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The Jim Henson Company (also known at various times as Muppets, Inc., Henson Associates, Inc., Henson International Television, Kermit Puppetry Imagineering & Entertainment LLC and Jim Henson Productions, Inc.) is an American entertainment company, a leading producer of children's and family entertainment, and best known as the creators of the renowned Muppets characters. Founded in 1958 by puppeteer Jim Henson and performing partner and wife Jane Henson, the company is independently owned and operated by the children of its founders.
Henson has produced many successful television series, including The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, Dinosaurs, Bear in the Big Blue House, and Farscape, and creates the Muppet characters for the long-running PBS television series, Sesame Street, produced by Sesame Workshop. The company has also produced many films, including The Muppet Movie, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. Henson also operates Jim Henson's Creature Shop, a puppet, animatronics, and visual effects workshop, which has created characters and effects for Henson productions, as well as outside producers.
In 1989, the company entered merger negotiations with The Walt Disney Company, but the deal fell through following Jim Henson's unexpected death in 1990. Following Henson's death and the end of the Disney merger, the company was taken over by Henson's children, Brian, Lisa, Cheryl, John and Heather, with Brian at the helm. In 2000, Henson was sold to EM.TV & Merchandising AG, a German media company, but by the end of that year, EM.TV's stock collapsed, and the company was sold back to the Henson family in 2003. (EM.TV had previously sold the rights to the Sesame Street Muppets to Sesame Workshop in 2001.)
In 2004, Henson sold the rights to the Muppets and Bear in the Big Blue House to The Walt Disney Company, but retains the rights to the rest of its characters, program library, and assets. As of 2014, Brian, Lisa, Cheryl, and Heather Henson run the company (sibling and fellow co-owner John Henson died in February 2014). Brian Henson serves as chairman, while Lisa Henson serves as CEO.
Since 2000, The Jim Henson Company has been headquartered at the historic Charlie Chaplin Studios in Hollywood, California.
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(1982)Filmographie de The Jim Henson Company (25 films)
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, 1h29Réalisé par Ken Kwapis
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Aventure, Musical, Animation
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Transport, Mise en scène d'un oiseau, Musique, Road movie, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Sandra Bernhard, Alyson Court, John Candy
The members of the Feathered Friends' Board of Birds (consisting of the Madame Chairbird, a sparrow, a turkey, a puffin, a robin, and an owl) discuss their situation about Big Bird and hope that they can find a bird family to put him with. The group's social worker Miss Finch (performed by Cheryl Wagner and voiced by Sally Kellerman) is sent to Sesame Street to find Big Bird a worthy bird family and bring him to the selected family. After leaving Sesame Street, New York City, New York, Miss Finch brings Big Bird to the fictional town of Oceanview, Illinois to live with a family of dodos. The dodos think exactly the same, even saying he should have a bird as a best friend instead of Mr. Snuffleupagus (who is currently watching over Big Bird's nest). This causes him much distress.
Les Muppets à Manhattan (1984)
, 1h34Réalisé par Frank Oz
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Comédie musicale, Musical, Romance
Thèmes Maladie, La musique, Musique, Folie, Le handicap, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Jim Henson, Art Carney, Frank Oz, Louis Zorich, Julianna Donald, Linda Lavin
Les Muppets viennent d'obtenir leur diplôme à l'université et veulent aller fêter cela à Manhattan où ils espèrent aussi pouvoir monter leur nouveau spectacle musical. Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu : personne ne veut les produire, et ils se retrouvent séparés sur des chemins différents, jusqu'au jour où Kermit, renversé par une voiture, devient amnésique…
Dark Crystal (1982)
, 1h28Réalisé par Frank Oz, Jim Henson
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Science-fiction, Fantasy, Aventure, Animation
Thèmes Magie, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Lisa Maxwell, Barry Dennen, Frank Oz, Jim Henson, Billie Whitelaw, Dave Goelz
Dans un monde appelé Thra, un gigantesque cristal, sorte de talisman gardé dans les profondeurs d'un château, accumule la lumière des trois soleils qui éclairent la planète pour la restituer sous forme d'énergie vitale aux êtres qui y vivent. Le cristal s'est assombri depuis mille ans. Thra vivait en parfaite harmonie, jusqu’au jour où le Crystal se brisa. Les UrSkeks, êtres semi-divins qui avaient élu domicile sur Thra, se scindent alors lors de la précédente grande conjonction — l'alignement cyclique des trois soleils — ils se divisent en deux races distinctes : celle des Mystiques (UrRus en version originale), êtres chevelus bons et paisibles au museau allongé, et celle des Skeksès (Skeksis en anglais), sortes de rapaces reptiliens hargneux et cruels.
, 1h30Réalisé par Jim Henson
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Musical, Policier, Romance
Thèmes Film traitant du cinéma, Musique, Hold up, Films pour enfants, Gangsters, Escroquerie
Acteurs Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Jack Warden, Joan Sanderson
Les diamants de Lady Holiday, créatrice de mode, ont été dérobés. Les reporters Kermit, Gonzo et Fozzie ont complètement raté l'information et leur patron les menace de les virer. Pour sauver leur place, ils décident de mener l'enquête et partent pour Londres. Un peu perdus, ils atterrissent à l'hôtel du bonheur...un hôtel miteux mais à l'accueil chaleureux !
, 1h35Réalisé par James Frawley
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Comédie musicale, Aventure, Musical
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Film traitant du cinéma, La musique, Transport, Automobile, Mise en scène d'un chien, Mise en scène d'un cochon, Mise en scène d'un ours, Musique, Road movie, Films pour enfants, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Acteurs Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Milton Berle, Richard Hunt, Mel Brooks
Kermit la grenouille vit paisiblement dans son petit marais. Lorsqu'il entend parler d'une grande audition à Hollywood, il se laisse tenter par le voyage et part à bicyclette avec le doux espoir de réaliser ses rêves de star. En chemin, il rencontre une belle actrice, Miss Piggy, un comédien raté, Fozzie l'ours, et toute une série d'individus aussi particuliers que talentueux.
Time Piece (1965)
, 9minutesRéalisé par Jim Henson
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Fantasy, Musical
Acteurs Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Juhl, April March, David Bailey
The fast-paced scenes in Time Piece are edited together in a rhythmic pentameter, with an underlying use of sounds and repetitive beats. The film begins with a young man (who provides only four brief words of dialogue who just quotes "help") sitting patiently in a hospital bed. An unidentified doctor enters the room and checks the man's heart rate, which begins to pulse rhythmically.
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Muppet Classic Theater (1994)
Réalisé par David Grossman
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Comédie musicale, Musical
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, La musique, Mise en scène d'un chien, Mise en scène d'un cochon, Mise en scène d'un ours, Musique, Films pour enfants, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Acteurs Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Julianne Buescher, Bill Barretta, Brian Henson, Jerry Nelson
Les Muppets nous présente six pièces de théâtre, tiré de conte de fées, jouées par toute la troupe des Muppets.
Origine Etats-Unis
Thèmes Musique, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Kevin Clash, Fran Brill, Richard Hunt, Rick Lyon, Joey Mazzarino, Jerry Nelson
Billy Bunny sings his way across the forest where he runs across a swamp full of frogs, a cave filled with rapping bears (which were recycled from the generic bears from The Muppets Take Manhattan), and a singing porcupine.
The Christmas Toy (1986)
, 50minutesRéalisé par Eric Till
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Thèmes Noël
Acteurs Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Brian Henson, Zachary Bennett
When no people are around, the toys still play in the playroom. But since a toy will be frozen forever if a person catches it out of position, they have to be very careful. It's Christmas Eve, and Rugby the Tiger remembers how he was the favorite Christmas toy last year and wants to be the favorite again this year, as not to be replaced by another toy. However, he doesn't stop to think that if Jamie unwrapped him again this year, she'd see him out of his normal place that she usually puts him and he'd be frozen forever. It's up to Apple the Doll, whom Rugby supplanted as favorite toy, to tell him what's in store. But Rugby won't believe her, and tries to get into the Christmas package and lets Meteora, Queen of the Asteroids loose. Unfortunately, she doesn't know she's a toy, and thinks she's landed among aliens. And it's up to Apple, Mew (the Cat's toy mouse), and the other toys to get Rugby out of the box and Meteora back in it before they're found and frozen forever.
The Tale of the Bunny Picnic (1986)
Réalisé par Jim Henson
Genres Comédie, Musical
Thèmes Musique
Acteurs Richard Hunt, Jim Henson, Steve Whitmire, Kevin Clash, Karen Prell, Mike Quinn
Bean Bunny (Steve Whitmire) wishes he could help with the preparations for the Bunny Picnic, but he is told by his older brother Lugsy (Richard Hunt) that he is too small and will only get in the way. Feeling very disappointed, Bean wanders off alone into the lettuce patch, where he imagines himself as the king of the bunny picnic and community and then encounters a farmer's dog (Jim Henson), who chases him around the patch. Bean runs away and escapes the dog and warns the village, but none of the other bunnies believe him. They conclude that there is no dog and that Bean is simply making up the story for attention. At first, it seems that the farmer's dog is the story antagonist, but it is revealed that it is his master the farmer (Martin P. Robinson) that wants him to get the bunnies for his stew. The dog is only trying to protect himself from the wrath of the farmer by hunting the bunnies.