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On top of a bidding war between the two companies, the streaming giant has acquired the rights to the feature film Sesame Streetthe popular long-running children’s educational television program.
Rideback, the production company behind the billion-dollar live-action hit Lilo and Stitch and Aladdin These films will be produced and directed by Jonathan Irish and Michael Lofaso. The company was already working with Sesame Workshop, the company behind the show, on an animation project, and was able to get an early jump. Sesame workshop will share the production capacity as well.
Netflix had no comment.
Bring this step Sesame Street Entirely in the arms of Netflix since the streamer already owns the TV rights, something it acquired in May 2025.
The question of who would get the film rights was a year-long contest. Sesame Workshop signed with CAA in the fall, initially a three-way match between Netflix, Universal, and, according to sources, Warner Bros.
Warners, which had already owned the rights to the show for about a decade but never had access to a Sesame Street movie, pulled out early amid the acquisition drama, first by Netflix, then by Paramount.
Universal proved to be a strong competitor as was the case with The Daniels, the Everything everywhere at once The filmmaking team consists of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, as well as Phil Lord and Chris Miller. (Neither entity has been linked to the direct order, sources confirm.)
In the end, Netflix won. It helped that Sesame Workshop also approved of Rideback’s approach to the material. There is no filmmaker currently online.
Sesame Street is famous for being the home of Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, and Elmo. The series spawned two previous big screen adaptations in 1985Follow this bird And 1999 Elmo’s Adventures in Grouchland. bird It featured John Candy, Chevy Chase, and Dave Thomas as well as the Muppets. It is distributed by Warner Bros.
News of the Netflix acquisition was first reported by Insneider Newsletter.
