☀️ HBO, ABC Re-Enlist Talent For New Projects
AMAZON, Ritchie part ways / PAR sets Steinfeld for rom-com / ‘Virgin River’ sets NETFLIX record
Mornin! 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 Friday, July 11, 2025.
Where it’s been ages since we’ve had a Friday morning coffee together ☕️, and what better way to do so than at this pretty cool place I found on AIRBNB in the Chicagoland area!
Some dude named “MJ” used to live there and apparently he was really into basketball (big BULLS fan evidently) . . . since he built his own full-length court inside.
But there are 7 bedrooms, so plenty of space to make yourselves comfortable . . . and the 15 bathrooms and 5 half bathrooms mean you never have to take a leak in the same place twice! Even if some of them could, uh, use an upgrade.
So, who has the roughly $110k that the new homeowner is charging for a 7-day stay in Illinois? I mean, when you pay $9.5M for a house that was on the market for 12 years and formerly owned by an NBA legend, gotta amortize those costs somehow.
PLUS: With GOOGLE’s new AI tool that lets paid subs for its Gemini AI Ultra product turn a photo into an 8-second video with sound — just think of the fun you could have!
Although as GOOGLE policies prohibit creating “videos using images of celebrities, politicians, or other public figures,” you’ll have to get creative on how you insert Jordan into them.
AND: If you tell CHATGPT certain things about yourself, it sounds like it’ll remember them . . . which could be helpful for things like your medical history — but maybe not so much about your personal history (what do you mean you and Bill are no longer together?!).
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I’m having some fun this weekend and casting my lot in with the $140M+ dreamers visionaries on Superman.
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