The makers of Sesame Street are suing the promoter of a new Melissa McCarthy movie, saying it’s abusing the famed puppets’ sterling reputation to advertise the R-rated film. McCarthy plays a human detective who teams with a puppet partner to investigate grisly puppet murders. The lawsuit said the Sesame Street brand will be harmed by a just-released movie trailer featuring “explicit, profane, drug-using, misogynistic, violent, copulating and even ejaculating puppets” along with the tagline “NO SESAME. She also said the Hensons did not view the film as a parody of the Muppets and “resisted creative suggestions. … Therefore, trading off the famous Muppets to sell the film is exactly what we did not want to have happen,” the court papers said.

Source: The Star May 26, 2018 03:56 UTC