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Sesame Street Took ‘The Happytime Murders’ to Court and the Ejaculating Puppets Already Won the Case
To recap, Sesame Workshop filed a lawsuit one week ago against Brian Henson’s upcoming rated “R” puppet movie The Happytime Murders, specifically targeting the marketing of the film. In summation, they say the promotion makes unauthorized use of the Sesame Street mark with the tagline, “No Sesame. All Street”. Furthermore, they claim that the sexually explicit, for-adults material of The Happytime Murders damages the wholesome Sesame Street brand, which the marketing links itself to.
In response, STX Entertainment issued a response from a puppet lawyer this week.
Just one week after the suit was filed, a New York judge has already tossed it out on the grounds that Sesame Workshop “didn’t demonstrate that moviegoers were confused or that sponsors or parents were complaining” about the marketing for The Happytime Murders. This means STX Entertainment can continue marketing the film as they wish.
So, uh, hooray for ejaculating puppets?!
The Happytime Murders, starring Melissa McCarthy, arrives on August 17.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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