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The Muppets Studio, LLC, formerly The Muppets Holding Company, LLC, is a wholly owned entertainment subsidiary of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media Labs, formed in 2004 through The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of The Muppets and ''Bear in the Big Blue House'' assets from The Jim Henson Company. ==Background== In the late-1980s, Jim Henson had been in talks with Disney CEO Michael Eisner to sell Jim Henson Productions to the Walt Disney Company. In August 1989, the two officially announced a deal for Disney to purchase Jim Henson Productions for $150 million. The deal fell through several months after Jim Henson's death in 1990. Despite the collapse of the merger deal, by 1992, Disney and Jim Henson Productions had already struck a number of deals: *Exclusive domestic rights to Henson theme park attractions in the western U.S. until May 1994 plus 2 year non-exclusively, including the design of two Muppet attractions at Walt Disney World *Buena Vista Home Video's worldwide distribution rights to Henson's 300 hours of programming and a financing deal for up to 3 home video projects *Certain cable television distribution rights for Disney Channel until 1997 *International distribution rights for existing TV programming in free broadcast, cable or pay-per-view markets *Theatrical distribution for ''The Muppet Christmas Carol'' and ''Muppet Treasure Island'' *''Dinosaurs'' co-production *In 1996, the Jim Henson Company produced ''Muppets Tonight'' for ABC, which had just been acquired by Disney. The Henson family subsequently sold the entirety of the Jim Henson Company to German conglomerate EM.TV in 2000. In 2003, the Henson family repurchased The Jim Henson Company from EM.TV. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Muppets Studio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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