Monday Mix-Up: The Muppets in ‘Spider-Monster: The Musical’!
It’s not really Monday anymore, but this is way too good to let wait. Click here to view the embedded video. Yes, it’s short… it’s still in previews. You’ll see the full thing in the fall, but you...
View ArticleKermit Leaves Muppets for the Green Lantern Corps?
One look at this pic and we had to drop everything and post this. Everything is pointing to the forthcoming Muppet movie as a return to its roots as a genuinely funny film without resorting to crudity...
View ArticleMonday Mix-Up: Sam The Eagle as Captain America
Wait, wait, wait… are there Muppets in this poster? In spite of the giggle factor, this may be an important milestone– this may be the first official crossover between Disney and Marvel properties,...
View ArticleMickey Rooney Talks The Fox and the Hound
In the mid-1920’s, an up-and-coming young animator had a brief encounter with an up-and-coming child star. Although they only met in passing, Mickey Rooney remembers Walt Disney as “a very charming...
View ArticleOfficial D23 Announcements Focus Mainly on Pixar
For those of you who missed out on Disney’s fan fest, D23, the studio provided us with a recap which we will run intact below. But we know what you really care about is what was said and shown about...
View ArticleMIKE GOLD: Disney Does Marvel
As is well-known, the Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel Comics a little over two years ago. Marvel joined the Muppets, Pixar, ABC and ESPN as tentacles of that great evil media empire that has done...
View ArticleIn Honor Of Today’s 48th Anniversary of ‘Doctor Who’ and the Release of ‘The...
…we present to you this wonderful work by Amy Mebberson, who cut her teeth on British Muppet Mash-ups with Muppet Sherlock Holmes for BOOM! Do yourself a favor and read her charming webcomic Thorn.
View ArticleMore Muppets: It’s Not Easy Fighting Darkseid
Okay, we admit it. We are helpless before our addiction. Jack Kirby meets Jim Henson with Kermit as Mister Miracle and Miss Piggy as Big Barda. I presume Oberon is the janitor who cleanes up backstage...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Muppets’
There has been a tremendous amount of talk in our world about reboots, successful or not, and I just got back from experiencing the year’s single best relaunch of a tired property. Deb, Kate, her guy...
View ArticleJOHN OSTRANDER: Seeing Movies As Movies
I read an article in Entertainment Weekly about the collective failure of the Christmas movie season overall. Some, like Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, did well and some, such as The Adventures...
View ArticleThe Muppets Comes to DVD on March 20
If you missed seeing the return of The Muppets in, well, The Muppets, then you get another chance when the movie is released on video this March. Director James Bobin revealed all the Easter Egg...
View ArticleThe Muppets Send Up The Hunger Games
Exemplifying brilliant timing, Walt Disney has released a new parody trailer, this time skewering the eagerly awaited The Hunger Games, opening March 23. Meantime, it reminds us how funny the Muppets...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Muppets
When The Muppets opened in November, I wrote the following on my blog and it holds up now that the film is out this week on home video from Walt Disney. There has been a tremendous amount of talk in...
View ArticleJerry Nelson: 1934-2012
This is a Muppet News Flash: Puppeteer Jerry Nelson, the man behind Sesame Street muppet Count von Count, died yesterday at age 78. Nelson, a cast member of the show for over 40 years, also brought to...
View ArticleSteve Ditko – Creativity Just Beyond Reality
The Creativity of Steve Ditko • Craig Yoe • With essays by Mykal Banta, Mike Gold, Jack C. Harris, Paul Levitz, and Amber Stanton • IDW/Yoe Books • $39.99 retail It’s only fitting that I start a...
View ArticleKermit, Ricky Gervais Begin Shooting The Muppets…Again!
BURBANK, Calif. (January 30, 2013) – The filmmaking team behind 2011’s celebrated film The Muppets reunites as Disney’s The Muppets … Again! kicked off production last week in London. The all-new...
View ArticleFrom The Muppets to Richard Parker, Animated Animals in Film
It’s been a very good week for Ang Lee and novelist Yann Martel. Lee, of course, won the Best Director Oscar for The Life of Pi, adapting Martel’s magical novel. The film itself was warmly received,...
View ArticleDennis O’Neil: It’s Like A Kind Of Torture
The Cookie Monster finished duct taping Kermit to the chair, stepped back, removed a cattle prod from somewhere within his fur and growled, “Where cookie?” “I don’t know where your cookie is,” Kermit...
View ArticleREVIEW: Meet the Fraggles
One of the most amazing things about the talented and long-missed Jim Henson is that he was always creating something new, exploring news forms of storytelling and puppetry. While he may have started...
View ArticleNew Images and Trailer for Muppets Most Wanted
Disney has released new images from Muppets Most Wanted, coming in spring 2014. Additionally, a new trailer has been released. ComicMix has it all below. Genre: Family Comedy...
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