List of The Jim Henson Company films

This is a list of notable feature films produced by The Jim Henson Company.

Film releases

Released

Year	Film	Directed by	Distributor(s)	Budget	Gross
1979	The Muppet Movie	James Frawley	Associated Film Distribution	$8 million	$65.2 million
1981	The Great Muppet Caper	Jim Henson	Universal Pictures	$14 million	$31.2 million
1982	The Dark Crystal	Jim Henson Frank Oz	Universal Pictures Associated Film Distribution[a] (United States) United International Pictures (United Kingdom)[2]	$25 million	$41.4 million
1984	The Muppets Take Manhattan	Frank Oz	Tri-Star Pictures (United States) Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors (United Kingdom)	$8 million	$25.5 million
1985	Follow That Bird	Ken Kwapis	Warner Bros.	—	$13.9 million
1986	Labyrinth	Jim Henson	Tri-Star Pictures (United States) Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors[3] (United Kingdom)	$25 million	$34 million
1990	The Witches	Nicolas Roeg	Warner Bros.	$11 million	$15.3 million
1992	The Muppet Christmas Carol	Brian Henson	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution	$12 million	$27.2 million
1996	Muppet Treasure Island			$31 million	$34.3 million
1997	Buddy	Caroline Thompson	Columbia Pictures Industries Sony Pictures Releasing	$19 million	$10.1 million
1999	Muppets from Space	Tim Hill		$24 million	$22.3 million
	The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland	Gary Halvorson		$26 million	$12 million
2000	Rat	Steve Barron	Universal Focus	—	$2,630
2003	Good Boy!	John Hoffman	MGM Distribution Co. (United States) 20th Century Fox (Canada/International)[4]	$18 million	$45.3 million
2004	Five Children and It	John Stephenson	Pathé Distribution (United Kingdom) Warner Home Video (United States) Metropolitan Filmexport (France) Capitol Films (international)	—	$1.5 million
2005	MirrorMask	Dave McKean	Samuel Goldwyn Films	$4 million	$973,613
2014	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Miguel Arteta	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures	$28 million	$100.6 million
2017	The Star	Timothy Reckart	Sony Pictures Releasing	$20 million	$62.8 million
2018	The Happytime Murders	Brian Henson	STX Entertainment	$40-47 million	$27.5 million
2022	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro Mark Gustafson	Netflix	$35 million	$109,846
2023	The Portable Door	Jeffrey Walker	Madman Films Sky Cinema Stan MGM+	—	$801,082[5]
2024	Jim Henson Idea Man	Ron Howard	Disney+	—
2025	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip	Marvin Lemus		—

Upcoming

Year	Film	Directed by	Distributor(s)
TBA	Untitled Labyrinth sequel	Robert Eggers	Sony Pictures Releasing
	The Buried Giant	Guillermo del Toro	Netflix
	Grendel	Robert D. Krzykowski	TBA

Other productions

• Muppet*Vision 3D (1991; with Walt Disney Imagineering)
• Kermit's Swamp Years (2002; with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

In development

• Monster Safari
• Lore Olympus^[6]

Notes

1. The film's distribution rights were purchased by The Jim Henson Company from ITC Entertainment in August 1984.^[1] Currently, Universal Pictures handles theatrical distribution in the United States and internationally (including the United Kingdom^[2]) due to prior contractual obligations with the former Associated Film Distribution and ITC, but the film’s ownership and copyright are controlled by The Jim Henson Company.