{"id":118781,"date":"2024-11-12T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/12\/john-mayer-is-buying-henson-studios-home-of-the-muppets\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:01:37","slug":"john-mayer-is-buying-henson-studios-home-of-the-muppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/12\/john-mayer-is-buying-henson-studios-home-of-the-muppets\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mayer is buying Henson Studios, home of The Muppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-12\/Getty_JohnMayer_111224.jpg\" alt><figcaption> ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \"><strong>John Mayer<\/strong>: Singer, songwriter, guitarist and now &#8230; Hollywood mogul?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/john-mayer-mcg-jim-henson-lot-hollywood-1236058985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> John has teamed up with director <strong>McG<\/strong>, best known for <em>Charlie&#8217;s Angels<\/em>, to buy Henson Studios, described by the publication as &#8220;the historic Hollywood home of The Muppets.&#8221; They&#8217;re currently in contact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">Apparently John has offices on the property, and when the clock ran out on another interested party&#8217;s deal, he decided to go for it, according to <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. The deal is reportedly in the $60 million range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">The late<strong> Jim Henson<\/strong>, creator of The Muppets, acquired the lot in 1999 from A&amp;M Records for a reported $12.5 million. Prior to 1953, it was owned by iconic actor <strong>Charlie Chaplin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m \">It&#8217;s not clear what John and McG will do with the lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty Images John Mayer: Singer, songwriter, guitarist and now &#8230; Hollywood mogul? According to The Hollywood Reporter, John has teamed up with director McG, best known for Charlie&#8217;s Angels, to buy Henson Studios, described by the publication as &#8220;the historic Hollywood home of The Muppets.&#8221; They&#8217;re currently<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/11\/12\/john-mayer-is-buying-henson-studios-home-of-the-muppets\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}