Talk:The Blue Elephant

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I'm mostly info parking, and to prevent page creation, for awhile at least. On September 2, a DVD called The Blue Elephant is being released. Most websites, both Muppet fansites and others, call this a Henson production, and some of the publicity material implies it as well. However, the full press release on Henson.com, in guarded language, clarifies that this is in fact a pre-existing movie dubbed into English. The new "Jim Henson Company: Discoveries" label, described as an acquisitions banner, is being used for this, in joint with the Weinstein Company and Genius Products (the latter the actual DVD label), to present "third party produced titles that reflect the Company’s long-standing tradition of creative excellence." In this case, it's a 2006 CG film from Thailand about elephants and the righteousness of war or somesuch, released in its native country as Khan Kluay. It's dubbed into English, but at this point, I'm not even sure how much involvement Henson actually had in that. So at the most they dubbed it, at they least they lent their name to this banner and to the project. Either way, it's fairly removed from our goals here on the Muppet Wiki. Because of the confusion, though, it might be worth at least documenting enough to clarify, but if any more "Jim Henson Company: Discoveries" surface, they should probably all be covered in a single article. Right now, I'm redirecting the article redlink to this talkpage, until I or someone else has a chance to check the credits and see if that clarifies whether Henson just lent its name or had anything to do with the actual dubbing process (possibly, they just arranged for the "star" voices of Carl Reiner and Martin Short, since the other names I've come across so far are basically unknowns or the usual suspects when dubbing anime and other foreign-language productions). -- Andrew Leal (talk ) 21:00, 30 August 2008 (UTC)