Mornin! Here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026.
Where ya gotta love MISSISSIPPI STATE QB Kamario Taylor getting $7.5M to return to play for the college football team next year (with incentives up to $9M), so hopefully he’s fitting in some accounting classes between games.
Then again, when the team goes 4-0 with you at QB . . . and 0-5 after you got hurt, he certainly doesn’t need a linguistics class to understand the nuance of “leverage.”
Eh, I’m sure he’s still just like any other student on campus.
AND: If you’re a big Wild Horse Nine fan, SEARCHLIGHT has partnered with a UMG subsidiary to create a merch store — gotta say, the “Good luck with all the democracy and stuff” T-shirt is a smart look.
OH: NETFLIX announced its KPop Demon Hunters: Golden World Tour dates next summer — you can register for when tickets go on sale for your date here.
PLUS: THE RINGER canceled its CHATGPT sponsor/partnership deal — with Bill Simmons saying in a statement: “We learned almost immediately that those segments weren’t a fit for us — our audience just didn’t like them.”
WELL: BUZZFEED has had a fun November so far (it was down another 14% yesterday).
OH: If you’ve been feeling the need to take better care of your skin this fall, you can thank the NFL — #BigPharma TV ad spending on skin disorder drugs during sports this year through October is +42% YoY, according to new data from ISPOT.
AH: If you’ve been counting on GROK to make those totally cool videos of you and Jensen Huang this week for your friend text chains . . . get ’em all in soon — Elon laid off about 60 folks in the GROK IMAGINE group (which handles video/image generation) according to The Information, as he shifts his AI focus to coding and agents. #boring
YEAH: Sales of existing U.S. homes fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.75M in the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS’ October report — that’s the lowest number since 2010 / coming out of the Great Recession. Interest rates were down a smidge last week . . . but still around 7.15%, with another Fed interest rate hike likely coming next month.
ET TU? 😢: You know it’s getting really dark when the gambling platforms start shunning you . . . as it seems KALSHI is reading its own odds these days — it’s dumping Don Jr. as an advisor.
- It cited his 1789 CAPITAL’s investments in rival POLYMARKET as the main concern — investments that have existed . . . pretty much the entire time he has been advising KALSHI.
- Seriously? Couldn’t think of anything else there, Tarek? Hopefully KALSHI finds a way forward without the guiding wisdom of DJTJ’s sharp business acumen.
FINALLY: Today’s Wakeup is brought to you by MICROSOFT: We Hope You Enjoyed the Downtime. Now, enjoy your Friday the 13th.
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