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Evenin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on SUNDAY, October 6, 2024.

Where it’s nice when the unpredictability of Hollywood . . . is matched by the unpredictability of sports.

While there are certainly many movies getting considerable buzz so far in the Oscar race — I don’t think there’s a pundit out there who would confidently place any real money on a frontrunner, or even maybe a top 3 at this point, making for a very exciting season.

And in sports — when #1 ALABAMA loses to unranked VANDERBILT, and the GIANTS beat the SEAHAWKS, one of the best teams in the NFL this season so far in the same weekend . . . well, as my mom would say, time to buy a lottery ticket.

Ok well, almost anything. Via Giphy

WELL: Remove one ’80s remake project from the big board — AMAZON put the kibosh on its development of a Who’s the Boss remake from SONY TV.

  • It also killed a Bosch spin-off around Jamie Hector’s character.

AND: Donald Glover has canceled the rest of his Childish Gambino tour:

WAKEUP BOX OFFICE POLL

The bears definitely won out on Joker Folie A Deux, well done 37%.

SEAN ON THE TOWN, PT1: A big thanks to the Hamptons Int’l Film Festival for the invitation to moderate a couple of panels this weekend — one was for the new Kenneth Cole doc A Man with SOUL: The Impact of Kenneth Cole with Kenneth and director Dori Berinstein, and a second panel was looking at the state of the independent film business in 2024 with a great lineup of folks on the theatrical frontlines.

Via Shutterstock for Hamptons Int’l Film Festival. Festival Director David Nugent, me, David Schwartz, Beth Gilligan, Ann Hicks, Stacy Spikes and Jack Heller.
Via Shutterstock for Hamptons Int’l Film Festival. Me with Kenneth Cole, who’s thinking “Wait, a guy with this kind of fashion sense is going to interview me?”

SEAN ON THE TOWN PT. 2: A second thanks goes out to FX for the invite to check out the new limited series Say Nothing tonight in NYC, centered on a not very well known story from the Troubles in Ireland, told over many years. Can’t wait to watch the rest of the series on Nov. 14 — great cast here as well.

Producers Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson introducing the series. Via my phone


📽 THE SILVER SCREEN

The laugh-cry seemed appropriate. Via Giphy

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