Mornin! This is Sean McNulty and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on MONDAY August 29, 2022.

Where 🤞 for me being able to take a couple days off this week – I mean it’s really dependent upon all of you people also taking vacations… but just a note to say I’ll be playing this week by ear with newsletters 🤠.

BUT: James Austin Johnson – you have competition. SNL needs to have Jamie Foxx on ASAP this Fall – this is a very spot-on Trump impression 👏.

PLUS: Here are your 2022 MTV VMA Winners.

AND: TSWIFT announced her next album “Midnights” will drop on Oct 21, although I’m not sure at what time…

• And good thing she just happened to win the VMA Video of the Year award last night so she could make that announcement. Isn’t it nice when life just ya know, works out that way?

AND AND: Happy 25 years to NETFLIX! Although I can’t help but think I’d definitely watch more Movies (& possibly even series) if I still was doing the DVD thing vs. the Streaming thing…

📽 THE SILVER SCREEN

BOX OFFICE

1. “The Invitation” – $7 Million

• All I got is 🤷‍♂️🙇‍♂️

2. “Bullet Train” : $5.6 million ($78 Million US, $159 Million global)

• Modest -30% drop

3. Beast” : $5 Million ($20 Million US, $36 Million global)

• An OK -58% drop from opening weekend

4. “Top Gun: Maverick” : $4.8 Million ($691 Million US, $1.4 Billion global)

• -20% drop

• If PARAMOUNT makes one last “Sign off Summer with Maverick” Ad push (which could get it over $700 Million)… you could see this movie back at #1 to win Labor Day if the wind blows the right way.

  • And / Or if PAR ups the theater count again from 2900.

5. “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” : $4.5 Million ($30 Million US, $57 Million global)

• -78% drop from opening weekend. Well that was nice while it lasted.

6. “DC League of Super Pets” : $4.2 Million ($74 Million US, $138 Million global)

• -26% drop from last weekend

7. “3000 Years of Longing” : $2.9 Million

• Considering the lack of Ad campaign here from AMAZON… this tracks.

ELSEWHERE AT THE BOX OFFICE

• BLEECKER STREET’s John Boyega movie “Breaking” did $1 Million from 900 screens.

Yeah these numbers are bad…