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Where The Wild Things Are | Review

15 October 2009 8:06 PM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »

Director: Spike Jonze Writer(s): Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers (screenplay) Maurice Sendak (book) Starring: Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker Our story follows Max (Max Records), an interesting and tender young boy full of imagination and wonderment. Max has become disconnected from his sister who has left childhood for the teenage years, and his mother (Catherine Keener) is dating someone that Max sees as competition for his time and attention. With the absence of Max's father due to divorce, we see him acting out emotionally the only way a young boy can - loudly and inappropriately. After putting on his wolf costume and displaying a "rebel yell" outburst in front of his mom and boyfriend Mark Ruffalo, Max's mom attempts to scold Max and send him to his room...but Max has other plans. He bolts from the house »

- Dave Campbell

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'Gremlins' Get Wet And Eat After Midnight Under The Care Of MTV's Gore Girls

15 October 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Welcome to Gore Girls! MTV contributor Terri Schwartz doesn't know crap about the horror genre, and she's volunteered to be our Movies Blog guinea pig. She has a good guide too. Fellow contributor Jenni Miller is a bonafide horror enthusiast, and she's willing to walk Terri through her formative experiences with blood, guts, monsters and maniacs. Together, this dynamic duo are horror's own odd couple, The Gore Girls!!! Good luck Terri... you're definitely going to need it.

This week, the Gore Girls decided to go easy on themselves. Wusses. "Gremlins," directed by Joe Dante, isn't strictly a horror movie. More of a comedy/horror. I'm sure a young child would be suitably terrified, and plenty of the right horror movie beats are hit, but this isn't a traditional scare flick. The story follows a young man who receives a furry little creature as a Christmas gift. The season's greetings fall »

- MTV Movies Team

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Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal Blu-ray Reviews

7 October 2009 9:02 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

For most people, just coming up with a cast of characters as wonderfully lovable as the Muppets - to say nothing of helping spearhead a pair of television classics as durable as The Muppet Show and Sesame Street - would be enough to justify an early and lucrative retirement. For Jim Henson, however, those feats only scratched the surface of his ambition, and by the early ’80s, the man who helped turn puppets from a sideshow trick into an art form was ready to try his hand at slightly more grown-up fare. The results were 1982’s The Dark Crystal and 1986’s Labyrinth, a pair of PG-rated fantasy films that connected the dots between The Muppet Movie and The Lord of the Rings. Neither film made much of an impression at the box office, but they’ve both acquired cult status over the years - and now they’ve both been »

- Jeff Giles

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[DVD Review] Labyrinth

7 October 2009 2:24 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Labyrinth may be the most heinous crime committed against the human mind at the hand of muppeteers. It’s not awful, it’s not even bad – it’s just a total mind screw from the first Bowie appearance on out. Who’s the movie really for? I still say it should be shown to children. The images in Labyrinth were and remain some of the most bizarre things a muppet has ever done. Bird-things dancing on their heads, a fox riding saddleback on a dog or a tunnel full of faces made out of hands – suspend your disbelief indefinitely, otherwise there’s no hope for you enjoying this one.

Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) wishes her parents would spend more time paying attention to her and not her infant brother Toby. Her fraternal resentment peaks when she’s left to babysit the runt as her parents go out for a night on »

- Lex Walker

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New On DVD This Week

29 September 2009 4:45 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.

Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows like The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Monsters vs. Aliens, The Guild Seasons 1 & 2, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and Life on Mars: The Complete Series. There’s also a new DVD box set that made us laugh out loud in its awesomeness: Cagney & Lacey: The Menopause Years. Yes, that’s real.

Check them out.

Movies

Away We Go ~ John Krasinski (DVD and Blu-ray)

The Dark Crystal ~ Jim Henson (Blu-ray)

The Girlfriend Experience ~ Sasha Grey (DVD and Blu-ray)

Labyrinth ~ David Bowie (Blu-ray)

The Lost and Found Family ~ Lucas Till, »

- Joe Gillis

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There's No Place Like Blu-Ray For 'Wizard Of Oz,' In The DVD Report For Tuesday, September 29

29 September 2009 3:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Rare is the occasion where the week biggest release isn't a new blockbuster but rather a septuagenarian, but that's the case this time as a young girl from Kanas eclipses anything New Hollywood has to throw at us. This is your DVD Report for Tuesday, September 29, 2009.

Since the advent of Blu-ray, studios have casually mined their catalogues for suitable re-releases, and while the results have often been notable, they're usually nothing to stop the presses over. But every once in a while, that little extra effort is made that blows something out of the water and we get something like MGM's timeless "The Wizard of Oz," which breezes into its 70th birthday with one of the best Blu-ray collections of all time.

Presented in a large hardbound rectangular case, the 70th Anniversary Edition of "Oz" comes as a three-disc Blu-ray set featuring a whopping 20+ hours of bonus content, and is »

- Brian Jacks

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This Week on DVD: Monsters vs Aliens, Away We Go, The Wizard of Oz

29 September 2009 9:27 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Happy DVD release day, people. Hitting stores this week is one of the year's biggest films, the animated film Monsters vs Aliens, plus a number of indie flicks you might have missed including Sam Mendes' Away We Go, Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience starring Sasha Grey, and Shrink starring Kevin Spacey. Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom is also available for rental exclusively at Blockbuster today, but in a strange deal, it will not be available to buy in the U.S. until January (it will be available in Canada next week, however). In terms of TV releases, there are a ton of Fan Favorites collections for classic shows, plus season 4 of How I Met Your Mother, and then there's the massive 70th Anniversary Edition of The Wizard of Oz plus Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal on Blu-ray. Do you plan on picking anything up this week? Monsters vs Aliens [1] (DVD, »

- Sean

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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: September 29, 2009

28 September 2009 11:43 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Edition) Warner Home Video's remastering of the 70-year-old classic The Wizard of Oz is certainly this week's big release, but how many of you are going to be willing to shell out the dollars for the Blu-ray collector's set or perhaps double-dip on a DVD edition considering it was only four years ago when they released a three-disc collector's edition. Warner sent me the two-disc DVD edition for review, but what sense does it make for me to review the DVD edition when the Blu-ray version is the obvious highlight here? Especially considering I already reviewed the 3-disc version? I will say this, and Blu-ray buyers should be paying attention, Blu-ray.com is reporting Target stores will have a cheaper version of the Blu-ray available without all the bells and whistles you »

- Brad Brevet

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Rt on DVD: Monsters vs. Aliens, a Wizard, and Ghostbusters

28 September 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | Rotten Tomatoes | See recent Rotten Tomatoes news »

This week on home video, we've got a bunch of '09 films hitting DVD shelves (Monsters vs. Aliens, Away We Go, The Brothers Bloom, and more), as well as a couple of fantasy classics for those who grew up in the 80s (Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal) that are getting the high definition treatment for the first time. Then we've got one iconic film receiving a brand new anniversary edition (The Wizard of Oz) and a first-time complete collection of a movie-based cartoon series (The Real Ghostbusters). As usual, we've tried to bring a good variety to the list while still... »

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Monster Times - Family Frights on DVD 9.29.09

26 September 2009 11:02 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

In the spirit of bringing you the latest in home horror entertainment through the Fangoria Chopping list, we're now bringing you the news on the best in Family-Friendly Frights!

The Monster Times Family Fright list presents all the monster goodness to share with your own demon spawn!

Here's what's hitting retail on September 29!

The Dark Crystal - Sony

Msrp: $27.99 - Amazon.com Pre-order (Click here), $19.99 as of this writing.

The Dark Crystal is a masterful live-action fantasy starring some of Jim Henson's most imaginative creatures ever! Directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz and produced by Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back), The Dark Crystal brilliantly weaves a timeless myth of Good and Evil! In another time, The Dark Crystal- a source of Balance and Truth in the Universe- was shattered, dividing the world into two factions: the wicked Skeksis and the peaceful Mystics. Now, as »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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'Labyrinth' Blu-ray Set for September 29th Release

15 August 2009 3:34 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

DVD Active is a great resource for not just what's coming out when but also the art and DVD/Blu-ray covers for just about everything you might be interested in. We have shamelessly used their stuff for a while now.

That brings us to Labyrinth, the Jim Henson film starring David Bowie and a young Jennifer Connelly. I almost hate to say it, but this kind of thing would be done with CGI now, and when you look at how big the cast of puppeteers was for Labyrinth, you can understand why. I don't want to give anyone an idea for a remake, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me.

There are new commentaries included on the Blu-ray, which will be released on September 29th on its own, and then at a point in the future as part of a three-pack of Henson fantasy films that also includes The Dark Crystal and MirrorMask. »

- Colin Boyd

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Henson talks up The Dark Crystal 2 and the Fraggle Rock movie

6 August 2009 3:10 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

Jim Henson's son Brian has been talking to MTV about two pretty exciting upcoming projects, which are both very very close to entering pre-production. The films are a big-screen version of the 1980's TV show Fraggle Rock and a sequel to The Dark Crystal. Henson had this to say about Fraggle Rock:

"It'll have a strong musical component. It'll be expanded to an older audience. 'Fraggle Rock' [the TV show] was presented... for a pretty exclusively children's audience. The feature film does expand it to be more accessible to a wider audience."

As for The Dark Crystal sequel?

"We have a 'Dark Crystal' sequel, called 'The Power of the Dark Crystal.' It has a very strong script. Both of those projects... are very close to going into pre-production," Henson said. "They're both really ready to go. [The studio is] just [in the process of] putting together the final finance pieces and the final distribution pieces. »

- Paul

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Henson talks ‘Fraggle’ movie and ‘Dark Crystal’ sequel

6 August 2009 11:13 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Rockin' out

Brian Henson, son of the late Jim Henson, told MTV that the Jim Henson Company is currently working on a follow-up to the 1982 favorite The Dark Crystal.

“We have a Dark Crystal sequel, called The Power of the Dark Crystal. It has a very strong script.”

You’re right, that’s not much. However, if you live in a world where all you live for is muppet news, this nugget is a bombshell. Henson went on to say The Power of the Dark Crystal, along with his other project, a little thing called Fraggle Rock, are in “very active development.” Henson also told MTV that the script for Fraggle also has a “very strong script.”

That’s two, count ‘em, two strong scripts.

“Both of those projects… are very close to going into pre-production,” Henson said. “They’re both really ready to go. [The studio is] just [in the process of] putting together the final »

- Erik Buckman

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'Fraggle Rock' And 'Dark Crystal' Sequel Updates From Brian Henson

5 August 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

As a child of the '80s, I love myself some Muppets and Muppet-like puppets. "Sesame Street," "Fraggle Rock," "The Dark Crystal," "Labyrinth," "The Muppet Show"... these are the things my television raised me on. And so I'm insanely jealous that MTV's Brian Jacks got to sit down and chat with Brian Henson, son of "The Muppets" creator Jim Henson and co-ceo (with his sister Lisa) of the still-thriving Jim Henson Company.

Jacks didn't get to just talk with Henson. He got to pick his brain, to mine him for information. And wouldn't you know it, Henson was all too happy to share. He even volunteered some stuff. What do I mean, you ask? Jacks asked about the "Fraggle Rock" movie, Henson replied with comments about that And the "Dark Crystal" sequel. Whoa. Hit the jump for the deets.

Henson told us that "Fraggle Rock" is "still in very active development. »

- Adam Rosenberg

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Sony Details Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal on Blu-ray

21 July 2009 12:08 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released the complete details for a pair of upcoming fantasy classics Jim Henson worked on set to debut on Blu-ray Disc September 29. Labyrinth with David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly, and The Dark Crystal starring Henson's cute and diabolical puppets will be presented in their original 2.35:1 aspect ratio with 1080p resolution video and 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio. The press release is not entirely clear in relaying which bonus features are new and exclusive to Blu-ray but I think I got them close if not correct below. The Dark Crystal definitely received preferential treatment when it came to supplements. Labyrinth

The Storytellers: Picture-in-Picture (Bd exclusive) Making of Documentary: Inside The Labyrinth Commentary with Brian Froud Journey through the Labyrinth: Kingdom of Characters Journey through the Labyrinth: The Quest for Goblin City The Dark Crystal

Commentary with Brian Froud (Bd exclusive) Picture-in-Picture Storyboard Track (Bd exclusive »

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The Dark Crystal & Labyrinth go Blu-Ray

20 July 2009 11:53 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will bring a pair of fantasy favorites from the Jim Henson Company to Blu-Ray on September 29th.

The Master of Muppets' 1982 feature The Dark Crystal, which he co-directed with Frank Oz (Yoda!) and an uncredited Gary Kurtz (Empire Strikes Back) will hit the hi-def market, along with the 1986 David Bowie-starrer Labyrinth.

Full specs below the jump!

The Dark Crystal

Msrp: $27.99 - Amazon.com Pre-order (Click here), $19.99 as of this writing.

The Dark Crystal is a masterful live-action fantasy starring some of Jim Henson's most imaginative creatures ever! Directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz and produced by Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back), The Dark Crystal brilliantly weaves a timeless myth of Good and Evil! In another time, The Dark Crystal- a source of Balance and Truth in the Universe- was shattered, dividing the world into two factions: the wicked Skeksis and the peaceful Mystics. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Exclusive: ‘Fraggle Rock’ Kicks Off Jim Henson Company Comics

24 June 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Editor’s note: This is far, far outside of Movies Blog’s coverage zone, I know. But “Fraggle Rock” is the greatest and this news is hella cool. So enjoy.

From Splash Page: This week, Archaia Comics and the Jim Henson Company confirmed rumors of a potential partnership between the two creative companies, and offered official word that the pair would be publishing new comic book series and graphic novels based on popular properties like “The Dark Crystal,” “Labyrinth” and “Mirrormask.” And while this news on its own should be enough to excite fans of Henson’s varied and much beloved library, the pair also offered Splash Page readers the exclusive announcement regarding which property will be the first to hit shelves.

“‘Fraggle Rock’ is going to be the first book that we launch,” Archaia’s Director of Development, Stephen Christy, told MTV News. “We’re launching with ‘Fraggle Rock »

- Rick Marshall

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Archaia Comics enters Jim Henson deal

23 June 2009 12:44 PM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Archaia Comics and The Jim Henson Company have entered a deal to publish graphic novels based on the late puppeteer's creations. The Henson estate, now run by his children, has granted the publisher the rights to release new material based on The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mirrormask, The Storyteller and Fraggle Rock. "For us, it takes away a lot of restrictions both creative and budgetary on storytelling and allows us to tell these stories right," said Joe LeFavi, director of publishing and development at The Jim Henson Company. "In features and (more) »

- By Mark Langshaw

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Exclusive: ‘Fraggle Rock’ To Be First (Of Many) Jim Henson Company Comics With Archaia Press

23 June 2009 8:58 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

This week, Archaia Comics and the Jim Henson Company confirmed rumors of a potential partnership between the two creative companies, and offered official word that the pair would be publishing new comic book series and graphic novels based on popular properties like “The Dark Crystal,” “Labyrinth” and “Mirrormask.” And while this news on its own should be enough to excite fans of Henson’s varied and much beloved library, the pair also offered Splash Page readers the exclusive announcement regarding which property will be the first to hit shelves.

“‘Fraggle Rock’ is going to be the first book that we launch,” Archaia’s Director of Development, Stephen Christy, told MTV News. “We’re launching with ‘Fraggle Rock’ and other titles will be forthcoming.”

The “Fraggle Rock” news has been the stuff of rumors since Christy posted a cropped image on Twitter last month and hinted that the quickly identified image »

- Rick Marshall

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Ask the Oracle! (Fantasy Questions Answered)

5 May 2009 7:56 PM, PDT | thetorchonline | See recent thetorchonline news »

Have a question about something fantasy-related? Ask the Oracle! (Be sure to include your first name and the city, state, and/or country you are writing from.) Q: Is it true there's a sequel in the works to The Dark Crystal? -- Wade, Portland Or A: The Oracle can reveal that yes, there is such a movie in the works, but it's still early in the process. Called The Power of the Dark Crystal, the project is based on the notes of the creators of the original 1982 film, including Jim Henson, who had wanted to do a sequel at the time, but found that the modest success of the first movie didn't allow it. »

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