Apple TV+ has ordered a Fraggle Rock reboot series, picking up a full season order alongside the streaming rights to old episodes of the Jim Henson series.
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In The Morning Watch, see how The Incredibles should have ended, take a tour of the new Jim Henson museum exhibit, and learn how David Fincher uses music.
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The Jim Henson Company have announced a Fraggle Rock HBO return which would bring remastered HD versions of the old series back to the premium channel.
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A Fraggle Rock movie has been in the works since 2008 but now, almost 10 years later, it finally has a star. Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star and produce.
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After the jump: Ju-On: The Grudge is getting another sequel The Dark Crystal sequel is still in development Better Call Saul will shoot in Albuquerque Read the first chapter of the Apes prequel book Take a peek at the first Minions teaser poster 22 Jump Street reveals a couple more clips See another poster for Transformers…
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If I asked you to name the most iconic movie franchise of all time, would you say Transformers? Mark Wahlberg would -- and he's pretty sure the new one will be the biggest film of 2014. Also after the jump: Transformers 4 will use the Dolby Atmos sound system Ninja Turtles, Minions, and more are getting special…
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Jerry Nelson, one of the original Muppeteers hired by Jim Henson, died yesterday (August 23rd 2012). Even though you might not recognize the name, all of you have grown up with Jerry's performances. He puppeteered almost 1,000 named Henson puppet characters during his 47-year career, credited for performing over 120 different named characters on The…
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Thanks to Independence Day, it's been a fairly slow week for film news -- but it looks like the TV folks have been keeping themselves plenty busy over the past few days. After the jump: Danny McBride talks the surprise fourth season of Eastbound & Down A Fraggle Rock spin-off, The Doozers, will shoot in Canada this…
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A movie version of Jim Henson's '80s musical TV show Fraggle Rock has been in the works for years, and development took a good step forward when New Regency started backing the project last year. There has been speculation over whether the new film would feature classic puppets or CGI characters, though the success of…
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We've got a lot of the usual news bits about casting, renewals, and so on in today's TV Bits, but first, don't you want to read about a possible racial slur in a decades-old episode of Fraggle Rock? After the jump: A Texas man reports an offensive slur in a 1984 episode of Fraggle Rock…
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Jim Henson's hit '80s puppet TV series Fraggle Rock has been on the verge of moving to the big screen for several years. The Weinstein Company had the rights, a director, and a distinct vision of what they wanted, but years passed with very little movement save for a few scattered rumors. Deadline is now…
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There was a time when it looked like the new Muppets movie would have company in theaters from a new Fraggle Rock film. Cory Edwards (Hoodwinked) was set to write and direct the film for The Weinstein Company. But Mr. Edwards started to talk about how the Weinsteins wanted something different from what he was…
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It's been almost a year since we heard any news about a Fraggle Rock movie. That goes for the director too. As more and more properties from the Seventies and Eighties get remade, rebooted or reimagined, the idea of a Fraggle Rock movie like a no-brainer. Now Cory Edwards, the director of Hoodwinked who has…
Read MoreLast month we told you that Fraggle Rock director/screenwriter Corey Edwards had been told that The Weinstein Company has begun a wide search for a new screenwriter to come aboard the project after demanding the the script was "not edgy enough." Edwards' blog post caused a stir in the blogosphere and we now have an update…
Read MoreDirector/Screenwriter Corey Edwards has updated his blog with a note warning Fraggle Rock fans that "there are some dark days ahead, my friends." As it turns out, The Weinstein Company, who has been working with Edwards on a big screen Fraggle Rock movie, has begun a wide search for a new screenwriter to come aboard…
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Even though Christopher Weekes' script The Muppet Man 'won' last year's Black List poll of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, there was every chance it would never make it to the screen. Essentially a biopic of Jim Henson peppered with fantastical scenes starring The Muppets, it would require the involvement somehow of both the…
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In a chat with MTV, Kermit-heir Brian Henson has given the world an update on the long promised Dark Crystal sequel and Fraggle Rock spin off movie. Both, he tells us, are progressing nicely and could be entering pre-production soon. Blimey. I'm not too disbelieving about the Fraggle picture but the perennially on-off Dark Crystal…
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You probably remember Gallery 1988 as the Los Angeles-based art gallery which hosts the pop-culture infused Crazy4Cult show every year. We've featured artwork from their exhibitions in previous editions of cool stuff: Beastie Boys Inspired Art, Crazy4Cult 2, and Stan Lee Tribute. From April 2nd to April 23rd, Gallery 1988 is celebrating their 5th year…
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Cory Edwards is hard at work writing the screenplay for The Weinstein Co's upcoming Fraggle Rock movie, and has completed almost 50-pages of his first draft based on an extensive 17-page studio approved outline. "[The outline] is the product of many meetings with the Henson and Weinstein folks, and has every little story beat we…
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For some kids it was Sesame Street, for others it was the Smurfs, for my best friend Jon it was Nightmare on Elm Street (which explains... a lot), but for me I grew up watching Fraggle Rock. I've always believed that the Jim Henson created 1983 television show was vastly underrated. Meanwhile the characters have…
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In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, MINDStyle has announced plans to release a series of Fraggle Rock vinyl figures later this year. The initial line-up will include: Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red, Uncle Traveling Matt, The Trash Heap, Sprocket, King Gorg, a Fraggle, and the Doozers, each of which will…
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