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There are only two more sleeps until Christmas and, if you're anything like us, you plan on spending at least one of those nights watching the best holiday film of all time: The Muppet Christmas Carol ...

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Brian Henson, the director of The Muppet Christmas Carol, has opened up about the making of the beloved Charles Dickens spoof. The film was warmly received upon its release, and is widely considered a ...

From the Broadway stage to the cheapest television network to some surprisingly decent adult productions (“Dickens” is right there), there's no shortage of A Christmas Carol adaptations, but The ...

The Muppet Christmas Carol is one of the most beloved festive films of all time, filling each new generation with joy as they watch Sir Michael Caine's Scrooge find the spirt of Christmas — so you ...

Miss Piggy isn’t the type to get stage fright, but she’d also never turn down a shower of compliments. In the teaser trailer for The Muppet Show, the iconic character gets a pep talk from Sabrina ...

We had a tiny tease last month of Kermit getting ready for The Muppet Show‘s grand, one-night-only return, but Disney is ringing in the new year with a fresh new look at the mayhem we can expect out ...

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge written in 1843, is one of the most familiar literary works in the English language. Though Eleanor Farjeon wrote in an ...

Jim Carrey puts his extraordinary physical chops to motion-capture use as a CGI Ebenezer Scrooge in Robert Zemeckis' adaptation. But he doesn’t stop at Scrooge; Carrey also plays all three ghosts — ...