☀️‘Predator’ Soars, ‘Regretting You’ Phenom Grows
AMAZON setting new Reynolds pic / UNI adds to spec 🔥 / ABC picks up Bargatze game show
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, November 9, 2025.
Where with a now 2-8 record, our new QB leaving the game early today with an injury and our rising running back out for the rest of the year . . . ok, now I get my Sundays back.
Thanks, GIANTS, for at least making it interesting past the end of daylight savings time this year.
OH: MLB came back on the “Wheel O’ Gambling Scandals” this weekend. What a f’in mess, that . . . will just keep going in pro sports. Good call on ✌️💨, ESPN BET.
ALSO: When If the YOUTUBE TV / DISNEY standoff goes beyond today, YOUTUBE will begin issuing $20 credits to subscribers on their monthly bill, according to The Athletic.
PLUS: Add Olivia Rodrigo to the growing list of musicians and public figures telling DHS to stop using their work in ICE social posts. I mean, hey, they can’t all use Lee Greenwood songs. 🙄
THEN: The brewing edited Trump footage scandal at the BBC has now taken down the BBC’s Director General Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness. Davie has also endured other controversies across the pond over the past year that probably didn’t help matters.
AND: Ellen Stutzman will once again lead the WGA’s negotiations with the AMPTP for the new deal alongside negotiating committee Co-Chairs Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and John August and leadership of the WGA West and East.
As for the committee itself — members are Ali Barthwell, Yahlin Chang, Stan Chervin, Larry J. Cohen, Josh Gondelman, Phil Hay, Eric Haywood, Chris Hazzard, Melissa London Hilfers, Christopher Kyle, Molly Nussbaum, Luvh Rakhe, Shawn Ryan, Betsy Thomas, Danny Tolli, Erica Saleh, Mike Schur, Cat Vasko, Ben Watkins, Kat Wood and Lisa Zwerling.
WAKEUP BOX OFFICE POLL
Kudos to the 22% bulls! My 33% contingent were not optimistic enough . . .
🎥 THE BOX OFFICE
The really fun part about the movie business is that for all of the strategy and expert trend forecasting that goes on (yes, we remember you . . . May 2024 box office hot takes) — in the end: It’s the Movies, Stupid.
And America tells you exactly what it thinks of them every weekend — no 3-second view counts to hide behind here.
Thus, one week after the barren wasteland that was Halloween weekend 2025 — we have 2 significant greenshoots sprouting back up as we make the turn into the holiday movie season. Let’s dive into what’s afoot.