincher, DreamWorks, Frankenweenie, John Carter, John Lasseter, Johnny Depp, Marvel, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Pixar, Rich Ross, Sam Raimi, Sean Bailey, The Avengers, The Help, The Lone Ranger, The Muppets, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Walt Disney
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Disney Announces Two New Pixar Films
Who needs Comic-Con when you can do it yourself?

That must be exactly what Disney is thinking as it continues its massive second annual Disney D23/ Expo, the “ultimate fan event” taking place all weekend long at the Anaheim Convention Center right next to Disneyland (the name refers to 1923, the year Walt Disney started his studio).  It’s an offshoot of the official Disney Fan Club and includes a ginormous exhibition center with every imaginable opportunity to buy Disneyana, numerous fan events and celebrity-sighting opps, and then there was today’s centerpiece: a near-three-hour preview of movies in the pipeline from Disney, Pixar and Marvel (which announced a partnership with the company in 2009 that is just now gearing up).

Call it “Mickey Con”. It’s all a bit overwhelming, so no wonder it takes three days just to get through it all. The event continues through the end of Sunday.

After his major presentation of the new Disney slate in the gargantuan arena in front of 4200 seemingly rabid fans (and a few more restrained press members), I caught up with Walt Disney Studios chairman Rich Ross in the Green Room for an exclusive interview in which he talked about the possibilities of a fifth Pirate.s of the Caribbean film as well as his first comments on the demise of  Pirates team Johnny Depp and Jerry Bruckheimer’s about-to-shoot Western The Lone Ranger, which Deadline’s Mike Fleming first reported had been dropped by Disney due to budgetary concerns on the pricey pic. When I asked Ross if there was anything new to report  he said, ”Nothing definitive. There is nothing new. I’m hoping to do it, I’m certainly hoping. I think it’s a compelling story and no one wants to work with Jerry and Johnny more than me, so we’ll see how it works.” And about the possibility of a fifth Pirates? The situation is obviously clouded with the Lone Ranger situation, but again he used the word “hopeful.” Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Muppets’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday June 20, 2011 @ 10:49am PDTTags: Disney, Movie Trailer, The Muppets

After a tease clip debuted last month, this is the real-deal trailer for Disney’s The Muppets, which will bow Nov. 23. The movie, directed by James Bobin, stars Jason Segel and Amy Adams and of course Kermit and the gang.

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Muppets’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday May 23, 2011 @ 12:20pm PDTTags: Disney, The Muppets, Trailer

Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and Gonzo are all back Nov. 23 for Disney’s The Muppets movie directed by James Bobin, produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, and written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller:

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