{"id":38194,"date":"2026-06-22T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/?p=38194"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:40:38","slug":"celebrity-status-toy-story-sesame-street-and-the-grinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/uncategorized\/2026\/06\/celebrity-status-toy-story-sesame-street-and-the-grinch\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Status: Toy Story, Sesame Street, And The Grinch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Disney and Pixar unwrapped a major box office<\/a> gift with Toy Story 5<\/a>, which is headed toward the biggest opening of the year so far of $160 million at the domestic box office. Internationally, it is pulling in $152 million, for a global start of $312 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The domestic launch number is the biggest of 2026 so far, topping the Super Mario Bros. Galaxy movie, which had a three-day launch of $130.9 million domestically in April. (It opened two days early for the Easter holidays and boasted a five-day number of $190.1 million.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s also a record for the franchise, topping Toy Story 4\u2018s $120.9 million launch in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The TV world is mourning the death of James Burrows<\/a>, the legendary comedy director and producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burrows, 85, died Friday<\/a>, his family said in a statement: \u201cFor more than five decades, Burrows was one of the most influential and beloved directors in television history. As a legendary director, mentor and creative force, he helped shape generations of comedy and brought immeasurable joy to audiences around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burrows was one of the most prolific and revered comedy directors in TV history. He helmed every episode of Will & Grace (both its original run and the 2017-20 revival) and 236 of the 270 episodes of Cheers<\/a>, which he co-created with Glen and Les Charles. The 11-time Emmy winner also directed 75 episodes of Taxi, 49 episodes of Mike & Molly, 32 episodes of Frasier<\/a>, 15 episodes of Friends and all 10 episodes of 2025\u2019s Mid-Century Modern from Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick. Those are just a fraction of his credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Netflix<\/a> has cookies to nom, nom, nom on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Netflix has landed the feature film rights to Sesame Street<\/a>, the long-running and iconic children\u2019s educational television show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rideback, the production company behind the billion-dollar live-action Lilo & Stitch and Aladdin movies, and run by Jonathan Eirich and Michael Lofaso, will produce the feature.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jim Carrey is in talks to star in a sequel to How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/a> with Ron Howard returning to direct, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney and Pixar unwrapped a major box office gift with Toy Story 5, which is headed toward the biggest opening of the year so far of $160 million at the domestic box office. Internationally, it is pulling in $152 million, for a global start of $312 million. The domestic launch number is the biggest of","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":37617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings","category-the-daily-scoop","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 18:16:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/1017theone.ca\/uncategorized\/2026\/06\/celebrity-status-toy-story-sesame-street-and-the-grinch\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38195,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194\/revisions\/38195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}