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For Immediate Release
THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER
COMES TO DVD JULY 10, 2001 FROM COLUMBIA TRISTAR HOME
ENTERTAINMENT
Culver City, CA (4/30/01) - On July 10, 2001 Columbia
TriStar Home Entertainment will offer the THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER on DVD
for the first time:
* Featuring the Voices of Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog
and Frank Oz as Miss Piggy
* Directed by Jim Henson
* Also Stars Diana Rigg (The American), Charles Grodin (Midnight Run),
John Cleese (Upcoming Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) and Academy
Award-Winner Peter Ustinov (Topkapi)
* Nominated for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Original Song
DVD ADDED VALUE ELEMENTS
* Three Muppetisms
* Bonus Trailers
* Digitally Mastered Audio and Anamorphic Video
Synopsis
When famous fashion designer Lady Holiday (Rigg) reports
her priceless diamond necklace stolen, investigative reporters Kermit
and Fozzie are on the case! Starved for a story, the two new journalists
head for London, without the foggiest idea where to begin! The plot thickens
when the goods are found on one of Lady Holiday's models: Miss Piggy!
It's up to Kermit and his Muppet sleuths to catch the real robbers red-handed.
before Miss Piggy winds up in the pen!
* Rated G
* Closed-Captioned
* Color
* Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Surround
* Format: Full Screen and Widescreen
* Approximate Length: 98 Minutes
* Languages: English, French and Spanish
* Subtitles: English, French and Spanish
* Trailers: "Muppets from Space," "The Muppets Take Manhattan,"
"The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland" and "Buddy"
* SLP: $19.95
* DVD #05618
* UPC #0-43396-05618-3
TRADE INFORMATION
Order Date: June 12, 2001
The Jim Henson Company, an established leader in family
entertainment for more than 40 years, is a multimedia production company;
one of the top character licensors in the industry; a leading publisher
of children's books; and home to Jim Henson Television, Jim Henson Pictures,
Jim Henson Interactive and Jim Henson's Creature ShopT. The Company is
headquartered in Los Angeles with offices and production facilities in
New York and London. The Jim Henson Company is a wholly owned subsidiary
of EM.TV & Merchandising AG based in Munich, Germany. The Jim Henson
Company website is located at: www.henson.com.
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is a Sony Pictures Entertainment
company. Sony Pictures' global operations encompass motion picture production
and distribution, television programming and syndication, home video acquisition
and distribution, operation of studio facilities, development of new entertainment
technologies and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries
worldwide. Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide
Web at http://www.spe.sony.com
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