Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner insists that he doesn’t have ... including Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy -- from Jim Henson Co. Executives at both companies said the Muppet acquisition ...

Jim Henson was somebody that you always felt ... My dad had a great relationship with Michael Eisner. They had known each other for many years. NARRATOR: Jim, who likes to do business on a ...

Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner insists that he has no ... including Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, from the Jim Henson Co. Executives at both companies dismissed any notion that the ...

In 2003 they would sell the characters to the Walt Disney Company, something that CEO Michael Eisner had been trying to make happen since before Jim's tragic death in 1990. The Jim Henson Company ...

fulfilling a dream of then-CEO Michael Eisner that he had been harboring since before Jim Henson’s death in 1990. At the time that the family acquired the lot, Lisa Henson, CEO of the Jim Henson ...

“[Then-Disney boss Michael Eisner] was trying to get Sesame Street ... He also claimed there is “a demarcation line between the Jim Henson Muppets and the Disney Muppets”.

EXCLUSIVE: The Current War and The Giver scribe Michael Mitnick has been set to write Jim Henson biopic Muppet Man for Disney and The Jim Henson Company, we can reveal. Currently in development ...

September 24, 1936 saw the birth of Jim Henson, a man who’d grow up to shape ... Critically acclaimed upon publication, it went on to win three Eisner Awards at that year’s San Diego Comic ...