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Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) will play the title role in Grendel, a live-action monster flick from The Jim Henson Company, for which Palisades Park Pictures is launching international sales ahead of Cannes. Grendel is the tale of the legendary monster at the heart of the Beowulf epic poem who steps…

David Barrington Holt, who was instrumental in development of the ground-breaking Henson Performance Control System, which allowed a single performer to operate complex, computer-driven puppets, died March 13 from cancer complications. His credits included George of the Jungle, The Phantom, Dr. Dolit…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has taken exclusive worldwide rights to Jim Henson’s beloved fantasy adventure movies Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, as part of a new multi-year distribution alliance with The Jim Henson Company, Deadline has learned. Under the pact, which went into effect on January 1st…

EXCLUSIVE: The Jim Henson Company and Marblemedia are using comedy to put children’s mental health under the microscope. The pair has teamed on Felix, a live-action comedy about a boy, his family and his ‘feels’ — five original characters created by Fraggle Rock maker Jim Henson’s Creature Shop that…

EXCLUSIVE: The Jim Henson Company is developing All-of-a-Kind Family, a live-action one-hour drama series about a hardworking Jewish family in Manhattan's bustling Lower East Side in 1911, based on the collection of books by Sydney Taylor. Jordana Lewis Jaffe (NCIS: Los Angeles) is attached to develop the project and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Jim Henson Company has inked a worldwide distribution deal with Shout! Factory, which will bring thirteen of Henson’s beloved series and specials to streaming, broadcast and home entertainment platforms across all territories, with Henson’s award-winning Farscape making its global AVOD premiere. In…

Jim Henson's Creature Shop animatronics and visual effects studio, based in Los Angeles, has teamed with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company to produce life-size puppets for the RSC's stage adaptation of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 hand-drawn classic My Neighbour Totoro. The RSC's most ambitious…

EXCLUSIVE: Queen Latifah’s shingle Flavor Unit Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company are developing a film adaptation of The Conductors, the fantasy debut novel by Nicole Glover. Released back in March of this year, the book introduces Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and former conductor on the Underground Railroad who…

EXCLUSIVE: The Current War and The Giver scribe Michael Mitnick has been set to write Jim Henson biopic Muppet Man for Disney and The Jim Henson Company, we can reveal. Currently in development, the live-action film will chart the life and times of the legendary puppeteer, creator of The Muppets, Fraggle Rock and many…

EXCLUSIVE: Hägar the Horrible is set to make a raid on the small screen with an animated family sitcom series in development. Fresh Off the Boat writer and producer Eric Ziobrowski is writing the adaptation, which comes from King Features, the Hearst-owned division behind the comic strip and The Jim Henson…

Heeeee-rrrrrrre’s Ned! Disney+ said today that it will stream the galaxy’s first alien-hosted talk show starting September 4. Watch a promo for Earth to Ned above and examine the key art below. Produced by The Jim Henson Company and Marwar Junction Productions, Earth to Ned is a decidedly different take on the…

Disney+ is teaming with The Jim Henson Company on what they describe as an “out-of-this-world” talk show. The upcoming streaming service has given a series order to Earth To Ned, a comedic half-hour in which Ned, a blue-skinned alien, and his lieutenant Cornelius, interview celebrity guests, Deadline has confirmed…