Mornin! This is Sean McNulty and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on WEDNESDAY August 31, 2022.

Where it’s a bad year for 40something - 20something relationships… I know weird for HOLLYWOOD right?🤷‍♂️

First Zach Braff & Florence Pugh ended things earlier this year, and now Leo and 25 year-old model/actress Camila Morrone have called it quits after 4 (ish) years. I mean if those kids can’t make it… Tho wait - that means he was 43 and she was… 21 when they started dating doesn’t it? 😳

PLUS: Laura Linney is returning to BROADWAY to star in the play “Summer, 1976”, a new work from Pulitzer winner David Auburn (“Proof”) about the friendship between two OHIO women, one an iconoclastic artist & single mom, and the other a naive young housewife. Previews begin in April.

ALSO: As if you needed a reminder of the power of the global reach of NETFLIX - it was even able to overpower BAD BUNNY, as KATE BUSH’s “Running Up That Hill” was the most streamed song on SPOTIFY this Summer in the US.

• THO: NETFLIX is not as powerful as HARRY STYLES (come on now…) since “As It Was” had the top spot globally, with KATE BUSH at number 2, and BAD BUNNY’s “Me Porto Bonito” at number 3 (“I’ll behave myself” for any felling aspiring Spanish speakers).

AND: The VENICE FILM FEST begins today.

BUT: Let’s put an ol’ MTV 90s-style 10 spot on me finally not writing a newsletter tomorrow. And I hate losing money to myself so VENICE don’t you go making news on me.

IN THIS EDITION:

• NETFLIX sets their Ad biz heads with 2 execs hitting the eject button from SNAP

• Nic Cage finally goes all A24 on us

• DISNEY makes a surprise Cricket move in INDIA

• Washington Post subscribers and digital Ad revenue taking a downturn in the post-Trump era

• Saudi LIV league buys signs the #2 golfer in the world in 9 figure deal, still no US TV deal, and more

📽 THE SILVER SCREEN

A24 sets Nic Cage to star in new movie