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Dance Your Hopes Away: Fraggle Rock Movie Not Happening Anytime Soon

The beloved muppet characters of Jim Henson’s 1980s series Fraggle Rock entertained a generation of kids with their emphasis on friendship, their penchant for cooperation, and the subtle socialist messaging that made being part of the Fraggle Rock fandom so darn infectious… and strangely compulsive. And if those blue Commie Smurfs are getting their own big screen update, why not Red, Gobo, Boober and the gang?

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Dance Your Hopes Away: Fraggle Rock Movie Not Happening Anytime Soon

Monsters, Inc. Duo Heading Back to College for Pixar Prequel Monsters University

In a presentation Tuesday at CinemaCon, Disney/Pixar announced that their forthcoming 2012 sequel to the Oscar-winning Monsters, Inc. will be called Monsters University , and is actually a pre quel to the original exploring the origins of the friendship between Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman). Stars Crystal and Goodman are expected to return along with Steve Buscemi as rival scream-collector Randall Boggs, while a writer and director have yet to be named. Cue the college movie cliché conjecture! What familiar campus experiences might our heroes face — and what do monsters hang on doorknobs if they don’t wear socks? [ THR , First Showing ]

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