Mornin! This is Sean McNulty and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on FRIDAY October 15, 2021.

Where Hollywood had a very quiet day as the town awaits the verdict as to whether they’ll be returning to face a widespread TV & Movie production strike on Monday morning, with IATSE telling its members to “Assume there will be a strike and hope there isn’t” 😳.

But… at least ADELE is here! Though be easy on her. Ok that admittedly wasn’t my finest.

ALSO: This’ll be really quick… but a lotta new trailers to check out!

AND: Not Entertainment related but just found this interesting: over 50% of AIRBNB’s business is now rentals over 1 week long, and 20% is rentals over a month. Companies insisting on a full return to office 5-day a week policy may find themselves at a bit of a hiring disadvantage.

📽 THE SILVER SCREEN

Rachel Weisz starring in LEGENDARY’s “Seance on a Wet Afternoon”

Now that’s a title. Based on a 1961 book about a self-proclaimed psychic medium who convinces her husband to kidnap a kid so she can help the police solve the crime and achieve fame…. but somehow that plan doesn’t go as you might think. Or I guess it goes exactly how you might think.

Tomas Alfredson directing (“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”). /Deadline

📺 THE TV SET

Just a few brief things

• AMAZON orders “Jack Ryan” Season 4. Michael Pena joining the cast, Season 3 is wrapped… but no premiere date yet. /Deadline

• DISCOVERY+ orders KESHA paranormal-exploration show “Conjuring Kesha”, apparently creating a new female pop-star ghost hunting genre to go with Demi Lovato’s explorations on PEACOCK.

• STARZ renews “Blindspotting” for Season 2.

• DISNEY+ producing 18 Original series for Asia-Pacific region over the next year. Following in NETFLIX’s localized original content path… but making nowhere near the revenue of NETFLIX to support it. /THR

• DISNEY+ MARVEL “Hawkeye” series will premiere with 2 of its 6 episodes on Wed Nov 24. There’s a new holiday-themed 1 minute promo for it here.

💻 THE MEDIA BIZ

Although: Renown NEW YORKER Media journalist Ken Auletta announced his next book will be on the career of Harvey Weinstein. Will come out in July. /Axios

And: Nicholas Kristof is leaving the NY TIMES as he gets closer to a run for Governor in Oregon.

Also: The new Sam Mendes-directed show “The Lehman Trilogy” may be the hot ticket on BROADWAY this holiday season, as it got pretty uniform glowing reviews yesterday, here’s VARIETY’s.

🏦 STOCK NOTES:

A slightly up day on Thursday but no big moves, outside of VIMEO once again, up another 6%.

👩‍💻 THE FSS FEED:

(new Stuff to Watch this weekend, Friday - Saturday - Sunday)

FRIDAY

IN THEATERS:

UNI / PEACOCK “Halloween Kills” - In theaters and streaming here on PEACOCK.

DISNEYFOX “The Last Duel” - Only in theaters. Will go to HBOMAX in streaming eventually.

• ALSO: ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE finally opens first Manhattan location in Battery Park City today.

STREAMING:

MOVIES

APPLE TV+ “The Velvet Underground” docu.  Watch or Add to Your List here but also in select theaters.

UNIVERSAL “Dear Evan Hansen” hits $20 PVOD home rental OnDemand, iTunes etc.

SERIES

NETFLIX “You” Season 3 - Watch or Add to Your List here

AMAZON “I Know What You Did Last Summer” - First 4 episodes drop today, other 4 will drop weekly.  Watch or Add to Your List here

APPLE TV+ “The Problem with Jon Stewart” - New episode on “Freedom”. Watch or Add to Your List here

TV:

NBC “Home Sweet Home” - A twist on the “families swap houses for a while” genre featuring people from different racial, economic and religious backgrounds, from Ava Duvernay. Airs at 8p. 

SHOWTIME “Passion Play: Russell Westbrook” - A documentary (?) about the NBA player that’s… also exec produced by Russell. and his brother. Airs at 9p

SATURDAY

NBC SNL - Rami Malek and Young Thug

DC FanDome (Aka DC COMICScon) - Word is WB unveils “The Batman” trailer, perhaps a look at “Black Adam”? Starts at 1p EST - Stream it here if ya like

SUNDAY

New “60 Minutes” at 7p on CBS

NBC SNF is PITTSBURGH vs SEATTLE at 8p

HBO “Succession” - Season 3 premiere at 9p

AMC “Fear the Walking Dead” - Season 7 premiere at 8p

STARZ “Hightown” - Season 2 premiere at 9p

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🎥 TRAILER HOUSE

AMAZON PRIME “The Tender Bar” trailer. Batman directs Batman, as Ben Affleck stars alongside Tye Sheridan in this coming-of-age in a Long Island bar story directed by George Clooney. Just me or does Affleck look a bit like Jason Bateman in the thumbnail for this trailer?? In Theaters Fri Dec 17 for a month, hits PRIME on Fri Jan 17

APPLE TV+ “Swagger” series trailer. O’Shea Jackson as a high school basketball coach of a rising 14 year-old phenom, loosely based on Kevin Durant who’s also a producer here. Great work from the APPLE TV+ marketing group as per usual 👏. Premieres Fri Oct 29.

PARAMOUNT+ “Mayor of Kingstown” trailer. Premieres Sunday November 14.

NETFLIX “Bruised” trailer. Starring and directed by Halle Berry, playing a former MMA fighter who gets a shot at redemption. Premieres on Thanksgiving, also in select theaters.

NETFLIX “Gentefied” Season 2 trailer. Premieres Wed Nov 10.

🤦‍♂️ D’OH

I mistyped the name of what I think will be my favorite new HBOMAX show - it’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls” not Secret lives.

🎧 PLAYING ME OFF

And since yesterday was a real Red-letter day for me, as I also forgot to put a song in the newsletter - I’m making today a 2fer with COLDPLAY who dropped their new album today “Music of the Spheres”. Where many song titles are just… symbols. Ah never change COLDPLAY.

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