John Mayer buys Muppets studio lot 'for $60M' with Charlie's Angels director McG

John Mayer has teamed up with filmmaker McG to buy the historic Los Angeles lot owned by The Jim Henson Company, the studio behind the Muppets. McG and Mayer are thought to have cumulatively paid approximately $60 million in order to obtain The Jim Henson Company Lot. John Mayer has teamed up with filmmaker McG to buy the historic Los Angeles lot owned by The Jim Henson Company, the studio behind the Muppets McG, whose Christian name is Joseph McGinty Nichol, has directed such films as Terminator Salvation, We Are Marshall and This Means War. McG and Mayer are thought to have cumulatively paid approximately $60 million in order to obtain The Jim Henson Company Lot; a statue of Kermit The Frog is pictured on the premises Mayer, 47, who already had offices there, is now officially 'under contract' with McG to buy the studio, the singer's representative told The Hollywood Reporter The lot once belonged to Charlie Chaplin and was then held by A&M Records before it was acquired by the Henson firm in 1999, reportedly for $12.5 million The beloved puppets are pictured in a publicity shot for Muppets Now, an improvisational series that premiered on Disney+ in 2020 Muppets creator Jim Henson died after contracting a bacterial infection aged just 53 in 1990, nine years before his firm acquired the studio Mayer and McG have just bought McG made his directorial debut with the 2000 Charlie's Angels film starring Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore Charlie Chaplin had the original studio built in 1917, when the silent movie star was reaching the height of his international fame A number of his iconic movies - including The Kid, The Gold Rush, City Lights and The Great Dictator - were shot on the premises.