{"id":2195,"date":"2026-06-20T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2026-06-20T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:38:07","slug":"netflix-wins-sesame-street-movie-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2195","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Wins \u2018Sesame Street\u2019 Movie Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<svg><\/svg> <span>Logo text<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<br \/>Netflix has cookies to nom, nom, nom on.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Coming on top of a two-company bidding war, the streaming giant has landed the feature film rights to <em>Sesame Street<\/em>, the long-running and iconic children\u2019s educational television show.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Rideback, the production company behind the billion-dollar live-action <em>Lilo &amp; Stitch <\/em>and<em> Aladdin<\/em> movies, and run by Jonathan Eirich and Michael Lofaso, will produce the feature. The company had already been working with Sesame Workshop, the company behind the show, on an animation project, and was able to get an early jump. Sesame Workshop will be involved in a producer capacity as well.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2193\">James Burrows Appreciation: Warren Littlefield Says \u201cThere Would Have Been No \u2018Must See TV\u2019 on NBC Without Jimmy\u201d (Exclusive)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tNetflix had no comment.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The move brings <em>Sesame Street<\/em> fully into Netflix\u2019s arms as the streamer already has the television rights, something it picked up in May 2025.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Who would acquire the movie rights has been about a year-long contest. Sesame Workshop signed with CAA in the fall and initially it was a three-way grouch match between Netflix, Universal and, according to sources, Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWarners, who actually had the feature rights for about a decade but was never able to get to a Sesame Street movie, bowed out early amid acquisition drama, first by Netflix, then by Paramount.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Universal proved a strong contender as it had The Daniels, the <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once <\/em>filmmaking team of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, attached to produce as well as Phil Lord and Chris Miller. (Neither entity was attached to direct, sources stress.)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In the end, Netflix prevailed. It helped that Sesame Workshop also approved of Rideback\u2019s approach to the material. No filmmaker is currently attached. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2191\">George Lucas Cast in \u2018Minions &amp; Monsters\u2019 After Revealing Love for Minions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tSesame Street is\u00a0best known as the home of the Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster and Elmo. The series has generated two previous big-screen adaptations, 1985\u2019s<em>Follow That Bird\u00a0<\/em>and 1999\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Bird<\/em>\u00a0featured\u00a0John Candy, Chevy Chase\u00a0and\u00a0Dave Thomas\u00a0as well as the marquee puppets. It was distributed by Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2189\">Rebecca Hall on Finding a New Frequency with \u2018The Listeners\u2019 and Whether \u2018Onslaught\u2019 Is a Stealth \u2018The Guest\u2019 Sequel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Insneider newsletter first reported the news of Netflix\u2019s acquisition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has won the movie rights to &#8216;Sesame Street&#8217; after a bidding war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,1818],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-netflix","tag-sesame-street"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Netflix Wins \u2018Sesame Street\u2019 Movie Rights - 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