Evenin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LINKEDIN here if ya like or email me at seanmcnultynyc@gmail.com), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on SUNDAY, May 17, 2026.
Where let’s start with a congrats to Aaron Rai for winning the prestigious PGA Championship today.
This is Aaron’s first major golf championship, so alas, he’s without gifs . . . but this advice never ages.
AND: Here is Colbert’s final week on CBS:
- MONDAY: The Worst of The Late Show
- TUESDAY: Jon Stewart, Steven Spielberg, performance by David Byrne and Stephen Colbert
- WEDNESDAY: Various guests for The Colbert Questionert and a performance by Bruce Springsteen
- THURSDAY: Finale, tune in and find out!
YEAH: Nothing like waiting until after 12 midnight to start an MMA fight that lasts . . . 17 seconds. Kudos to all of you who stayed up to watch Rousey vs. Carano on NETFLIX last night (and congrats to Rousey on the easy payday). We’ll see if this fight makes her biography pic in the works . . . also at NETFLIX.
YAH: Iron Lung will debut May 31 on YOUTUBE for purchase, no word on the price point.
AH: Alex Cooper is expecting a baby with her husband, Matt Kaplan.
ALSO: I guess we’ll see if/when we get the last 2 Avatar pics — James Cameron said he is figuring out how to make them “in half the time for two-thirds of the cost,” a process that will take “a year or so,” and “I don’t know if the saga goes beyond this point. I hope it does.”
THEN: Few things made my inner ’90s high schooler smile more last week than this NYT look at how Gen Z is embracing hacky sack life, just like their ‘uncool’ uncles did decades ago.
BOX OFFICE PREDICTION
- FOCUS’ Obsession beat both industry prognostication and my own $11M to $13M optimism, well done!
🎥 The Box Office
Never a great sign when America was more interested in paying to see a movie from 40 years ago than in 2 of the 3 new offerings Hollywood had for them.
That’s coupled with the worst second-week drop for a studio movie in wide release that I can think of.
But the movie Hollywood offered this weekend, specifically geared toward the people who go to the movies most — 18-34s — did very well! Who’da thunk.
Here’s everything afoot to know on a Sunday summer-esque weekend.
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