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Get Ready for ‘The Muppets…Again!’

January 30, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan 2 Comments divider image

Disney’s crack team behind the 2011 Muppets movie are back in action as they kick off production for the upcoming sequel The Muppets…Again! in London. The all new global Muppet adventure brings in new stars Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell and Tina Fey, who will join Kermit, Miss Piggy, Walter and the [...]

Warner Bros. Ratchets Up Animation Feature Push

January 7, 2013 by Ramin Zahed 3 Comments divider image

Warner Bros. Studios is making a big push to produce more animated features at the studio in order to compete with Disney, Sony, Fox and Universal. Deadline.com reports that the studio has formed a “feature creative consortium” to produce at least one animated feature per year. John Requa and Glenn [...]

Ty Burrell to Star in ‘The Muppets’ Sequel

December 9, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Modern Family’s Ty Burrell has joined the cast of Disney’s upcoming sequel to 2011’s The Muppets movie. Oscar-winning Austrian actor Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds) was originally in talks to play the role, but schedule conflicts prevented him from going through with the deal. The November 2013 release is directed and [...]

Upcoming Pixar Projects Unveiled at CinemaCon

April 25, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Attendees at yesterday’s CinemaCon event in Las Vegas learned all about Pixar’s upcoming animated slate and found out details about the sequel to Disney’s Muppets movie. Here is the Pixar slate: The Good Dinosaur. Directed by Bob Peterson with co-director Peter Sohn and producer John Walker. This comedy takes a look [...]

Miss Piggy and Kermit Ready for ‘Muppet’ Sequel

March 1, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

It was really a no-brainer. After Disney made over $154 million at the box office worldwide, the studio would be crazy not to order a follow-up. Variety reports that the Mouse House has greenlit a sequel to The Muppets with the film’s original director James Bobin and co-writer Nicholas Stoller. [...]

Disney Unveils New Muppets Movie Poster

May 18, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Another day, another hot new movie poster is unveiled! Today, it’s Disney’s official poster for the highly anticipated feature The Muppets that has fans all excited. Slated for a November 23 release, it is directed by James Bobin (The Flight of the Conchords, Da Ali G Show) from a script [...]