Behind the Scenes Buzz with Margot Robbie and Sesame Street

MARGOT ROBBIE TALKS INVESTMENT STRATEGY: Margot Robbie and her husband Tom Ackerley founded a production company with Josey McNamara in 2014, well before they were big stars. Called LuckyChap Entertainment, they have released multiple hits since, including I, Tonya. She explained their strategy to The Hollywood Reporter: “We never started a company to be a starring vehicle for me or to be a platform for me to chase my dreams. It was really that we wanted to expand what female stories and female storytellers could do in this industry, and I don’t need to be onscreen for that to happen. But it’s a wonderful position to be in since my platform can also open some of those doors. And especially at the beginning, there were a lot of first- and second-time filmmakers that we wanted to work with, and you can’t get something greenlit without a bankable name attached and I’m so lucky to fall into that bracket [of bankable names]. But I’m not right for every role.” Next up is Promising Young Woman, a comedic revenge thriller starring Carey Mulligan.

CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG BOARDS THE ALMOND: Charlotte Gainsbourg is joining Rebel Wilson in The Almond and the Seahorse. The film features Wilson in her first non-comedy role, and is being directed by the Oscar-nominated cinematographer Tom Stern and Celyn Jones.

SESAME STREET DOCUMENTARY SOLD TO SCREEN MEDIA: Screen Media has bought the North American rights to HBO’s Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street and will introduce the title at 2021 Sundance Film Festival in January. Screen Media will release in theaters and on HBO and HBO Max in 2021.

L.A. LAW SEQUEL IN THE WORKS: ABC is rebooting L.A. Law with Blair Underwood set to reprise his role as attorney Jonathan Rollins; he’ll exec produce as well. L.A. Law ran 1986-1994 on NBC, and scored four Emmys for drama series. L.A. Law’s reboot joins other recreations of  Night Court (NBC), Little House on the Prairie (Paramount TV Studios/Anonymous Content) and a primetime version of All My Children called Pine Valley (ABC).