Not much had been heard from the Muppets since the 1990s.
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And the villain of Disney's most recent film, "The Muppets, " is an oil baron intent on drilling for oil at the site of the Muppets' theater.
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The 2011 film The Muppets won an Oscar and was a box office hit, and British actor Ricky Gervais is playing the lead role in the sequel The Muppets...
She offered a deal to develop their script and they came up with an old school Muppets movie, where the Muppets have to put on a show to save the studio.
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Some, including his Muppets and Fraggles, appeared in both television shows and movies, among them the 1984 film "The Muppets Take Manhattan, " which depicted the fuzzy crew striving to stage a Broadway musical.
Some, including his Muppets and Fraggles, appeared in both television shows and movies among them the 1984 film "The Muppets Take Manhattan, " which depicted the fuzzy crew striving to stage a Broadway musical.
" He wrote 10 nonfiction books, four mystery novels and three children's books, played himself in the movies "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and "The First Wives Club" and hosted "Saturday Night Live.
But he has to be on the side of the angels: he looked after Jim Henson, the hippy genius behind the Muppets, for 30 years, and gave the address at his funeral.
Structurally, "The Muppets" is simple: Miss Piggy is the star of a late-night show, Kermit is her executive producer, and some assortment of available Henson characters, both new and old, are working behind the scenes.
The polished nature of that presentation may have set a false expectation that "The Muppets" was ready to arrive fully formed, while the first two episodes are typical of most comedy pilots: more potential than achievement.
This year, Bret McKenzie's Man or Muppet from The Muppets beat Real in Rio, from Rio, to win the accolade.
The Muppets never have lacked for emotional nuance, but in exploring the reality of their lives, a demystifying occurs that isn't always for the best when it comes to the Muppet legacy in your mind.
So far, there's some laughter in the early episodes of "The Muppets" and a ton of built-in affection, but the wait for a great show continues.
According to tracking data, The Muppets will come out on top not because kids are so excited to see the film but because their parents will drag them to see it.
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The Miss Piggy-Kermit news that you read about was never even really news because it was always part of the proof-of-concept presentation that convinced ABC to order "The Muppets, " co-created by Bob Kushell and Bill Prady, in the first place a presentation that ABC made available to the public.
Miss Piggy and Kermit get to be the A-story every week, which makes sense because they're the money Muppets, but doesn't always set the best of tones because frenzied Piggy and surly Kermit are not necessarily native incarnations of either character.
Daoud Kuttab, executive producer of "Shara'a Simsim, " knows that the Muppets are highly effective communicators.
Three family movies hit theaters this holiday weekend: The Muppets, Hugo and Arthur Christmas.
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" One of those times included "taking Shiloh, Zahara and Pax to see 'the Muppets.
He's also put Hampton in charge of Disney's latest acquisition: the Muppets.
Fears from certain paranoid quarters that "The Muppets" would yield an excessively adult, and therefore smutty, version of these beloved, family-friendly characters are, of course, unfounded.
He describes it as Lord of the Rings meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets The Muppets, with a little bit of Stars Wars thrown in.
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He compares Thomas and Camby who played for the Knicks in the 1990s and love to critique their younger teammates' clothing to the theater hecklers from the Muppets.
The Muppets always have relied on a suspension of disbelief to pre-empt this sort of intrusive reality-based questioning, but the premise of their new show seems to demand belief.
The Muppets have, in many of their incarnations, sustained a certain amount of double entendre, and this documentary-style glimpse behind the scenes doesn't remove the gauzy filter in any way.
The company has tried to contact him for more information about his accusations, including that he saw five managing directors call their clients "muppets" in the past year.
My interpretation of the negative money flow in Apple is that the muppets who were fed Apple at higher prices by Wall Street were reducing their positions.
People start calling it flesh-eating bacteria, that a few years - maybe more than a decade ago, when Jim Henson, the Muppets creator died, that was actually strep, which is a different bacteria.
The song was first published in 1913 and has resulted in hundreds of recorded versions by acts ranging from Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, The Pogues and Johnny Cash to The Muppets.
The lights went down again, the horn player rebooted, and a spotlight revealed Mayweather and Cotto standing in opposing box seats, like a boxing version of Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets.
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