Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect here on LINKED IN if ya like) and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on FRIDAY December 9, 2022.

Where if you’re looking for a place to up your street cred on STATEN ISLAND (and who isn’t), let’s have our Friday Morning Coffee ☕️ at Pete Davidson’s corner apartment up near the ferry.

For just $1.3 Million, you can be #thatguy telling people that Pete & Kim totally… also had coffee here. As for Pete, yeah he’s in Brooklyn now. and no you can’t visit.

BUT: Apparently Eli Manning can – adding just a little something here for any fellow GIANTS fans… the new episode of Eli Manning’s YT series, where Eli visited Pete Davidson’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights and it was pretty great.

#FunFact – Simon Rex is living in Pete Davidson’s apartment. Yeah that tracks.

AND: Here are your National Board of Review film winners, with “Top Gun: Maverick” taking the top prize.

ALSO: Kudos to the HFPA on getting Jerrod Carmichael to host the GOLDEN GLOBES next month, great choice 👏.

RANDOM BUT: If you ever wondered how much NBA athletes make in their sneaker deals – The Huddle Up newsletter (#noRelation) did an interesting break down.

PLUS: AMAZON PRIME is launching a TIKTOK or Dating App-style function (analogy depending on where you’re life’s at), whereby you’ll be shown a series of images & videos for products from shopping categories that you pre-select, and you “swipe right” on the ones you want to buy. Warning, products may arrive at least 4 inches shorter than advertised. Also can a 3rd party retailer also ghost you? Asking for a friend.

Wakeup BOX OFFICE Poll:

Congrats to poll crew last Friday 👏, with 72% of you choosing correctly that “Violent Night” would do over $11 Million.

No new releases here on Dec 9, although “Spoiler Alert” is going wider… last weekend’s total Box Office was about $55 Million, will this weekend cross $50 Million total?

AND: Give the gift that keeps giving the whole year long… a subscription to me! Um and the rest of the fantastic suite of newsletters & podcasts here at The Ankler of course.

A great holiday gift idea for any junior execs, assistants or interns in your department or on your team. Plus if you buy subscriptions for all 3 categories of employees, Richard and I will come sing Holiday Carols at your house gratis! Oh we killed that idea? Yeah good call.

📽 THE SILVER SCREEN

So. As for the story yesterday in the Hollywood Reporter, some of it is true, some of it is half-true, some of it is not true, & some of it we haven’t decided yet whether it’s true or not.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) December 8, 2022

That’s new DC co-head James Gunn reacting in a TWITTER thread to the news of WB / DC deciding against going forward with Patty Jenkins’ script treatment for “Wonder Woman 3”, and reiterating that they’re still sorting this all out.

I.e. Not everything that was in motion at DC will still go forward (see: why they were hired in the first place), and no bigger picture decisions about the “WW” franchise have been set (I’d be pretty confident in Gal Gadot’s job security).

Read: they just didn’t see eye to eye with the Patty Jenkins script treatment, which is odd because that never happens with film treatments in Hollywood.

APPLE TV+ sets Matt Damon & Casey Affleck to star “The Instigators”

Doug Liman (“Edge of Tomorrow”, “The Bourne Identity”) is directing, the guys are playing two thieves on the run with the help of one of their therapists, after a botched robbery.

Affleck / ARTISTS FIRST is among the producers, as is Jeff Robinov / STUDIO 8. /Deadline

Reese Witherspoon & Alexander Payne re-team for “Election” sequel at PARAMOUNT… Plus

Huh. Look at the (seemingly) big bucks on PAR+ 💰. This of course will be based on the follow up Tom Perrotta novel “Tracy Flick Can’t Win” that was published this Summer. Payne is also co-writing with his usual partner Jim Taylor, and Reese / HELLO SUNSHINE is producing.

The book picked up with Flick as an assistant principal at a public high school in Jersey. Always the last place ya look…. /THR

ALSO IN MOVIES

Lorene Scafaria (“Hustlers”) is replacing John Carney (“Sing Street”) as director on the BEE GEES movie at PARAMOUNT, from GK FILMS. /AboveTheLine
UNI adds Michelle Yeoh to “Wicked” pics, playing “Madame Morrible”. Pt 1 slated for Dec 2024 release (pt 2 Dec 2025). /Variety
APPLE TV+ adds Luke Wilson, Annie Murphy to sci-fi love story “Fingernails” pic starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Jeremy Allen White. It’s set in a future where a test can determine if couples are truly in love, and a mysterious instructor at an institute dedicated to helping couples succeed. /Deadline

IN THE REST OF TODAY’S EDITION:

DISNEY+ sets a big e-commerce partnership deal with a major AMAZON-like AUSSIE Retailer
“Yellowstone” puts… PEACOCK on the NIELSEN map
APPLE TV+ reunites “Black Bird” team for new series
Michael Bay parts ways with longtime agency
How much did TIKTOK make for 2022’s most streamed song?
Busy day in the Trailer House with new spots from HBO, PEACOCK, NEON, AMAZON and NETFLIX, plus a look at the new things to watch this weekend and more.