‘Disney’s Muppets Most Wanted takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theatres in some of Europe’s most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid, Dublin and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine—the World’s Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit the Frog—and his dastardly sidekick Dominic, aka Number Two, portrayed by Ricky Gervais. The film stars Ty Burrell as Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon, and Tina Fey as Nadya, a feisty prison guard.‘
That is the boilerplate pitch for The Muppets Most Wanted. Verbatim. If you think that sounds like it’ll be fun to watch, can you imagine being on set for a day watching the film actually being made? Well imagine no more…
It was Monday 5th March 2013 and a significant portion of...
That is the boilerplate pitch for The Muppets Most Wanted. Verbatim. If you think that sounds like it’ll be fun to watch, can you imagine being on set for a day watching the film actually being made? Well imagine no more…
It was Monday 5th March 2013 and a significant portion of...
- 1/9/2014
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Frankfurt, Germany -- "Hotel Lux," a screwball comedy set in Nazi era Germany starring local boxoffice champ Michael "Bully" Herbig, has picked up €500,000 ($745,000) in funding from Bavaria film fund, the Fff.
Herbig plays a Berlin cabaret performer circa 1938 whose onstage Hilter parody gets him in trouble with the Nazi authorities. He flees to Russia and the legendary Hotel Lux, but the locals mistake him for Hitler's astrologist. Comedy veteran Leander Haussmann ("Berlin Blues") directs.
The Fff also put up €350,000 ($521,000) towards Mike Barker's TV two-parter "Moby Dick" starring William Hurt as Captain Ahab in a new hunt for the white whale. Herbert Kloiber's Tele Munchen Group is producing for Rtl in Germany and Austria's Orf.
Herbig plays a Berlin cabaret performer circa 1938 whose onstage Hilter parody gets him in trouble with the Nazi authorities. He flees to Russia and the legendary Hotel Lux, but the locals mistake him for Hitler's astrologist. Comedy veteran Leander Haussmann ("Berlin Blues") directs.
The Fff also put up €350,000 ($521,000) towards Mike Barker's TV two-parter "Moby Dick" starring William Hurt as Captain Ahab in a new hunt for the white whale. Herbert Kloiber's Tele Munchen Group is producing for Rtl in Germany and Austria's Orf.
- 10/16/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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