New Muppet movie in development for potential 2013 release

They have a major movie coming out every month. It would be theatrical suicide to release more than one movie a month. Unless the only Disney movie released in May is an action film, and they want something more kid friendly. But the reason they usually put Pixar films in June is to get theirs in after Dreamworks' film is out a while. Unless they managed to give this a key early May slot before then... otherwise, there's no logical place to put the film in summer where it'll do the best it can do. Late July is as good as anytime to release it, but Phineas and Ferb's got that slot. It's not merely speculating, it's rationalization to think it would get the last month of the season. No way would they want the film to go directly head to head with the May Marvel, June Pixar, and July Phineas and Ferb slots. That's just common business sense.

Above all, there is nothing wrong with waiting a year to get a proper, more thought out release date. Heck... didn't they project the last film to come out some time in 2010, but they were working on the script longer than they thought they would? 2013 is a shooting goal, but things can and might change.

I'm telling you if I know Disney they're gonna want this movie out by the end of June first part of July. AGAIN reason being they want to capitalize on holiday DVD sales. I was personally all for a 2014 release but I changed my mind I'm all for a 2013 release. It's obvious Disney wants this movie ASAP. I highly doubt their gonna want a 2014 release now. And it is speculation because unless we've all heard from Disney themselves of a release date then it's your guess is as good as mine. Agree to disagree on this.

for the record, i don't think August is necessarily a bad month to release it. you can get a hit at any time of the year, really. last year The Help came out in august and it was this huge surprise hit, partly because there was nothing else out. if anything, it might help it because of lack of competition

Yeah and that was also before they knew how much money it was gonna bring in. Had they known this movie was gonna bring in as much money as it did we prob would've seen the previous film released sooner.

Keep in mind there are both Wednesday and Friday slots for films and we know that no dates are final by the way "The Muppets" was bumped-up the schedule from Christmas to Thanksgiving. They'll figure it out.

Yeah but if it comes out in August it wouldn't be out on DVD till prob Jan. If its released on June-July then it would be out in Nov-Dec and I know their gonna wanna have it out by Christmas.

I say instead of debating when it's gonna be released and saying what months are good and bad we just get excited and be grateful it's moving forward. We're getting a new muppet movie. That's good enough for me!

Yes! I, personally, am very excited!

Here is some pictures from yesterdays CinemaCon.




Apparently Kermit was in a Zorro mood. LOL!

I agree with the people who are concerned about what could happen with a summer release. Disney killed the Narnia movies by moving Prince Caspian into the summer where it got overshadowed. I don't want to see the same thing happen to The Muppets.

And then we'd all be sad if they weren't gonna make another one. I say let's just be thankful.

Well, folks, here a poster for what's in mind for the next Muppet Movie:
http://mofrackle.deviantart.com/art/The-Muppets-Sequel-298433022





Poorly PhotoShopped by yours truly. Happy delayed (very delayed) April Fools Day!

Lol! Yeah I'm sure that's what they have in mind.

I was going to say that I see the horse. But didn't notice he had a Zorro mask. Or is that the Lone Ranger? Didn't the Lone Ranger have an mask and cowboy hat?

I hope that they don't seriously think diva with magical powers.

Zorro, Lone Ranger whatever your preference he was in a cowboy mood. LOL! Maybe he was having a nostolgic moment from the first movie. XD

Does it have to be called The Muppets 2?

Yeah it's more the Lone Ranger.

Thank you.

And it's a GOOD thing it was. While there was that unfortunate 2 week lull in movie ticket sales, Christmas would have killed them. In 2 weeks, more blockbusters came out than in an entire summer. Muppets was lucky the competition was just 2 CGI movies, some dumb vampire flick that wasn't for the Muppets Target Demo anyway, and a very artistic film that just didn't catch on. They picked the perfect time for that movie to be released.

I'm not saying Summer is such a bad time, but if Disney has 3 other blockbusters planned it just wouldn't make sense for them to run into each other. I kinda think Pooh got shafted by the release date, but I also think it was just destined to be a DVD hit because of the paradigm of Pooh being a baby product. And it's their OWN fault, the way they've been marketing the bear for years. But that's another tant for another time.

The first Narnia was a hit because it came out at the right time. That film was released (if I can remember correctly) in between 2 big films (Speed Racer was released around the same time too, and that was one of the factors that hurt that one, other than the terrible word of mouth)... I think they released one more with another company, put it at another terrible time of the year and then that was the end of that franchise.

Now, don't get me wrong... I'm glad to see another Muppet movie... I want to see another Muppet movie... I'd fund one myself if I had the money. But above all, we want to see this movie get a fair shake at the box office. A strategic release date can make all the difference. Like I said, if Disney has a big movie planned every month from May-July, it wouldn't make sense to put 2 movies in a month, as it would be in direct competition with itself. May's the Marvel month, June's always Pixar. July would be great, but they have a movie in July already.

Yes, we're getting another movie... but we want this one to do well as well... that leads to a third movie after all.

i think it will do well, because the movie has already done extremely well on dvd/blu-ray. that insures that people who really loved it will show it to others who didn't see it and feed it to the kids, which is the demo that we REALLY need. i still think the muppets have passionate fans, but too many of them are in their twenties and thirties. for family movies to do well, the kids really need to love it too

i think the next one will probably be much lighter on the nostalgia and wackier with the comedy, so that should take care of that problem. i betcha anything the next one hits 100 million