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Evenin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LINKEDIN here if ya like or email me at seanmcnultynyc@gmail.com), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on SUNDAY, January 11, 2026.
Where Rushfield may need to update his “Golden Globes Still Give The Ick” column from Thursday — nothing quite like getting ad 💰 for your new gambling predictions market deal . . . inside your own publication’s story about your deal . . . for the awards show you also own!
Nicely done, Jay Penske. ⛳️👏
NOW: Who wants to explain VPNs to everyone tonight when they discover that the POLYMARKET app is still banned in the U.S.?
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THEN: Things are looking up! The new White House East Wing under construction will have a new movie theater. Cobra will be the opening night pic, kicking off #StalloneFridays every week. The fact that many of you are probably like “Wait — for real?” says it all about the sad state of affairs in the White House.
UH 🙋♂️: Did one of you buy, like, a lotta AMC THEATRES stock after Friday’s Wakeup came out a little after 11 a.m., where I noted AMC was at a new all-time low and -50% in 3 months? 🧐 All good either way — but give a brotha a heads up next time!
OH: In true Monday Morning Quarterback fashion, the TV Academy is launching an annual “Legacy Award” for this year’s Emmys in a lame attempt to correct its previous fuck ups to honor TV shows from the past that were, uh, looked over in their time. It also gives classic TV shows a chance to be snubbed again, so everybody wins. 🙌
NICE: Al Michaels will be back calling TNF on AMAZON PV next season.
THEN: Golfer and Happy Gilmore 2 co-star Brooks Koepka has become the first high-profile LIV golfer to apply to rejoin the PGA, so Americans will actually watch him play golf on TV for the first time in 4 years.
What’s that? No, Brooks still gets to keep the $130M in Saudi golf money he was paid for LIV.
PLUS: An arrest warrant was issued in New Mexico for actor/director Timothy Busfield’s arrest on child abuse and criminal sexual contact of a minor charges that occurred during his time as a director on The Cleaning Lady FOX series from WBTV.
AND: Add the Washington National Opera to the list of acts deciding to cut ties with the Kennedy Center — this one was a 50-year relationship. The opera board’s decision was not unanimous, but it was made amid declining attendance and donor contributions in Trump’s 2nd term last year.
YEAH: Ok, yes, the oil biz and entertainment biz Venn diagram begins and ends with Tommy Norris . . . but just from a PR perspective — something definitely very dear to Hollywood — ya gotta love the head of EXXON MOBIL calling Venezuela currently “uninvestable,” literally at the big press event Trump held to tout the opportunity on Friday afternoon.
The CEO also noted that EXXON’s assets have been seized twice in the country already in previous attempts to do business there. Plus, I mean . . . we all saw how things worked out in Proof of Life — they lost a whole sex scene!
Trump and the“Happy Trump pin” on his lapel #SoProud also said 🤣 #FatChance when CONOCOPHILLIPS’ leader essentially inferred — yeah, it’d be great to get reimbursed for some of the $12 Billion our company has already lost in the country.
All of this while I’m pretty sure zero oil executives have any interest in getting oil down to Trump’s desired $50 a barrel mark through Venezuelan pumping. Don’t worry, fellas, just 3 more years left.
#FUNFACT: Venezuela has about $170B of debt, which is only about 2x the gross debt that a new WARNAMOUNT would be facing on day 1 🤯 (anyone know if Melrose has been probed for oil reserves?).
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My fellow primates and I kicked off the year right this weekend. #geniuses!
OVERALL: It really says it all about how little Greenland 2 is in the zeitgeist . . . where I can’t recall seeing one joke being made about this movie in conjunction with all of the Trump comments and news about the actual country last week.
FINALLY: Just a great monologue from the formerly indefinitely canceled Jimmy Kimmel to round out last week.
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