{"id":41129,"date":"2017-09-14T20:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=41129"},"modified":"2017-09-14T20:41:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:41:27","slug":"elizabeth-banks-joins-happytime-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/14\/elizabeth-banks-joins-happytime-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Banks Joins HAPPYTIME MURDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ElizabethBanks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ElizabethBanks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Banks has signed onto the cast of the upcoming mystery comedy <strong>The Happytime Murders<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Set in the gritty, darker side of a Los Angeles where humans and puppets exist side-by-side, <strong>The Happytime Murders<\/strong> teams a human detective (Melissa McCarthy) and a puppet detective (longtime Henson puppeteer Bill Barretta) who have to work together to solve the serial murders of the puppet cast of a popular children&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n<p>Banks will be playing an exotic dancer. Also in the cast is Maya Rudolph who plays the puppet detective&#8217;s secretary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Happytime Murders<\/strong> has long been a passion project of Brian Henson and has gone through a variety of people attached to the project before McCarthy&#8217;s interest this past spring that secured funding. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Happytime Murders<\/strong> is set for release on August 17, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The comic actress has signed onto Brian Henson&#8217;s puppet noir film.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/14\/elizabeth-banks-joins-happytime-murders\/\" title=\"Elizabeth Banks Joins HAPPYTIME MURDERS\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4793,496,4223,4792],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-brian-henson","8":"tag-elizabeth-banks","9":"tag-melissa-mccarthy","10":"tag-the-happytime-murders"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41129"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=41129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}