The Count (2020 film)/Trivia


 * This is the first PG-rated Sesame Street film and the first Sesame Street origin story.
 * This is the first Sesame Street film to not fail at the box office. Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird! and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland were both huge commercial failures. Not only was this film hugely successful (it grossed $239 million on a $45 million budget), but it also spawned a potential Sesame Street Cinematic Universe.
 * The second Sesame Street film to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the first film being Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird!.
 * The original director was going to be David Gordon Green, the director of the 2018 Halloween film, but after he turned down the film to direct Halloween (2018), Tim Burton took his place.
 * The crew was the same crew who worked on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.