TV Barn (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yes, I remember this show. But just because it had the name "Jim Henson" on it doesn't mean it was good. It was based on a live action puppet episode of the anthology series "The Jim Henson Hour." That particular...
Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fozzie Bear, Animal, Kermit, and Miss Piggy were fine on their own, but Jim Henson's nutty puppet party made a sublime art of the cameo, picking people who could very well have been Muppets themselves. Walking caricatures like Sylvester Stallone, Raquel Welch, Alice Cooper, and Gilda Radner appear on this third season, which peaks with Liberace, clad like a vampire bullfighter — and bragging...
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Irwin Shaw, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, short-story writer, Davos, Switzerland, 1984; Jim Henson, puppeteer, humorist, New York City, 1990. Quote for the Day: "False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news." — Adrienne Rich, who was born today in 1929 This day in Literature 1699: Philosopher John Locke writes to Samuel Bold with the observation...
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117985529.html Weinsteins roll with 'Fraggle Rock' Edwards to write, direct live-action musical By MICHAEL FLEMING Mon., May 12, 2008 The Weinstein Co. will turn the Jim Henson series "Fraggle Rock" into a live-action musical feature. Cory Edwards, who directed the animated "Hoodwinked!" for TWC, will helm the picture and write the screenplay. The Jim Henson...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Oh, and that's not all. You see, Jim Henson's Muppet spinoff show Fraggle Rock is apparently coming back... as a live-action movie musical. Harvey Weinstein actually told Variety that this project was, in fact, the reason why he and brother...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Darth Mojo has an incredibly cool and detailed post covering the new and classic style Cylon Centurions , as seen in Razor . Check out all the robot goodness. There's even a part 2 with even more stuff. The re-make/adaptation madness continues. This time, Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock is being made into a live action.....musical. The music in FR works well with singing puppets, but live action?...
monochrom (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The Weinstein Co. will turn the Jim Henson series "Fraggle Rock" into a live-action musical feature. Link
Ypulse (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... with an accessory line made from recycled doll clothes) (Salon.com, day pass or sub required) - Jim Henson's "Fraggle Rock" will soon be a live-action musical (and in other Jim Henson news, New Balance will soon debut a line of "Sesame Street" sneakers ) (Variety) (Adweek) - Mothers react to the latest teen body art trend, the inner-lip tat (getting ink in the most indiscreet place...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Beloved kids’ TV series FRAGGLE ROCK is the latest show to be given a big-screen makeover. The Jim Henson-created programme is set to be made into a film by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, and will follow the lives of puppets including Gogo, Wembley, Boober and Red. The film is slated for a 2009 release. Movie & Entertainment News [...]
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The Weinstein's love for the Asians is well documented… they love to buy, abuse, shelve, and then dump onto DVD as many great Asian films as they can. Well apparently that fetish has grown tiresome as now they're turning their predatory eyes elsewhere. Towards the children! Variety is reporting that The Weinstein Company has joined forces with The Jim Henson Co. to produce a Fraggle Rock live...
Mod-Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
I never really watched the show, but I had/have lots of friends who did. So, I'm fairly certain they will be excited about a Fraggle Rock movie that is being produced. Fortunately it'll be produced in large part by Jim Henson Co., so at least it'll be somewhat like my friends remember.
Wizbang Pop! (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The Weinstein Co. will turn the Jim Henson series "Fraggle Rock" into a live-action musical feature. Cory Edwards, who directed the animated "Hoodwinked!" for TWC, will helm the picture...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
WHEREAS, The Weinstein Company is a theatrical releasing venture co-owned by the brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein, andWHEREAS, Fraggle Rock was a 1980s-era HBO children's television series developed and produced by the late Muppets creator Jim Henson, andWHEREAS, The Weinstein Company reportedly will join the Jim Henson Co. in adapting Fraggle Rock as a feature film, andWHEREAS, Fraggle...
A view on PR from Silicon Valley (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
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 to develop family-friend franchises and Fraggle Rock...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... series, it will also be part musical. Together with Jason Segel's new Muppets movie, it looks like Jim Henson's work is currently undergoing a bit of a resurgence. Maybe we’ll finally see that Dark Crystal sequel greenlit again too?
