Merchandise news and other info about The Muppets and Jim Henson's creations.
The poster for Jason Reitman's upcoming film about the first night of SNL, Saturday Night has been revealed and with it a look at another Muppet that will appear in the film.
Recently some behind the scenes photos of the Muppets posing for the The Muppet Movie posters were listed on ebay.
Not only did Disney have a bunch of Muppets Haunted Mansion items for D23 members, they also have a few other exclusive treats for Muppet fans as well.
For Disney cast member and employees there is a Muppets Haunted Mansion mystery pin set.
The box is shaped like a coffin and features a look at the main set of pins on the back.
and Fozzie dressed as a banana:
as well as listen to a an exclusive Insiders podcast with Gonzo, Pepe, and Miss Piggy.
Halloween may be over, but you can still stream Muppets Haunted Mansion on Disney+.
With the news that Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street will be released in theater's at the end on the mouth and the release of the trailer, we now have the first look at final poster art!
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“It was just how do we convey the idea that you’re going to hear from the people under the characters. So, there were two levels of it that intrigued me. I did a lot of sketches of ideas. Hands are an obvious gateway. But if there’s nothing on the hands, there’s no puppet covering it, all of a sudden it’s unmasked. And then if the hand is coming out of a box of some kind, and we’re going to peek into the box, we’re going to find out the story of what makes the hands move.”But not just any hands would do. Every living cast member pitched in, snapping a series of shots of their own hands in different Muppet performance positions, then sending them to Goelz. From there, a string of Pixar people cam into assist. Friend of the Muppeteers Pete Docter (Up) suggested Ratatouille composer Michael Giacchino, who suggested The Good Dinosaur director Peter Sohn for help composing this poster (see below). “Peter Sohn over at Pixar drew the safe for us,” Goelz said. Then Sohn took the hand shots of the cast, and began to fiddle in photoshop to pull them together into a pleasing picture. “Then he ran up against the wall of his photoshop skills, in terms of getting the color balance of the light sources working and everything,” Goelz explained.
And all of it was volunteered, Oz noted. “What’s cool is all of these people also helped us for free,” Oz marveled. “They just wanted to be part of it. Dave had such a great idea. And then he talked to Pete, and Pete suggested Michael, who suggested Peter Sohn, and Dave had his friend (Wolley). And that all of this came about like it did is wonderful.”
“I got this friend of mine who is a medical illustrator (Cindy Woolley)…medical illustrators illustrate medical textbooks and publications. They might look at a cadaver and draw what’s going on. They might look at a skeleton and do a graphic version of how a joint replacement works, that kind of thing. So she’s really good at drawing people. She’s really good at figuring out how to save a bad photoshop job. So she took the photoshop and just took a whole weekend figuring out how to work it, to get the colors to work. I think when Peter was working on it I switched a couple of arms so they’d be talking to each other. And between Peter Sohn and this lady, Cindy Woolley, they pulled it together. It took a lot of work.”
