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The Muppets (film)

The Muppets
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by James Bobin
Produced by David Hoberman
Todd Lieberman
Written by Jason Segel
Nicholas Stoller
Starring Jason Segel
Amy Adams
Chris Cooper
Rashida Jones
Music by Christophe Beck
Cinematography Don Burgess
Edited by James Thomas
Alan Baumgarten
Production
company
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release date
  • November 4, 2011 (2011-11-04) (Savannah Film Festival)
  • November 23, 2011 (2011-11-23) (United States)
Running time
103 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $45 million
Box office $165.2 million

The Muppets is a 2011 American musical comedy film and the seventh theatrical film featuring the Muppets. The film is directed by James Bobin, written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, and stars Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper and Rashida Jones, as well as Muppet performers Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta, David Rudman, Matt Vogel, and Peter Linz. Bret McKenzie of comedy band Flight of the Conchords served as music supervisor, writing four of the film's five original songs, and Christophe Beck composed the film's score. In The Muppets, devoted fan Walter, his brother Gary, and Gary's girlfriend Mary help Kermit the Frog reunite the Muppets, as they must raise $10 million to save the Muppet Theater from Tex Richman, a businessman who plans to demolish the studio to drill for oil.

Walt Disney Pictures announced the film's development in March 2008, with Segel and Stoller writing the screenplay, and Mandeville Films co-producing the film. Bobin was hired to direct in January 2010, and the film's supporting cast was filled out in October of the same year, with the casting of Adams, Cooper, and Jones. Filming began in September 2010 and was completed entirely in Los Angeles. The film was the first theatrical Muppet production without the involvement of veteran Muppet performers Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson, although Nelson provides an uncredited vocal cameo. Instead, their characters are performed by Jacobson and Vogel, respectively, marking their theatrical feature film debut as those characters.


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