☀️DON'T WORRY DARLING (mostly) hits targets, gets tepid audience response

OPRAH and APPLE TV break up / PAR & NLC look to revive 2000s franchises / AMAZON makes employee bonus payment error

Mornin! This is Sean McNulty and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on MONDAY September 26, 2022.

Where Greetings from Singapore! Did you know this place has a UNIVERSAL STUDIOS??  I really shoulda worked out a sponsorship.

And never let it be said I don’t do pizza research wherever I go in the world.

gotta say - a very solid sauce if you’re a big fresh oregano fan like me.

ALSO: I finally watched “Crazy Rich Asians” on the plane over here (I’m nothing if not cliche) - really good! As… pretty much everyone told me in 2018. Now even more baffling to me - how is there not a sequel already in production??

• Let’s hope Amy Wang is a fast writer… she was brought on 6 months ago after the pay-disparity fiasco with the 2 writers on the original. But seriously 2024 (at the earliest) seems way too long for a slam dunk sequel like this no?

AND: As I was on a 19 hour flight this weekend… gonna hand it over toVariety’s roundup of every trailer link from NETFLIX’s Tudum thing on Saturday. Actually I probably woulda done that anyway but gonna blame the flight.

PLUS: Q3 ends on Friday… still no sign of a STARZ deal from LIONSGATE.

&: RIHANNA is your first-ever APPLE MUSIC SUPERBOWL HALFTIME SHOW performer on FOX this February, so between this year and last - JAY-Z hasn’t even left his “close friends” contact list to book this thing. Then again when you’re JAY-Z…

OH THIS 👎: TIKTOK is adding one of those. Sure that’ll help (although this sounds like it may be used to help police trolling or spam comments… mostly).

IN THIS EDITION:

• A look at Oprah’s APPLE TV+ output in 4 years as her deal is not renewed

• The full weekend BOX OFFICE breakdown

• AMAZON taking back erroneous bonuses to promoted employees

• APPLE keeps it streaming (mostly) with big Holiday pic

• NEW LINE & PARAMOUNT set director talent for reboots of 2000s franchises

• Robert Kyncl’s upcoming payday at WARNER MUSIC and more.

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📽 THE SILVER SCREEN

little somethin for the haters. via Giphy