The Jim Henson Company has been tinkering behind the scenes with a "Fraggle Rock" movie since at least 2006, and as anyone who watched the 1980s TV series knows, music was a huge part of the Fraggles' underground world. What you may not know, however, is that director Cory Edwards and his associates have been working to integrate big-name musical acts into their feature film. Edwards blogged about such meetings a year ago, and the plan remains on track.

"The idea of integrating popular musical acts into the movie is something that everyone’s excited about," Melissa Segal, senior vice president of global consumer products at Jim Henson Company, told MTV News. And music will be front and center in the production. "It’s a big part of the movie," she said. Read More...

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'The Dark Crystal'I think we can all thank Jason Segel and his Dracula puppet musical for this startling and exciting turn of events from The Jim Henson Co. According to The Hollywood Reporter, they've picked up a spec script that will bring puppets into the mature world of film noir in "The Happytime Murders."

Yes, you read that right. Jim Henson Co. puppets are going noir, and I for one couldn't be happier.

Written by Todd Berger and Dee Austin Robertson, "Happytime" takes place in a world where humans and puppets co-exist. But in this world, being made of felt and possessing a set of googly-eyes makes you a second-class citizen. Things turn ugly when, one by one, the puppet cast of television's "The Happytime Gang" begin turning up dead. It falls to a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private-eye puppet to take on the case -- and yes, in noir fashion, he has personal demons and a drinking problem to overcome. Read More...

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