It’s a bit on the small side but we now have the first official still of Amy from The Muppets in our gallery. I’m sure more (and hopefully better quality) will be released soon so keep checking back!

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Amy fans are lucky today! Collider posted an audio interview they did with Amy while she was filming The Muppets. A links to the audio file can be found at the source or you can read the interview below.

I watched The Muppet Movie obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.

Did you enjoy sitting in that car for multiple takes?

Amy Adams: There have been more comfortable situations, but everybody is really nice. So that is good.

What can tell you us about your character? We know about Jason Segel and Walter’s connection. How do you fit into that story?

Adams: I am Mary, who is Gary’s somewhat neglected girlfriend due to his close relationship with Walter. So I am kind of along for the ride desperately trying to get him to be more romantic. Well, in a Disney way. You know?[laughs]

What does it mean for you to be a part of something that has this much linage?

Adams: It is awesome. I have been lucky to be a part of a lot of family films that have a great linage with Enchanted, Night at the Museum, and now to be a part of this. This is something I grew up with and was in love with. When I heard they were doing a new one I was really excited. Jason sent me a DVD where he and Kermit were inviting me to be part of The Muppets. It was really cool. Once Kermit asks you to do something it is really hard to look at him and say, “No.” So I was hooked.

Has it been an adjustment for you as an actor working with The Muppets? Do act with them as Muppets or with the puppeteers? How does that all work?

Adams: You know, it wasn’t. It’s amazing when you are doing a scene and you just so accept them as the other actor. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up with The Muppets. I don’t know. It’s actually great because a lot of the times when you are doing films that involve special effects you are acting with nothing. So in reality they are actually very giving scene partners for being inanimate objects.

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Movieweb just posted an amazing article about the day they got to visit the set of The Muppets. Sadly, no photos of Amy were featured but there is a section where they talk to Amy. I’ve posted the first half of the article (the part which has the interview with Amy). The rest can be found at the source.

“I have to say that I can’t win in that answer because I am working with Miss Piggy. So if I say, Meryl Streep…I have to see Miss Piggy tomorrow and it will be like, so I heard…so I’m just going to plead the fifth. I know Meryl Streep will be ok, but I don’t want to cross Miss Piggy.”

Scheduled for release on November 23rd is The Muppets, a brand new movie featuring these classic characters, written by Jason Segel and Nick Stoller, the writer and director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, respectively. The music for the movie was written by Flight of the Conchords star Bret McKenzie. And James Bobin, who co-created that popular HBO series, also directs the film.

The movie stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones, and of course … Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Scooter, Rowlf, Swedish Chief, Beaker, Crazy Harry, Sam the Eagle, Animal, and Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem. The Muppets, which is the beloved characters first theatrical release since ’1999s , promises to return Kermit the Frog and the entire gang to the forefront of popular culture once again … exactly where they belong.

Earlier this year we had the rare opportunity to be invited to the Los Angeles set of The Muppets to speak to the cast and crew about the new film. While on set, we had a chance to talk with Academy Award nominated actress Amy Adams, actor/writer Jason Segel, co-writer Nick Stoller, and director James Bobin. Unfortunately, we did not have a chance to interview any of the actual Muppets, but we did get to see them shooting a scene for the movie.

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No more teasers. No more parodies. We have the first full official trailer for The Muppets! You can view the trailer after the cut or visit the gallery to see 60+ screencaptures.

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Another teaser has been released for Amy’s upcoming movie The Muppets. This one features very little footage of Amy but I did manage to get 10+ screencaptures from it and they’ve been added to the gallery.

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Time posted a fantastic article about Amy’s upcoming movie The Muppets. The primary focus of the article is on Jason Segel and the Muppets themselves but I thought it was an excellent read and something us Amy fans should all check out.

“You kind of sign on to the man-child thing when you work with Jason.”

I’m not sure whether the vibe is coming from the Muppets or from Jason Segel, but everyone is really happy on this set. Actually, I’m not sure there’s much of a difference between the Muppets and Segel, the 31-year-old star and co-writer of the new Muppets movie (in theaters Nov. 23). Between takes, Segel out-Muppets the actual Muppets, his grin still Kermit-wide long after the real Kermit the Frog closes his mouth and collapses around puppeteer Steve Whitmire’s hand. In the right opera balcony above the stage — which looks a lot like the original Muppet Show set — crusty Muppet critics Statler and Waldorf shake their heads disapprovingly at Segel’s enthusiasm. In the left opera balcony, the movie’s producers shake their heads too. “If you could peel away Jason’s skin,” says producer Todd Lieberman, “there might be felt underneath.”

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A second teaser trailer for The Muppets has been released, this time paying tribute to the the hit movie The Hangover. Amy is only seen briefly but I’ve added a few screencaptures to the gallery.

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For those that have already watched the teaser for The Muppets, you will know that they are using a bit of marketing redirection to make it not so obvious at first that it’s a Muppets movie. Disney is taking this misdirection very seriously as they’ve also released a poster from this fake movie titled Green With Envy. I’ve added a HQ version to the gallery.

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The first trailer for Amy’s upcoming movie The Muppets has finally been released online. I’ve added over 80 high definition screencaptures from it to our gallery and will be adding the trailer itself to the media archive soon. For now, you can view it via YouTube after the cut.

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ComingSoon just posted a fantastic exclusive interview with Amy and her Muppets co-star Jason Segal. And according to the interview, it looks as though we have at least one confirmed(?) event to look forward to this summer: Amy’s first ever appearance at Comic-Con where there will be a presentation for The Muppets.

I did not like that paparazzi was getting pictures of the Muppets being puppeted because I feel like part of the fun is for kids not to ever see that.

One of the things we were most excited about seeing at this year’s Disney presentation at CinemaCon was the first footage from their holiday release, The Muppets, because for so many people, the Muppets have come to represent everything good in the world–childhood, fun, humor–and the idea of them being brought back to the big screen after such a long time has made a lot of adults feel like kids again.

The footage shown during the presentation was a quick montage of scenes that weren’t quite in shape to be considered a “teaser trailer,” more of a sizzle reel that mostly focused on the video campaign that Disney and the Jim Henson Company have been doing to get the Muppets back into the public eye, especially for younger audiences who wouldn’t be familiar with “The Muppet Show” or some of the earlier movies.

Jason Segel, the brainchild behind reviving the Muppets, being a lifelong fan, and his leading lady Amy Adams were on-hand to talk about their love for the Muppets and what went into making the movie, which follows Segel’s character Gary and his puppet roommate Walter, both of whom are giant Muppets fans who set out to find them after they’ve split up in hopes of reuniting them in order to save the studio, finding Fozzie Bear performing in Reno and Miss Piggy in Paris and others in locations they were hesitant to reveal.

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