☀️ McKay abandons NETFLIX Political pic for Climate pic

DISNEY NFL experiments continue / HULU sets Kim K series / Why SPOTIFY is cutting staff 20+% in record year

Dec 5, 2023

Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on TUESDAY, December 5 2023.

Where the final voting season of 2023 ends in Hollywood-at-large today at 5 p.m. PT, as SAG-AFTRA counts up the final membership votes on the new AMPTP deal. Anyone have the latest over-under on vote count at ESPN BET?

SO: What say you?

ALSO: Bill Burr has set his 16-city tour dates for 2024, starting in Feb. Tix go on sale tomorrow… although no NYC dates, and the closest he’s getting to LA is Palm Springs. Then again – 16 dates across 5 months leaves a lot of room to add more.

PLUS: The Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen will open on Broadway at the Shubert Theater in late March, moving up from its current home at the Public Theater.

AND: Colbert is now off again this week, still recovering from his appendicitis procedure.

THEN: Kevin Hart is doing a Manningcast-style alt-cast for the NBA Cup final this Saturday night on ESPN2 at 9 p.m., produced by Peyton’s OMAHA and Kev’s HARTBEAT. Kev will be joined by his Plastic Cup Boyz and special guest celebs.

IN TODAY’S EDITION

Media company has their biggest year ever of user gains, returns to profitability in Q3… and now cuts 17% of their staff. A look at wtf is going on at SPOTIFY.
Adam McKay seemingly has a change of thought on his already-cast NETFLIX pic, shifts to pursue another project.
AMAZON makes moves on the global Sports rights stage… as DISNEY continues to experiment with their NFL games this year.
VERIZON sets a 5-Streaming services for $20 deal 👀.
Layoff hit the New Yorker as part of CONDE austerirty, Kim K sets her 2nd acting role in 2 weeks, Jamie Foxx returns to the the public eye, APPLE TV+ sets a PVOD window for their theatrical endeavors, AMAZON adds another 90s-based series and… a lot more on a busy day.

AND A THANKS: To NETFLIX for freaking me out last night at the Leave the World Behind premiere, err in the good way. Mostly. I don’t think I’ll look at deer in the forest quite the same way again 😳.