puppets
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Christopher Robin’s Pooh & Friends Looked So Real Because Puppeteers Played With Real Stuffed Animals On Set
When you’re bringing an imaginary creature to life through CG, you can make it move however you want. But when you’re bringing a toy millions of kids spent their childhoods with to the big screen, you need to use every trick to make them move as believably as possible — including something as simple as…
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R-Rated Puppet Comedy The Happytime Murders Is A Massive Disappointment
The Happytime Murders is a poorly paced, visually bland R-rated comedy that has a lot of ideas, none of which ever come together. It’s built around a great idea—a dirty detective comedy for adults starring both puppets and humans—but outside of a few big laughs, it disappoints on almost every level.
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Sesame Street Has Already Lost Its Lawsuit Against The Happytime Murders
A still from The Happytime Murders.Photo: STX Late last week, the company behind Sesame Street filed a lawsuit against the company behind The Happytime Murders to stop the movie from using the tag line “No sesame, all street.” The fear was it could damage the Sesame Street brand by connecting it to the hard R-rated…
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Anyone Have $10 Million I Can Borrow To Buy These Rankin/Bass Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Puppets?
It’s a yearly tradition, at least in my household, to take in the classic Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special from 1964. Surprisingly, some of the old stop-motion puppet figures haven’t crumbled to dust yet! And you can buy them! If you’re Elon Musk, anyway.